1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,220 By the time I'm finished, you would probably wish I'd started on page two, but to get to 2 00:00:10,220 --> 00:00:13,060 page two, I needed page one. 3 00:00:13,060 --> 00:00:17,180 And I had left it laying on my desk. 4 00:00:17,180 --> 00:00:20,700 So I needed page one. 5 00:00:20,700 --> 00:00:24,100 You would too, if you'd be up here looking at you, you'd be wishing, where'd page one 6 00:00:24,100 --> 00:00:25,100 go? 7 00:00:25,100 --> 00:00:26,100 Hello? 8 00:00:26,100 --> 00:00:32,440 To have your Bibles returning with me to John's Gospel, the 19th chapter. 9 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:40,240 It's good to know the man that's about to preach is human, isn't it? 10 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:45,220 Hallelujah, what a beautiful, beautiful crowd today. 11 00:00:45,220 --> 00:00:47,140 Happy Easter. 12 00:00:47,140 --> 00:00:48,140 Happy Easter. 13 00:00:48,140 --> 00:00:49,380 And truly the Lord is risen. 14 00:00:49,380 --> 00:00:51,780 He is risen indeed. 15 00:00:51,780 --> 00:00:52,780 Amen. 16 00:00:52,780 --> 00:00:59,460 Because of that, we are here, because of that, you're in this building this morning. 17 00:00:59,460 --> 00:01:06,060 I'm thankful, I'm thankful for a loving, living Savior. 18 00:01:06,060 --> 00:01:07,540 Amen. 19 00:01:07,540 --> 00:01:12,940 Chapter 19, John's Gospel, I want to read one verse to you. 20 00:01:12,940 --> 00:01:17,780 Just want to take it out of a, to coin a phrase that Brother Randy uses on Wednesday some 21 00:01:17,780 --> 00:01:18,780 time. 22 00:01:18,780 --> 00:01:24,260 Take one verse out of the pericope and you're going to, you're going to fill it in. 23 00:01:24,260 --> 00:01:28,220 Because when I read it, you're going to know what surrounds it and we'll discuss it. 24 00:01:28,220 --> 00:01:29,220 Amen. 25 00:01:29,220 --> 00:01:34,740 Look at verse 30 with me in John's Gospel. 26 00:01:34,740 --> 00:01:43,900 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, it is finished. 27 00:01:43,900 --> 00:01:50,020 And he bowed down his head and gave up the ghost. 28 00:01:50,020 --> 00:01:52,020 Simple thought this morning, a little two letter word. 29 00:01:52,020 --> 00:01:55,020 We're just going to talk a little while about it. 30 00:01:55,020 --> 00:01:56,020 It. 31 00:01:56,020 --> 00:02:05,660 I, I was reading my devotion the other morning and it just jumped out at me. 32 00:02:05,660 --> 00:02:06,940 It. 33 00:02:06,940 --> 00:02:10,100 I'll pray for you if all of you pray for me. 34 00:02:10,100 --> 00:02:13,060 Father, I love you today. 35 00:02:13,060 --> 00:02:15,020 Wow. 36 00:02:15,020 --> 00:02:16,700 You are risen indeed. 37 00:02:16,700 --> 00:02:19,940 We're here this morning to celebrate your resurrection. 38 00:02:19,940 --> 00:02:23,760 Now, father, I asked that you would help the people. 39 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:28,260 May we hear, may we receive, may we have open hearts and open minds today that we may be 40 00:02:28,260 --> 00:02:31,820 touched by your word and minister to through your spirit. 41 00:02:31,820 --> 00:02:35,060 Father, today we glorify you. 42 00:02:35,060 --> 00:02:37,260 We thank you for the gift of your son, Jesus. 43 00:02:37,260 --> 00:02:42,780 We thank you for the obedience to the father, Holy spirit, for the power to raise him up. 44 00:02:42,780 --> 00:02:47,980 We're grateful, thankful today in Jesus name. 45 00:02:47,980 --> 00:02:50,620 The church said, amen and amen. 46 00:02:50,620 --> 00:02:57,220 You can be seated as we discuss it. 47 00:02:57,220 --> 00:02:59,020 We've had a beautiful week around here. 48 00:02:59,020 --> 00:03:00,740 We had a glorious Wednesday. 49 00:03:00,740 --> 00:03:06,340 The spirit of the Lord just ushered into this place during our Bible study time and man, 50 00:03:06,340 --> 00:03:09,180 such a, such a wonderful atmosphere. 51 00:03:09,180 --> 00:03:15,580 Followed that up on Thursday with a Seder meal and again, brother Duane and sister Sandy, 52 00:03:15,580 --> 00:03:16,860 wherever you got to there they are. 53 00:03:16,860 --> 00:03:21,500 Thank you so much for leading us and at a beautiful time of worship and fellowship and 54 00:03:21,500 --> 00:03:28,060 understanding who our Lord is and all that he done in fulfilling making his way to Calvary. 55 00:03:28,060 --> 00:03:29,060 Amen. 56 00:03:29,060 --> 00:03:30,700 So grateful for that. 57 00:03:30,700 --> 00:03:33,980 John's gospel. 58 00:03:33,980 --> 00:03:40,780 John records three of those famous seven sayings from the cross here in this 19th chapter in 59 00:03:40,780 --> 00:03:43,300 verse 26 through seven. 60 00:03:43,300 --> 00:03:45,140 It is the word of compassion. 61 00:03:45,140 --> 00:03:49,740 When he looks upon his mother and looks upon his friend, John, it says, woman, behold thy 62 00:03:49,740 --> 00:03:54,300 son, behold thy mother. 63 00:03:54,300 --> 00:04:00,940 In 28 and 29, we see the word of suffering as he would cry out, I thirst and to fulfill 64 00:04:00,940 --> 00:04:07,020 the scripture that gave him the vinegar here in the text that I read to you as one probably 65 00:04:07,020 --> 00:04:14,020 most familiar verse 30, he declares a word of victory. 66 00:04:14,020 --> 00:04:22,620 It is finished, but as you read the text and you go through the week, if your mind is focused 67 00:04:22,620 --> 00:04:28,460 on everything that transpired and all that Christ has done for us and what's doing during 68 00:04:28,460 --> 00:04:32,860 that week of passion for us, you can't help but feel the tension between that word of 69 00:04:32,860 --> 00:04:37,900 suffering and the word of victory. 70 00:04:37,900 --> 00:04:47,340 On the tree of death, on that old rugged cross, we hear the water of life cry out, he thirsts. 71 00:04:47,340 --> 00:04:51,620 You can make your way to John four and you'll see where he meets that woman at the whale. 72 00:04:51,620 --> 00:04:52,620 Remember? 73 00:04:52,620 --> 00:04:56,900 And when he tells her, if you would drink of the water that I have, you'll never thirst 74 00:04:56,900 --> 00:05:00,380 again because he is the living water. 75 00:05:00,380 --> 00:05:02,460 He was the rock that followed them through the wilderness. 76 00:05:02,460 --> 00:05:03,460 Hallelujah. 77 00:05:03,460 --> 00:05:09,540 He's the fountain that never runs dry, but there he cries, I thirst. 78 00:05:09,540 --> 00:05:15,580 The word of suffering, however, was not the last proclamation from Calvary. 79 00:05:15,580 --> 00:05:17,100 Well glory. 80 00:05:17,100 --> 00:05:21,800 The last proclamation from Calvary was a victorious cry. 81 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:23,920 It wasn't a mumble. 82 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:26,740 It wasn't a barely heard utterance. 83 00:05:26,740 --> 00:05:28,300 He shouted it out. 84 00:05:28,300 --> 00:05:32,780 It is finished. 85 00:05:32,780 --> 00:05:36,540 The declaration of victory from Calvary's hill. 86 00:05:36,540 --> 00:05:38,620 It is finished. 87 00:05:38,620 --> 00:05:40,580 He didn't say I'm finished. 88 00:05:40,580 --> 00:05:42,860 Oh, he said it's finished. 89 00:05:42,860 --> 00:05:46,460 My God, I feel my health going to show up this morning. 90 00:05:46,460 --> 00:05:49,260 He said it is finished. 91 00:05:49,260 --> 00:05:54,300 When you hear that declaration, it's not a concession from a defeated man. 92 00:05:54,300 --> 00:05:57,660 It's not a resignation of a doomed man either. 93 00:05:57,660 --> 00:06:04,660 Neither is it the relief of a dying man, but it's a man who is fulfilling a mission in 94 00:06:04,660 --> 00:06:09,180 that riddled body that they had nailed to that old rugged cross. 95 00:06:09,180 --> 00:06:12,260 The body that had been beaten beyond recognition. 96 00:06:12,260 --> 00:06:17,380 A face that was swollen whose eyes were merely slit and the beard that was on his face had 97 00:06:17,380 --> 00:06:19,540 been plucked by every hair. 98 00:06:19,540 --> 00:06:20,820 He had been spit on. 99 00:06:20,820 --> 00:06:22,000 He had been mocked. 100 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,220 They had thrown stones, they had thrown insults. 101 00:06:25,220 --> 00:06:28,820 They had beat him the 39 stripes upon his back. 102 00:06:28,820 --> 00:06:31,820 Now he's made his way down that Via de la Rosa. 103 00:06:31,820 --> 00:06:33,180 He has been nailed. 104 00:06:33,180 --> 00:06:34,900 He has been lifted. 105 00:06:34,900 --> 00:06:40,060 Never forget that this victorious cry was already declared when he said I must be lifted 106 00:06:40,060 --> 00:06:41,060 up. 107 00:06:41,060 --> 00:06:42,780 The son of man must be lifted up. 108 00:06:42,780 --> 00:06:47,260 He declared if I be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto me. 109 00:06:47,260 --> 00:06:53,100 You see it's this declaration of victory that he's proclaiming on Calvary's Hill. 110 00:06:53,100 --> 00:06:55,780 It is finished. 111 00:06:55,780 --> 00:06:57,700 Because he knows what follows Calvary. 112 00:06:57,700 --> 00:06:58,700 Amen. 113 00:06:58,700 --> 00:07:02,620 How many of you this morning know what follows Calvary? 114 00:07:02,620 --> 00:07:05,340 That's the reason I'm so excited this morning. 115 00:07:05,340 --> 00:07:07,380 Because I know what it was. 116 00:07:07,380 --> 00:07:10,780 When I begin to read that devotion this week, my heart began to stir. 117 00:07:10,780 --> 00:07:13,980 The Lord said just tell them what it really was. 118 00:07:13,980 --> 00:07:18,420 My Lord, it was the sin burden that you and I came into this world with. 119 00:07:18,420 --> 00:07:19,940 That's what it was. 120 00:07:19,940 --> 00:07:22,220 It was the account that was to be paid. 121 00:07:22,220 --> 00:07:24,380 It was the price that was to be supplied. 122 00:07:24,380 --> 00:07:31,460 It was the blood to purify every sin that we commit when we confess to him and ask the 123 00:07:31,460 --> 00:07:33,580 application of forgiveness. 124 00:07:33,580 --> 00:07:34,580 It is that. 125 00:07:34,580 --> 00:07:35,580 That's what it is. 126 00:07:35,580 --> 00:07:39,340 Oh, I didn't realize the verses of that song. 127 00:07:39,340 --> 00:07:43,900 It soothes my... It soothes my God. 128 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:47,260 It drives away all my... That's what it does. 129 00:07:47,260 --> 00:07:49,740 It is the blood that was poured out. 130 00:07:49,740 --> 00:07:52,340 It was not the blood of the Paschal Lamb. 131 00:07:52,340 --> 00:07:57,140 It was not the blood placed upon the head of the scapegoat and driven outside the city 132 00:07:57,140 --> 00:08:03,820 whereby he did accomplish scripture when he was led outside and crucified on Galgotha. 133 00:08:03,820 --> 00:08:11,060 It is the price that had to be paid, but yet it is the hope of all humanity. 134 00:08:11,060 --> 00:08:16,980 Well, it's the victor's triumphal shout. 135 00:08:16,980 --> 00:08:19,580 It is finished. 136 00:08:19,580 --> 00:08:25,660 John 17 verse four, Jesus prayed, I have glorified thee on the earth. 137 00:08:25,660 --> 00:08:27,900 Listen to what he says. 138 00:08:27,900 --> 00:08:31,880 I have finished the work thou gave me to do. 139 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:38,940 At the age of 33, he's declaring it is finished, where the most of us will declare it is yet 140 00:08:38,940 --> 00:08:40,460 just the beginning. 141 00:08:40,460 --> 00:08:47,420 But he is finishing the work that the Father had sent him to do, and it is done. 142 00:08:47,420 --> 00:08:51,020 But it's more than just the end of a journey. 143 00:08:51,020 --> 00:08:56,500 It's about the completion of his mandated mission, because you see, it brought about 144 00:08:56,500 --> 00:08:57,500 salvation. 145 00:08:57,500 --> 00:09:03,100 If you remember, it is this, the declaration in John 1,9, behold, the Lamb of God which 146 00:09:03,100 --> 00:09:06,220 takes away the sin of the world. 147 00:09:06,220 --> 00:09:07,860 That's what it is. 148 00:09:07,860 --> 00:09:09,120 It was a price. 149 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,120 It was a mandated price. 150 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:16,020 There had to be, according to the word of God, without the shedding of blood, there 151 00:09:16,020 --> 00:09:20,660 is no remission of sin. 152 00:09:20,660 --> 00:09:23,300 What shedding, you say, pastor? 153 00:09:23,300 --> 00:09:29,260 The adult human body contains about 3.5 liters of blood. 154 00:09:29,260 --> 00:09:36,900 From the whipping post to the spirit calvary, every drop was spilled, and it took every 155 00:09:36,900 --> 00:09:44,100 drop to go into the holiest of holies, not made with hands, but to be taken into that 156 00:09:44,100 --> 00:09:49,740 which the example came from, into the holy place, into the heavens, whereby his blood 157 00:09:49,740 --> 00:09:51,620 was applied one time. 158 00:09:51,620 --> 00:09:52,620 Hallelujah. 159 00:09:52,620 --> 00:09:55,740 One time, because it was sufficient. 160 00:09:55,740 --> 00:09:57,820 It was sufficient. 161 00:09:57,820 --> 00:10:02,020 Not only was it finished, but it was sufficient. 162 00:10:02,020 --> 00:10:07,460 The author of Hebrews says, whereby the blood of goats and bulls are no longer necessary 163 00:10:07,460 --> 00:10:13,500 because he, for one time, entered in and made one offering, and he applied his blood upon 164 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:15,500 the mercy seat of heaven. 165 00:10:15,500 --> 00:10:19,900 It is finished. 166 00:10:19,900 --> 00:10:29,540 Matthew 1,21, the angel told Joseph concerning Mary, the mother of Christ, she shall bring 167 00:10:29,540 --> 00:10:36,900 forth a son that shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins. 168 00:10:36,900 --> 00:10:41,860 Jesus was born to die. 169 00:10:41,860 --> 00:10:49,060 The accomplishment of his death was the purpose of his life. 170 00:10:49,060 --> 00:10:55,180 The accomplishment of his death was the purpose of his life. 171 00:10:55,180 --> 00:10:57,540 But I dare, I'm not going to leave you at Calvary. 172 00:10:57,540 --> 00:10:59,520 We're going somewhere. 173 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:01,940 We're going somewhere this morning. 174 00:11:01,940 --> 00:11:04,060 It had to be finished. 175 00:11:04,060 --> 00:11:08,140 The price had to be paid so that you and I, there had to be a bridge paved. 176 00:11:08,140 --> 00:11:14,060 There had to be a highway paved, and the highway to God's grace was paid with the blood of 177 00:11:14,060 --> 00:11:15,380 the sinless lamb. 178 00:11:15,380 --> 00:11:16,380 Hallelujah. 179 00:11:16,380 --> 00:11:21,060 It was paid with what John declared, to be the lamb of God, which takes away those sins 180 00:11:21,060 --> 00:11:22,060 of the world. 181 00:11:22,060 --> 00:11:26,820 It was paid with his precious blood, thereby making access for you and I to enter into 182 00:11:26,820 --> 00:11:29,900 peace with the heavenly father. 183 00:11:29,900 --> 00:11:37,900 Without it, there is no peace. 184 00:11:37,900 --> 00:11:44,340 Warren Wiersby wrote, since salvation is a finished work, we dare not add anything to 185 00:11:44,340 --> 00:11:50,180 it or take anything from it. 186 00:11:50,180 --> 00:11:55,220 This is the message of the six work and the word from the cross. 187 00:11:55,220 --> 00:12:01,580 Things are made right with God only by the finished work of Christ at the cross. 188 00:12:01,580 --> 00:12:08,700 Jesus saves people completely, exclusively, and eternally. 189 00:12:08,700 --> 00:12:11,080 When he declared, it is finished. 190 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:15,900 We understand that whereby one man by through Adam's sin came unto all men. 191 00:12:15,900 --> 00:12:19,540 You need to take an account today through the second man, Adam. 192 00:12:19,540 --> 00:12:22,540 The sin of humanity is taken away. 193 00:12:22,540 --> 00:12:26,900 And I'm here to tell you, you must make your way to the foot of Calvary's hill where the 194 00:12:26,900 --> 00:12:28,340 blood still flows. 195 00:12:28,340 --> 00:12:30,780 My God, for redemption. 196 00:12:30,780 --> 00:12:32,700 It is the price of redemption. 197 00:12:32,700 --> 00:12:36,260 That's what we learned Thursday night about the Passover meal. 198 00:12:36,260 --> 00:12:38,500 That's what we learned about the Seder meal. 199 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:44,300 It was about the price of redemption and that Christ was the price and he willingly paid 200 00:12:44,300 --> 00:12:48,420 the price for your and my wretchedness and our sin. 201 00:12:48,420 --> 00:12:53,180 It's his blood applied to our sinful life. 202 00:12:53,180 --> 00:12:54,820 The price of redemption. 203 00:12:54,820 --> 00:12:56,980 A lot of people don't worry about redemption. 204 00:12:56,980 --> 00:12:57,980 They don't worry about it. 205 00:12:57,980 --> 00:12:59,180 They go through life doing their thing. 206 00:12:59,180 --> 00:13:08,380 But I'm here to remind you this morning, it is finished and you must become part of it. 207 00:13:08,380 --> 00:13:25,700 I heard texts this morning, Jesus had received that vinegar, that sour, that ruined, sopped 208 00:13:25,700 --> 00:13:31,300 in a sponge like clove of hyssop and shoved in his face. 209 00:13:31,300 --> 00:13:37,000 You think that Roman soldier eased that up there for him to try to get a little moisture 210 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:38,000 in his mouth? 211 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:39,000 No. 212 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:44,940 I guarantee you with all the venom within him, he just sopped it in dirt and grit and 213 00:13:44,940 --> 00:13:52,820 in that old vinegar and shoved it in our Savior's face so that the scripture could be fulfilled. 214 00:13:52,820 --> 00:13:55,340 He fulfilled it all. 215 00:13:55,340 --> 00:13:58,500 He declared it is finished. 216 00:13:58,500 --> 00:14:05,980 Every act of the Old Testament, every symbol, every type, every shadows pointing to Calvary, 217 00:14:05,980 --> 00:14:09,980 pointing to the moment in which we have mourned this Friday. 218 00:14:09,980 --> 00:14:12,060 Mourned on Friday. 219 00:14:12,060 --> 00:14:13,580 I had a heavy heart Friday. 220 00:14:13,580 --> 00:14:17,700 I looked over at Sister Kathy as we're sitting in the living room. 221 00:14:17,700 --> 00:14:23,180 Being the time difference, I said, now the stone has been rolled and the seal has been 222 00:14:23,180 --> 00:14:27,760 placed and the guards are standing at attention. 223 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,820 But it doesn't matter how large the stone. 224 00:14:30,820 --> 00:14:33,260 It didn't matter if they had to put a garrison there. 225 00:14:33,260 --> 00:14:37,460 It didn't matter whose seal was upon that stone. 226 00:14:37,460 --> 00:14:42,300 There was a third day approaching and it was about to be validated. 227 00:14:42,300 --> 00:14:47,900 The finished work of Christ was about to be validated through the power of the resurrection 228 00:14:47,900 --> 00:14:54,620 on that first day of the week. 229 00:14:54,620 --> 00:15:05,660 The Lord's good. 230 00:15:05,660 --> 00:15:07,740 That's all I know. 231 00:15:07,740 --> 00:15:08,980 That's all I know this morning. 232 00:15:08,980 --> 00:15:16,420 He is good. 233 00:15:16,420 --> 00:15:19,980 That Greek word, which I've been practicing for two days and I still can't get it in my 234 00:15:19,980 --> 00:15:22,140 head to pronounce. 235 00:15:22,140 --> 00:15:29,420 It's a one word for a three word phrase. 236 00:15:29,420 --> 00:15:32,360 To tell us day. 237 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:39,700 To tell us day is the Greek for it is finished. 238 00:15:39,700 --> 00:15:47,180 This phrase, the Prince of Preachers, Charles Spurgeon wrote, it would need all the other 239 00:15:47,180 --> 00:15:57,060 words that ever were spoken or even can be spoke to explain this one word. 240 00:15:57,060 --> 00:15:59,320 It is altogether immeasurable. 241 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:00,940 It is high. 242 00:16:00,940 --> 00:16:02,940 I cannot attain to it. 243 00:16:02,940 --> 00:16:07,820 It is deep. 244 00:16:07,820 --> 00:16:13,180 I cannot fathom it. 245 00:16:13,180 --> 00:16:17,740 I've been tore up by it this week. 246 00:16:17,740 --> 00:16:20,380 I can't fathom it. 247 00:16:20,380 --> 00:16:31,220 To tell us day means to finish a task, to complete an assignment, to accomplish a goal 248 00:16:31,220 --> 00:16:33,300 for servants. 249 00:16:33,300 --> 00:16:38,900 Servants would use this term when they'd completed their obligatory duties and commands from 250 00:16:38,900 --> 00:16:40,900 their masters. 251 00:16:40,900 --> 00:16:46,260 Servants use this term when a work of art was completed and finished. 252 00:16:46,260 --> 00:16:52,460 Warriors use this term after they prevailed in battle. 253 00:16:52,460 --> 00:16:55,180 My, my, my. 254 00:16:55,180 --> 00:17:03,020 What we see is the captain of the Lord's host who had entered the greatest battle of all 255 00:17:03,020 --> 00:17:06,580 the ages and the warrior of all warriors. 256 00:17:06,580 --> 00:17:09,020 I'm not talking about a wimp of humanity. 257 00:17:09,020 --> 00:17:16,140 I'm talking about God Himself suspended between the earth and the skies and there hung doing 258 00:17:16,140 --> 00:17:17,940 battle for you and I. 259 00:17:17,940 --> 00:17:24,300 And there the great warrior of all mankind declared the task has been completed. 260 00:17:24,300 --> 00:17:36,820 The mission has been fulfilled and the devil is doomed. 261 00:17:36,820 --> 00:17:50,660 The warrior's declaration, it is the word that you use after you graduate from college. 262 00:17:50,660 --> 00:17:56,620 My God, it's done. 263 00:17:56,620 --> 00:17:59,660 It's the word you use after crossing the finish line of a marathon. 264 00:17:59,660 --> 00:18:01,500 I've been there, my Lord. 265 00:18:01,500 --> 00:18:04,260 It is finished. 266 00:18:04,260 --> 00:18:08,540 About to be begun again. 267 00:18:08,540 --> 00:18:09,540 Got that t-shirt. 268 00:18:09,540 --> 00:18:13,940 Don't care if I ever see another one. 269 00:18:13,940 --> 00:18:18,220 It's the word used after paying off credit card debt. 270 00:18:18,220 --> 00:18:23,700 It's the word we should have used when we burnt the note on this church to Telestein. 271 00:18:23,700 --> 00:18:25,460 It's done. 272 00:18:25,460 --> 00:18:30,260 It's the word that was written on the legal document when the debt was paid. 273 00:18:30,260 --> 00:18:37,580 Oh, it is written and stamped on the heart of all of us who have been to Calvary. 274 00:18:37,580 --> 00:18:42,020 It is stamped there through the precious inked blood of Calvary's heel. 275 00:18:42,020 --> 00:18:45,380 It is there for the lamb to be displayed upon our heart. 276 00:18:45,380 --> 00:18:51,500 Is there any wonder why there was the requirement of the Passover lamb's blood to be on the 277 00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:53,660 little and on the doorpost? 278 00:18:53,660 --> 00:18:55,180 Because it was finished. 279 00:18:55,180 --> 00:19:00,820 Oh, my Lord, he took his blood and he applied it for each and every one of us. 280 00:19:00,820 --> 00:19:02,380 He is that lamb. 281 00:19:02,380 --> 00:19:09,420 His blood is what seals our great salvation. 282 00:19:09,420 --> 00:19:15,100 It never loses its power. 283 00:19:15,100 --> 00:19:23,460 The ability of his blood to enter into our lives paid in full. 284 00:19:23,460 --> 00:19:29,460 We're not saying that God is holy and we're not. 285 00:19:29,460 --> 00:19:33,820 God demands perfect righteousness and we have none. 286 00:19:33,820 --> 00:19:37,500 All of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 287 00:19:37,500 --> 00:19:40,220 Romans 3.23. 288 00:19:40,220 --> 00:19:47,100 Good intentions, good efforts and good works cannot pay the sin debt. 289 00:19:47,100 --> 00:19:51,100 Doesn't matter how great your intentions are, doesn't matter how great a person you try 290 00:19:51,100 --> 00:19:58,100 to be, your intentions will never be good enough and your efforts will not suffice. 291 00:19:58,100 --> 00:20:03,140 It takes the blood of Jesus on the repentant heart written to Telestai. 292 00:20:03,140 --> 00:20:04,500 It is finished. 293 00:20:04,500 --> 00:20:06,180 It is paid in full. 294 00:20:06,180 --> 00:20:07,600 What is that price, pastor? 295 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:09,540 It's the price greater than pearl. 296 00:20:09,540 --> 00:20:11,060 Oh, amen. 297 00:20:11,060 --> 00:20:13,300 It's far greater than rubies. 298 00:20:13,300 --> 00:20:16,860 Heaven was bankrupt for your wretchedness and mine. 299 00:20:16,860 --> 00:20:23,060 Heaven had poured out all of the royal diadem of glory so that you and I could be redeemed. 300 00:20:23,060 --> 00:20:26,260 We see that redemptive work on Calvary's Hill. 301 00:20:26,260 --> 00:20:28,260 We saw it at the whipping post. 302 00:20:28,260 --> 00:20:33,860 We see it at every station of the Via De La Rosa as he stumbles his way weak in the flesh 303 00:20:33,860 --> 00:20:36,820 but strong and mighty in his spirit. 304 00:20:36,820 --> 00:20:39,260 His spirit never diminished from the task. 305 00:20:39,260 --> 00:20:45,420 Once he surrendered in Gethsemane to the Father's will, victory was his shield already. 306 00:20:45,420 --> 00:20:49,700 Yay! 307 00:20:49,700 --> 00:20:56,020 No wonder the scripture declared that your flesh is weak. 308 00:20:56,020 --> 00:21:06,380 His flesh was riddled and beaten but his spirit was striving to declare it is finished. 309 00:21:06,380 --> 00:21:11,100 Oh, my, my, my. 310 00:21:11,100 --> 00:21:16,380 We're still making our way to the tomb. 311 00:21:16,380 --> 00:21:22,380 We hold the debt of songwriter Penn that we could not pay. 312 00:21:22,380 --> 00:21:30,220 Yet he paid the debt that he did not owe. 313 00:21:30,220 --> 00:21:40,860 Your and my sin debt which required blood to forgive. 314 00:21:40,860 --> 00:21:47,780 No longer, I told you, as the author of Hebrews Penn, no longer will the blood of goats and 315 00:21:47,780 --> 00:21:50,780 bulls suffice. 316 00:21:50,780 --> 00:22:02,700 It would take his own blood, the begotten, the only begotten, not created, not made, 317 00:22:02,700 --> 00:22:08,420 begotten his blood. 318 00:22:08,420 --> 00:22:16,060 For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God, are you hearing me? 319 00:22:16,060 --> 00:22:24,980 The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 320 00:22:24,980 --> 00:22:33,140 When you stop to think about eternal life, what sin is keeping you from its acquisition? 321 00:22:33,140 --> 00:22:40,220 What sin is keeping you from acquiring the seal? 322 00:22:40,220 --> 00:22:43,860 It is finished. 323 00:22:43,860 --> 00:22:51,060 What is keeping you from accepting the sacrifice of his blood? 324 00:22:51,060 --> 00:22:54,100 There's only a little answer for that. 325 00:22:54,100 --> 00:23:03,060 It does not matter what sin it is. 326 00:23:03,060 --> 00:23:12,860 It doesn't matter whether it be adultery, abortion, bribery, disobedience, whether it's 327 00:23:12,860 --> 00:23:21,740 robbery, homosexuality, murder, pride, slothfulness, laziness, gluttony. 328 00:23:21,740 --> 00:23:31,780 It doesn't matter which one because he declared it is finished. 329 00:23:31,780 --> 00:23:37,620 It is done. 330 00:23:37,620 --> 00:23:39,180 It is paid for. 331 00:23:39,180 --> 00:23:42,180 It is over. 332 00:23:42,180 --> 00:23:45,420 Oh my, my, my. 333 00:23:45,420 --> 00:23:49,420 Some of us that's been in some of these ought to be shouting about right now. 334 00:23:49,420 --> 00:23:51,340 Hello? 335 00:23:51,340 --> 00:23:56,540 Some of us adulterers and fornicators ought to be shouting hallelujah right now. 336 00:23:56,540 --> 00:23:58,500 Hello? 337 00:23:58,500 --> 00:24:06,260 Some of us that's been stamped, it is finished. 338 00:24:06,260 --> 00:24:13,460 Oh Lord. 339 00:24:13,460 --> 00:24:20,140 And that list of sin, if yours was left out, well just put it there. 340 00:24:20,140 --> 00:24:23,140 Put it in place. 341 00:24:23,140 --> 00:24:26,780 It is finished. 342 00:24:26,780 --> 00:24:31,380 Every first scripture of the Bible says in the beginning God created the heavens and 343 00:24:31,380 --> 00:24:32,380 the earth. 344 00:24:32,380 --> 00:24:39,660 Genesis 2, 1 and 2 says thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host 345 00:24:39,660 --> 00:24:46,460 of them and on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and he rested on the 346 00:24:46,460 --> 00:24:52,380 seventh day from all his work that he had made. 347 00:24:52,380 --> 00:25:00,340 The same God who finished the work of creation in skies in six days finished the work of 348 00:25:00,340 --> 00:25:06,020 redemption in about six hours. 349 00:25:06,020 --> 00:25:13,620 In about six hours. 350 00:25:13,620 --> 00:25:21,580 Billy Graham once said, if Christ had come to the earth and not died, it would have been 351 00:25:21,580 --> 00:25:27,580 pointless. 352 00:25:27,580 --> 00:25:35,980 If he had died and not resurrected, it would have been powerless. 353 00:25:35,980 --> 00:25:44,380 And my spirit was stirred immediately to which I added and without the resurrection our future, 354 00:25:44,380 --> 00:25:50,140 it would be hopeless. 355 00:25:50,140 --> 00:25:56,540 But he did. 356 00:25:56,540 --> 00:25:59,140 So it wasn't pointless. 357 00:25:59,140 --> 00:26:02,020 He wasn't powerless. 358 00:26:02,020 --> 00:26:06,900 And I'm not hopeless because it is finished. 359 00:26:06,900 --> 00:26:09,300 My sins are redeemed. 360 00:26:09,300 --> 00:26:13,620 The old songwriter said, well I am redeemed by love divine. 361 00:26:13,620 --> 00:26:16,980 Glory, glory, Christ is mine. 362 00:26:16,980 --> 00:26:19,340 All to him I now resign. 363 00:26:19,340 --> 00:26:24,020 For I have been redeemed. 364 00:26:24,020 --> 00:26:26,020 Redeemed. 365 00:26:26,020 --> 00:26:35,620 It is finished. 366 00:26:35,620 --> 00:26:43,100 Our debt has been paid. 367 00:26:43,100 --> 00:26:54,300 But you must, you must make your way to receive the receipt. 368 00:26:54,300 --> 00:27:04,140 You, all of us have to make our way. 369 00:27:04,140 --> 00:27:11,780 For by grace are we saved. 370 00:27:11,780 --> 00:27:17,500 Paul went through a litany of sins one day and he said, and such were some of you. 371 00:27:17,500 --> 00:27:20,980 I like that word were. 372 00:27:20,980 --> 00:27:22,980 For such were some of us. 373 00:27:22,980 --> 00:27:38,180 But the Telestah has been paid in full. 374 00:27:38,180 --> 00:27:51,660 John said in Revelation 21, I saw a new city coming down out of heaven, the New Jerusalem. 375 00:27:51,660 --> 00:27:57,740 Because Christ has risen, our hope is not in vain. 376 00:27:57,740 --> 00:28:05,220 The apostle Paul penned it so well, he declared if Christ be not risen, then is our faith 377 00:28:05,220 --> 00:28:08,260 in vain. 378 00:28:08,260 --> 00:28:12,460 But he has risen. 379 00:28:12,460 --> 00:28:17,860 So many in this world look for logical and linear proof of his resurrection. 380 00:28:17,860 --> 00:28:25,500 Josephus the historian validated it as he recorded the accounts of the days before he. 381 00:28:25,500 --> 00:28:31,460 When you go back and look at all of the lives of the disciples, do you really believe that 382 00:28:31,460 --> 00:28:37,580 they would allow themselves to be crucified for a hoax? 383 00:28:37,580 --> 00:28:42,620 Do you think Peter would have said, don't crucify me, you're outside up, but hang me 384 00:28:42,620 --> 00:28:43,740 upside down. 385 00:28:43,740 --> 00:28:52,020 I'm not even worthy to die the same death in which he died. 386 00:28:52,020 --> 00:28:59,580 If it was not finished and he had not risen, do you think Paul would have turned had he 387 00:28:59,580 --> 00:29:10,300 not seen the risen Lord and hear the voice of him, why kick us now against the pricks? 388 00:29:10,300 --> 00:29:19,300 Get over there, there's a man coming to lay his hand on you. 389 00:29:19,300 --> 00:29:25,700 You think John would have went through the boiling, seething pot of oil? 390 00:29:25,700 --> 00:29:31,620 Perhaps on his life yet to be ostracized on Patmos, do you think he made it up the day 391 00:29:31,620 --> 00:29:36,340 that he had prayed into the spirit and he heard a voice behind him and he turned to 392 00:29:36,340 --> 00:29:39,980 see the risen Lord? 393 00:29:39,980 --> 00:29:44,940 Do you think they would have endured that for a hoax? 394 00:29:44,940 --> 00:29:48,580 No, no, no, no. 395 00:29:48,580 --> 00:29:52,420 Do you think they would have let themselves be subject to that when they could have just 396 00:29:52,420 --> 00:29:53,540 give us a, well, you're right. 397 00:29:53,540 --> 00:29:54,580 You caught us. 398 00:29:54,580 --> 00:29:55,580 We tried. 399 00:29:55,580 --> 00:29:58,580 We made an attempt. 400 00:29:58,580 --> 00:30:04,540 No, no, they saw him. 401 00:30:04,540 --> 00:30:14,060 Over 500 on one occasion witnessed the risen Lord. 402 00:30:14,060 --> 00:30:19,020 It is finished. 403 00:30:19,020 --> 00:30:24,080 His grace in place of our sin. 404 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:32,220 His blood on behalf of our powerlessness, fate. 405 00:30:32,220 --> 00:30:37,020 There's power in his sacrifice. 406 00:30:37,020 --> 00:30:43,740 Just validated by his resurrection. 407 00:30:43,740 --> 00:30:49,460 That's the reason our celebration isn't only the cross. 408 00:30:49,460 --> 00:30:53,980 It can't only be the cross. 409 00:30:53,980 --> 00:30:58,700 Go to your jeweler and have them make you a tomb with a stone rolled by it and start 410 00:30:58,700 --> 00:31:08,660 wearing that. 411 00:31:08,660 --> 00:31:18,100 The cross is a reminder of the it, but the resurrection, the empty tomb is the icon of 412 00:31:18,100 --> 00:31:24,620 our hope and our faith and the power of our living because he lives. 413 00:31:24,620 --> 00:31:26,100 Stand with me this morning. 414 00:31:26,100 --> 00:31:32,700 Father, I love you today. 415 00:31:32,700 --> 00:31:42,380 So thankful, so, so thankful today for Calvary. 416 00:31:42,380 --> 00:31:49,860 So grateful this morning for a touch of grace and strength. 417 00:31:49,860 --> 00:31:54,820 So, so mindful of what you did for us. 418 00:31:54,820 --> 00:32:00,140 Let alone us, what you did for me. 419 00:32:00,140 --> 00:32:01,460 What you did for me, Lord. 420 00:32:01,460 --> 00:32:11,860 You died for me. 421 00:32:11,860 --> 00:32:19,860 And my reasonable service is only that I serve you. 422 00:32:19,860 --> 00:32:29,180 That I remain separated from the sin for which you saved me from. 423 00:32:29,180 --> 00:32:39,220 That the cloak of righteousness that you apply, that I set it not aside for the will of my 424 00:32:39,220 --> 00:32:43,380 own flesh. 425 00:32:43,380 --> 00:32:46,980 It. 426 00:32:46,980 --> 00:32:50,260 It. 427 00:32:50,260 --> 00:32:57,060 What is it? 428 00:32:57,060 --> 00:33:03,620 What is it that's keeping you from service? 429 00:33:03,620 --> 00:33:11,700 What is it that keeps you at Bed Springs Church on Sunday instead of gathering with the congregation 430 00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:14,740 in the assembly to worship him? 431 00:33:14,740 --> 00:33:15,740 What is it? 432 00:33:15,740 --> 00:33:18,740 Slothfulness, laziness, neglect. 433 00:33:18,740 --> 00:33:23,460 So you're getting awful hard now, Pastor. 434 00:33:23,460 --> 00:33:29,840 Well, we're hopeless without it. 435 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:31,780 Hopeless without it. 436 00:33:31,780 --> 00:33:38,900 Life before you at best is going to be just simply miserable without Christ. 437 00:33:38,900 --> 00:33:45,220 But with him, it becomes more bearable. 438 00:33:45,220 --> 00:33:56,340 Life because his grace is the sufficiency that applies to our weakness. 439 00:33:56,340 --> 00:33:57,340 What does that mean? 440 00:33:57,340 --> 00:34:02,020 You're no longer able, he enables you. 441 00:34:02,020 --> 00:34:06,980 Father, thank you so much. 442 00:34:06,980 --> 00:34:16,980 I pray for those in the room today. 443 00:34:16,980 --> 00:34:22,220 Speak to hearts and minds. 444 00:34:22,220 --> 00:34:27,060 There are those here lost without you. 445 00:34:27,060 --> 00:34:35,300 Each spirit of God, draw them to Calvary's cleansing flow. 446 00:34:35,300 --> 00:34:40,940 There be those here lukewarm and indifferent. 447 00:34:40,940 --> 00:34:49,400 As it were, straddling the fence in life. 448 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,820 Speak to those hearts. 449 00:34:52,820 --> 00:35:04,180 May we be cognitive of it and that the price has been paid for us. 450 00:35:04,180 --> 00:35:27,860 May we hear the echo of the conquering warrior declare, it is finished.