WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.980 Together we're on a series in the gospel of Mark. 00:00:02.980 --> 00:00:05.820 In this week and next week are the last two parts of the series. 00:00:06.180 --> 00:00:08.570 After that, we're going to go into a series called The Core. 00:00:08.920 --> 00:00:15.940 And if you're new to Alpine Bible Church, those be especially important for you because we're going to go through four weeks of shaping the identity of what our church 00:00:15.940 --> 00:00:16.620 is about. 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:24.080 If you've been a part of ABC for awhile, it's good for us just to refocus our minds on what God has brought us together here to accomplish as 00:00:24.080 --> 00:00:26.120 a church family and what he desires for our lives. 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:32.540 And so I would encourage you to be a part of that in the weeks ahead as we look forward to what God has in store for us. 00:00:32.700 --> 00:00:40.060 But today we're talking about something significant that shapes our identity as a church family in the crucifix 00:00:40.060 --> 00:00:40.880 of Christ. 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:44.860 And I just want to be honest in the beginning and saying, I have thought about this. 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:47.160 I have gone through this text over and over. 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:54.640 I've spent time just meditating on this passage and my heart knows no matter what I say this morning is 00:00:54.640 --> 00:01:00.980 going to grossly under describe what Jesus has done for you in this passage. 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:09.380 Whatever degree you've ever been loved, been forgiven, experienced grace, mercy, all of that, there is no deeper place 00:01:09.380 --> 00:01:14.040 that you can experience it than the cross of Christ. 00:01:14.080 --> 00:01:21.160 And so I feel like no matter how descriptive and imaginative I make this passage this morning, it's never going to do justice in what Jesus has done 00:01:21.700 --> 00:01:22.220 for us. 00:01:22.360 --> 00:01:26.850 The only way that truly happens, I think is the Spirit of God just illuminates it in our heart. 00:01:27.620 --> 00:01:34.780 And so I hope all of this passage that the thing that we find most inclined to do is really just worship the Lord in spirit and 00:01:34.780 --> 00:01:35.180 truth. 00:01:36.360 --> 00:01:43.480 And we know in following the progression, if you've been with us over the last few weeks and following the progression that Jesus has gone into Jerusalem and he's about to meet 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:45.080 the end of his life. 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:53.860 And I'm just going to tell you, if you ever prone to lie in your life, the time to just let the cat out of the bag is when it's going to cost 00:01:53.860 --> 00:01:54.460 you. 00:01:54.980 --> 00:02:05.400 I don't want you to lie ever, but if you do, if 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:06.220 it's really going to be painful, then just stop. 00:02:06.220 --> 00:02:06.220 Okay? 00:02:06.220 --> 00:02:09.169 With Jesus, here he is at the end of his life, it is apparent that he is about to give up his life in these final moments. 00:02:09.340 --> 00:02:16.460 So Jesus, if you're ever going to let the cat, the bag tell us you've just been leading us astray, that you are not who you're claiming to be now is the time 00:02:16.460 --> 00:02:20.240 to do it, but rather than do that, Jesus doubles down on his identity. 00:02:20.260 --> 00:02:25.420 In fact, I wouldn't say it just doubles down, he more triples down in who he is. 00:02:25.620 --> 00:02:27.880 Mark chapter 15 is we're going to look at the majority of that. 00:02:27.880 --> 00:02:31.020 We're actually going to pick up at the end of chapter 14. 00:02:31.020 --> 00:02:35.380 But at the end of 14 Jesus starts to grab these identities of who he is. 00:02:35.380 --> 00:02:42.420 Again, he uses these titles going to the cross for us to just double down on the thought of who he is and why he's coming to this world. 00:02:43.660 --> 00:02:49.880 So in Mark 14:61 you see these opening comments coming from the high priest. 00:02:49.940 --> 00:02:54.300 Right at this passage of scripture where Jesus has been betrayed by Judas. 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:56.220 He was captured in the garden of Gethsemane. 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:59.280 He's brought before the religious leaders and he's placed on trial. 00:02:59.860 --> 00:03:06.920 And it says this, but he kept silent and did not answer and the high priest was questioning him and saying to him, are you the 00:03:06.920 --> 00:03:08.600 Christ, the son of the blessed one? 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:11.180 And Jesus said, I am. 00:03:12.060 --> 00:03:18.160 And you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power and coming with the clouds of have him tearing his clothes. 00:03:18.420 --> 00:03:21.850 The high priest said, what further need do we have of witnesses? 00:03:22.300 --> 00:03:23.320 You have heard the blasphemy. 00:03:23.580 --> 00:03:24.760 How does it seem to you? 00:03:24.760 --> 00:03:28.060 And they all condemned him to be deserving of death. 00:03:29.580 --> 00:03:34.540 During Jesus's day it was customary when there was blasphemy that they would tear the robes in demonstration of this. 00:03:34.600 --> 00:03:38.640 It is a great way to make your mama mad about the new clothes she just bought you, that you just ripped up. 00:03:38.720 --> 00:03:42.970 As a demonstration of this blasphemy that took place the high priest tears his robes. 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:46.840 And the reason he tears his robes is because the comment Jesus made in verse 62. 00:03:47.480 --> 00:03:54.480 Now, sometimes in the context of our culture, we don't always understand exactly what's being stated within the passage, but whatever it was, it 00:03:54.480 --> 00:04:00.640 was so extreme that it causes the high priest to just tear his clothes and walking around naked. 00:04:00.980 --> 00:04:03.660 I don't know if he's doing that or not, but he tears his clothes. 00:04:03.660 --> 00:04:07.960 And the statement Jesus makes his rich in Jewish theology. 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:14.840 And this is where Jesus is identifying for us once again exactly who he is and why we should be placing our faith in him. 00:04:16.100 --> 00:04:21.240 Two of the phrases that he uses in verse 62 is where Jesus expresses that. 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:22.960 He says, I am. 00:04:23.100 --> 00:04:24.860 And he uses this phrase, the Son of Man. 00:04:25.520 --> 00:04:27.520 The Son of Man is a phrase that we've talked about before. 00:04:27.520 --> 00:04:29.200 I think in week three of this series together. 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:34.200 It is the most used term that Jesus has identified himself with. 00:04:34.220 --> 00:04:40.700 Other people use terms to describe Christ, but the term Jesus preferred above all others was this phrase, Son of Man. 00:04:41.280 --> 00:04:46.720 Son of Man comes from Daniel 7 where it talks about the Son of Man coming before the Ancient of Days. 00:04:47.100 --> 00:04:53.480 In describing the Son of Man in Daniel 7 it attributes characteristics to this Son of Man that only deity could possess. 00:04:53.880 --> 00:04:56.080 His ruling and reigning for all of eternity. 00:04:56.580 --> 00:05:03.740 By the way, if you study that passage, Daniel 7 where it describes the Ancient of Days and the Son of Man, the Ancient of Days is attributed to 00:05:03.740 --> 00:05:04.860 Jesus in Revelation. 00:05:04.980 --> 00:05:11.220 The same description for the Ancient of Days in Daniel 7 is described of Jesus in Revelation. 00:05:12.220 --> 00:05:15.980 But what you see Jesus doing in this passage, as he's shaping the identity of who he is. 00:05:16.740 --> 00:05:21.050 The Son of Man, one of eternal authority, one who would be ruling and reigning. 00:05:22.280 --> 00:05:29.380 And so if you want to study a little bit more, I'd encourage you to go back and listen to that last sermon series that we did on this in this section, I think it was week three and we talked about it, 00:05:29.900 --> 00:05:33.480 but Jesus also uses this other identity, this statement, the I am. 00:05:34.500 --> 00:05:37.480 The I am is a popular statement in the gospel of John. 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:44.590 In fact, a lot of the gospel of John centers around this phrase of Jesus, this I am, Jesus refers to himself as the I am in John 8:58, 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:45.980 John 10:30. 00:05:46.660 --> 00:05:51.000 This I am, goes all the way back to the Old Testament and Exodus 3. 00:05:51.580 --> 00:05:53.020 In the Greek is ego eimi. 00:05:54.440 --> 00:05:57.740 Here in the Old Testament where Jesus is making this illusion. 00:05:58.060 --> 00:05:59.050 It's the phrase Yahweh. 00:06:00.700 --> 00:06:04.840 And so Jesus, when he identifies himself, he's saying that I am the I am. 00:06:06.200 --> 00:06:10.280 And in Israel's history they would have known exactly where this phrase came from. 00:06:11.220 --> 00:06:18.180 Because this is where the first place God gives himself a specific name in scripture to identify who he is. 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:26.440 In Exodus 3:14, Moses is called to go to Egypt to declare it a Pharaoh 00:06:26.440 --> 00:06:28.840 to let the slaves, the Jewish people, free. 00:06:30.300 --> 00:06:35.620 And when Moses has given this calling, he says to God, God, who shall I say to them is sending me? 00:06:37.380 --> 00:06:39.600 And God says, say to them, I am, which I am, has sent you. 00:06:42.180 --> 00:06:45.080 Jesus is identifying himself as this I am. 00:06:46.660 --> 00:06:50.060 This name of God is, he exists therefore he exists. 00:06:51.300 --> 00:06:55.920 It not only points to the eternal nature of God, but the sustaining force of who God is. 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:05.060 What I mean by that is everything in creation, everything that was created in this world, including yourself, finds 00:07:05.060 --> 00:07:07.820 the purpose for his existence outside of itself. 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:16.980 But when it comes to God, the purpose for his existence is found within himself. 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:20.300 Because he is the sustaining one. 00:07:21.760 --> 00:07:25.060 Everything created in this world is intended for God's glory. 00:07:25.080 --> 00:07:32.390 You look at creation and you could just marvel at his magnificence on the precipice of the Grand Canyon, looking at the beach, 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:37.620 the birth of a child, watching your favorite sports team and the athletes doing such incredible things. 00:07:37.620 --> 00:07:39.460 Go Patriots, right? 00:07:40.420 --> 00:07:41.320 Like how I sneaked that in? 00:07:43.400 --> 00:07:44.340 I'll take your jokes later. 00:07:46.700 --> 00:07:49.480 We love to be captivated with things that provoke us worship. 00:07:51.300 --> 00:07:53.270 You know, often in times we sell it short. 00:07:54.760 --> 00:08:01.980 We look at the object itself as if it's the end, but rather everything designed in its purpose and intentions find its purpose outside 00:08:01.980 --> 00:08:02.800 of itself. 00:08:02.960 --> 00:08:06.660 You were created for a glory greater than you, but for God. 00:08:06.980 --> 00:08:12.920 And when God defines himself though he calls himself the I am, he is the self existent one, the self-sustaining one. 00:08:14.820 --> 00:08:21.440 But when Jesus identifies himself as the I am, he's not only pointing to the identity of the self existent one self-sustaining one. 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:28.300 I think he's also rooting himself in what exactly the I am represents to Israel historically. 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:32.970 Because when Moses asked God, who do I say as sending him? 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:40.179 And his told the answer is, tell them I am has sent you, that for Israel, the identity of the I am is one 00:08:40.179 --> 00:08:43.740 who takes them from bondage as slaves to freedom in him. 00:08:45.560 --> 00:08:53.000 And when Jesus goes to the cross, the phrase that he desires for us to know about him is the one who takes us from bondage in sin and freedom 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:53.740 in him. 00:08:56.880 --> 00:09:00.380 So Jesus uses this phrase, both the Son of Man, the eternal ruling one. 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:09.600 And the I am, the God who has created us for his glory to bring us out of slavery into freedom 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:11.060 in him for all of eternity. 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:15.560 Jesus identifies himself as God. 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:23.300 When you read about it in the Old Testament, whenever you read the word LORD in the Old Testament. 00:09:23.880 --> 00:09:31.960 L, O, R, D, when all of it is capitalized, sometimes it's written in lower case, but when every letter is capitalized, it's 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:34.700 identifying LORD as in Yahweh. 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:36.150 The I am. 00:09:37.740 --> 00:09:40.380 So in Isaiah 43:10 this is what it says. 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:43.520 You are my witnesses says the Lord, Yahweh or Jehovah. 00:09:44.560 --> 00:09:47.280 This word Jehovah and Yahweh, are actually the same word. 00:09:48.660 --> 00:09:53.190 Sometimes we use the word Jehovah and we probably even shouldn't, we should always say Yahweh, it will save confusion. 00:09:53.620 --> 00:10:00.800 What happened when the word Yahweh was brought into other languages, when it got to the Germanic languages, this "Y" 00:10:00.860 --> 00:10:02.350 they had no Y in their language. 00:10:02.420 --> 00:10:04.850 They had to replace the Y with the J because it's the closest pronunciation. 00:10:05.520 --> 00:10:07.060 And the w became a V. 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:12.680 so the Hebrews would spell it, Y, H, W, H. 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:16.140 And they actually don't even really know how it was pronounced. 00:10:16.160 --> 00:10:19.400 To the Hebrews it was so sacred they wouldn't even utter that name. 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:21.060 They didn't want a blasphemy the name. 00:10:21.060 --> 00:10:23.600 So rather than out of the name, they just wrote it in consonants. 00:10:25.140 --> 00:10:29.940 Some people believe that they couldn't even remember how it was pronounced because no one wanted to utter the name of God. 00:10:30.580 --> 00:10:32.680 And so they would write it, Y, H, W, H. 00:10:33.880 --> 00:10:37.420 And over time we introduced the vowels into that name so we can pronounce it Yahweh. 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:44.700 But when it went into Germanic languages, they replaced the Y with a J and the W with a V and so it was pronounced Jehovah, but it's the 00:10:44.700 --> 00:10:45.230 same word. 00:10:46.220 --> 00:10:46.600 Yahweh. 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:46.900 Jehovah. 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:55.120 You're my witnesses, says the LORD, all capitalized LORD, and my servant who I am chosen that you may know and believe and understand that I am he before 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:55.460 me. 00:10:55.460 --> 00:10:57.840 There was no God Elohim formed. 00:10:59.500 --> 00:11:01.940 So in the Old Testament, there was this generic word for God. 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:04.850 In fact, if you followed a false god, they would just refer to that as Elohim. 00:11:05.260 --> 00:11:09.140 Rulers and judges can sometimes be referred to as Elohims or god himself. 00:11:09.420 --> 00:11:14.240 But when God gave himself this sacred name, they knew that there was only one God liked this. 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:16.730 There was only one God that existed. 00:11:16.800 --> 00:11:18.070 Israel was monotheistic. 00:11:18.380 --> 00:11:20.920 All other gods were just false gods and they were idols. 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:26.350 So Isaiah 43:10-11 it tells us you are my witnesses of the Yahweh. 00:11:27.400 --> 00:11:30.510 There was no God ever formed and there will be no god that ever exists. 00:11:32.820 --> 00:11:40.120 In fact, in Deuteronomy 6:4, the Shema which Israel would recite to themselves in 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:47.120 the morning and in the evening Shema: Israel, Yahweh, Elohim, Yakutia, Acod. 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:48.980 Hear O Israel, the Lord your God. 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:49.780 The Lord is one. 00:11:51.540 --> 00:11:56.140 So there was only one God and it is Yahweh who is the Elohim. 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:05.480 And so when Jesus identifies himself this way, Israel being a monotheistic society, only believing and worshiping in one God, 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:09.960 saw this as blasphemy and the high priest tears his robes and they desire to kill Jesus. 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:13.000 But yet they can't bring the execution against Christ. 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:20.020 Rome had to do it and so Pilate is brought in by the high priests and the religious leaders in order to execute 00:12:20.020 --> 00:12:20.600 Jesus. 00:12:22.800 --> 00:12:25.660 That's where Jesus gives us his third title. 00:12:27.100 --> 00:12:34.700 It starts in Mark 15: early in the morning, the chief priest with the elders and scribes and the whole council immediately held 00:12:34.700 --> 00:12:38.030 a consultation and binding Jesus. 00:12:39.260 --> 00:12:40.890 They led him away and delivered him to Pilate. 00:12:42.780 --> 00:12:45.730 Pilate question him, are you the King of the Jews? 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:48.460 Jesus answered him. 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:50.240 It is, as you say. 00:12:53.480 --> 00:13:00.820 Jesus avoided this title throughout his ministry because there were so many misconceptions as to what this represented. 00:13:02.920 --> 00:13:06.860 Israel's mind was completely on the geopolitical ruling and reigning on this earth physically. 00:13:09.640 --> 00:13:16.640 And so rather than use that phrase, Jesus preferred the phrase Son of Man, which was rich in theology, and 00:13:16.640 --> 00:13:18.380 they could get a better grasp of who he was. 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:21.700 But here in this passage, Jesus now assumes the title. 00:13:21.700 --> 00:13:24.860 He never verbally says the title, I am the King of the Jews. 00:13:24.880 --> 00:13:27.100 But he assumes that based on what Pilate says. 00:13:30.740 --> 00:13:37.120 And then you see within the text of Mark, 15 Pilate wrestling with this identity. 00:13:39.940 --> 00:13:46.940 And can I tell you, as this story begins to unfold, there is a place within the story that I believe God wants you to connect to it in such a way 00:13:46.940 --> 00:13:50.540 that your own heart wrestles with the identity of Jesus. 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:57.690 That you don't just remain indifferent to what's being discussed here in the scripture, but that your soul is provoked to respond. 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:06.920 You're going to see within the context of the story, the crowds that surround Jesus, Pilate that's there with the crowds, all of them being persuaded 00:14:06.920 --> 00:14:12.720 to not turn to Christ but rather follow after the religious leaders because of the authority that they're carrying. 00:14:15.020 --> 00:14:16.460 How dangerous that becomes for us. 00:14:18.980 --> 00:14:26.140 It says this in Mark 15:6, Now after the feast, he used to release, talking about Pilate, he used to release for them 00:14:26.140 --> 00:14:28.040 any one prisoner whom they requested. 00:14:29.580 --> 00:14:35.040 The man named Barabbas had been in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the insurrection. 00:14:36.560 --> 00:14:42.100 The crowd went up and began asking him to do as he had been accustomed to do for them. 00:14:43.460 --> 00:14:48.050 And Pilate answered them saying, do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews? 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:52.720 For he was aware that the chief priest had handed him over because of envy. 00:14:54.340 --> 00:15:01.800 So Pilate is thinking to himself, I mean it's obvious that Jesus doesn't deserve death, but 00:15:01.800 --> 00:15:06.040 he's afraid of what the religious leaders are doing and the uprising it's creating. 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:08.680 And so Pilate does what he thinks is a no brainer. 00:15:08.740 --> 00:15:09.940 I'm going to get myself out of this position. 00:15:10.540 --> 00:15:13.210 I'm going to bring a murderer and I'm bring Jesus. 00:15:14.220 --> 00:15:17.420 And I'm going to give them a choice because they always get somebody set free at this time of the year. 00:15:17.760 --> 00:15:20.900 So you can choose the murderer or you can choose Jesus. 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:28.340 The story goes on in verse 11 but the chief priest stirred up the crowd to ask him to release Barabbas for them instead. 00:15:29.740 --> 00:15:35.520 Answering again, Pilate said to them, then what shall I do with him who you call the King of the Jews? 00:15:35.540 --> 00:15:36.900 And they shout it back, crucify him. 00:15:38.400 --> 00:15:39.620 Pilate said to them, why? 00:15:39.620 --> 00:15:40.780 What evil has he done? 00:15:40.980 --> 00:15:43.160 But they shouted all the more, crucify him. 00:15:43.160 --> 00:15:46.880 Wishing to satisfy the crowd Pilate release Barabbas for them. 00:15:47.860 --> 00:15:51.400 And after having Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified. 00:15:56.140 --> 00:15:57.740 Here within the context of the story, you see the indifference. 00:15:59.380 --> 00:16:05.140 The crowd not necessarily cheering for Jesus' crucifixion until the religious leaders want them to do so. 00:16:05.520 --> 00:16:06.600 The same thing with Pilate. 00:16:08.400 --> 00:16:12.060 As if in their minds right now, their interest is more in what makes them popular. 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:16.840 We're sort of indifferent and the religious leaders have good reason for doing what they want to do. 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:18.800 So let's just follow them blindly. 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:20.820 Crucify Jesus. 00:16:22.520 --> 00:16:29.110 In the context of this story you're introduced to an individual that sort of vanishes from history after this event. 00:16:30.060 --> 00:16:30.400 Barabbas. 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:38.420 What you know about Barabbas is that he is a murderer and so you see from the very beginning he's not that great of a guy. 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:41.300 Probably not one you want to hang out with in the back alley. 00:16:42.660 --> 00:16:45.590 Three months ago, he may have been a part of Alpine Bible church when it was a scary building. 00:16:50.260 --> 00:16:57.700 In the NIV translation of this story you see in the gospel of Matthew, when he talks about Barabbas, he 00:16:57.700 --> 00:17:00.780 refers to him not just by the name Barabbas but his full name. 00:17:00.780 --> 00:17:05.140 It says, so when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked him, which one do you want me to release for you? 00:17:06.700 --> 00:17:07.680 Jesus Barabbas? 00:17:09.520 --> 00:17:10.940 Or Jesus who was called the Messiah? 00:17:13.180 --> 00:17:19.599 And this is the crux of the story where they don't want you to remain indifferent to what's taking place here because Jesus Barabbas represents something. 00:17:21.460 --> 00:17:22.520 It actually represents you. 00:17:24.420 --> 00:17:27.760 Now I know that the kick within our natures and say, wait a minute, I'm no murderer. 00:17:28.980 --> 00:17:30.380 And probably not. 00:17:31.860 --> 00:17:34.860 It's likely most of us, if none of us have killed somebody here. 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:45.460 Jesus Barabbas is a reminded all of us back to Jesus' sermon on the Mount when he said to us in Matthew chapter five, he 00:17:45.460 --> 00:17:48.000 who has had anger in his heart as committed murder. 00:17:49.740 --> 00:17:56.780 Yes, the physical act in our lives may not have been conducted by your hands, but the seed of what produces that is anger in that 00:17:56.840 --> 00:17:57.960 rest within all of us. 00:17:59.560 --> 00:18:03.300 And so within all of our souls, we need the healing hand of Christ within us. 00:18:05.120 --> 00:18:12.360 Because when you study the name Jesus Barabbas, which is why I think the NIV text gives us the full name within this passage, his name literally means, 00:18:13.260 --> 00:18:17.570 "of our fathers." And so what it's talking about with Jesus is salvation. 00:18:18.040 --> 00:18:25.120 So what is saying to us is they're trusting and they have a choice here to trust in what's 00:18:25.460 --> 00:18:32.620 what's been represented in their fathers or the saving Messiah who has come. 00:18:34.820 --> 00:18:35.670 What will you follow? 00:18:39.120 --> 00:18:45.340 Will you go with what is trust with what's been handed down to you from man? 00:18:48.180 --> 00:18:49.610 Or let go and trust in Christ? 00:18:51.740 --> 00:18:53.850 And you see any indifference of this crowd who they choose. 00:18:56.020 --> 00:18:59.660 Jesus Barabbas rather than Jesus Christ. 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:04.060 You think of being Barabbas that morning. 00:19:06.460 --> 00:19:09.080 In Rome, you didn't stay on death row for several years. 00:19:09.140 --> 00:19:12.930 Once you committed a crime, it was just days, if not moments before you were crucified. 00:19:15.020 --> 00:19:20.520 Barabbas that morning woke up a guilty man, having no hope, thinking he would lead himself to the cross. 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:23.030 That he would be the one that was crucified between the two thieves. 00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:28.120 And yet now he finds himself being freed by Jesus. 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:35.600 God the Father is about to treat Jesus like Barabbas so that Barabbas could be treated like Jesus. 00:19:37.460 --> 00:19:45.940 So what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 5:21 he who knew no sin became sin, that we might become the righteousness of God in him so 00:19:45.940 --> 00:19:49.840 that when God looks at you are clothed in the purity that is in Christ. 00:19:51.300 --> 00:19:58.340 And so the context of the story as it leads us to the cross is to provoke our hearts to respond in a way to recognize that what 00:19:58.340 --> 00:20:01.260 Jesus is doing here is more than just the rescuing of Barabbas. 00:20:01.600 --> 00:20:04.140 But he is the representation of all of us. 00:20:06.900 --> 00:20:07.780 And he willingly goes. 00:20:12.260 --> 00:20:19.680 The story unfolds, verse 22 that Jesus finds himself on the cross. 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:27.200 So then they brought him to the place of Golgotha, which is translated the place of a skull. 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:32.600 They tried to give him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. 00:20:32.600 --> 00:20:39.600 And they crucified him and divided up his garments among themselves and cast lots for them to decide what each man should take. 00:20:40.340 --> 00:20:46.230 And it was the third hour when they crucified in the inscription of the charge against them, read the King of the Jews on the top of his cross. 00:20:49.340 --> 00:20:54.600 In Jewish history, 6:00 AM was the start of the day. 00:20:56.540 --> 00:21:00.840 So the third hour means it's now 9:00 AM when Jesus is crucified. 00:21:02.740 --> 00:21:03.680 Who cares? 00:21:07.120 --> 00:21:08.220 Why does Mark tell you that? 00:21:10.800 --> 00:21:17.840 You think of everything that's happening right now and how this is the most important event in all of history and Mark's more interested in his watch than he is in the crucifix. 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:18.640 Why? 00:21:19.780 --> 00:21:20.500 It's kind of a bizarre thing. 00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:21.520 Jesus is being crucified. 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:22.380 Hey guys, what time is it? 00:21:23.300 --> 00:21:24.260 9:00 AM let's write that down. 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:27.060 Why 9:00 AM? 00:21:29.060 --> 00:21:36.380 I think what Mark's beginning to help us recognize is that the crucifixion of Christ was 00:21:36.380 --> 00:21:37.680 never out of the control of God. 00:21:40.500 --> 00:21:42.120 In fact, this moment was divinely designed. 00:21:43.860 --> 00:21:45.400 It wasn't just a moment of happenstance. 00:21:48.260 --> 00:21:54.680 And the reason I say that is because for almost 2,000 years now, Israel has had the temple. 00:21:57.000 --> 00:21:57.680 Before that they had the tabernacle. 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:04.960 And every day at the tabernacle or the temple, there was a perpetual sacrifice that took place. 00:22:05.300 --> 00:22:08.560 And that perpetual sacrifice happened twice during the day. 00:22:09.700 --> 00:22:12.480 Every day at the same time, a lamb was sacrificed. 00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:16.000 In fact that time was 9:00 AM. 00:22:17.960 --> 00:22:20.480 At 9:00 AM a priest would grab a chauffeur. 00:22:21.840 --> 00:22:28.980 He would go into this niche in the temple, and as he stood in that niche, you would blow this horn and that sound would echo throughout the Valley 00:22:28.980 --> 00:22:36.600 of Jerusalem and all of Israel would know that at the end of the sound of this horn that 00:22:36.600 --> 00:22:42.820 a priest stood ready upon the altar of sacrifice with a knife in hand held to the throat of a lamb. 00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:51.780 When the sound would end, the priest would cut the throat of the lamb. 00:22:54.260 --> 00:22:54.860 Blood would flow. 00:22:57.480 --> 00:23:04.100 To Israel this was a solemn moment, but it's also a moment in quietness that they would recognize God. 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:06.980 Remember your promise to Abraham? 00:23:09.340 --> 00:23:16.500 I remember from the time of Abraham, God has promised his people through you all nations would be blessed. 00:23:20.320 --> 00:23:22.920 You know, in our culture today, we don't like to talk about sin. 00:23:24.600 --> 00:23:31.680 Life's all about you and we're supposed to be happy and honestly, it's not really healing for the heart because Jesus gives you a place to actually 00:23:31.680 --> 00:23:32.560 do something with it. 00:23:35.080 --> 00:23:36.680 Just sweeping under the rug is not good. 00:23:38.160 --> 00:23:38.720 It's not healthy. 00:23:41.400 --> 00:23:47.640 Jesus gives us a place to deal with it in all of Israel throughout the time of the temple, when would see blood flowing into this temple that happened every day. 00:23:49.900 --> 00:23:54.180 It was a reminder of ultimately one who had come as a sacrifice for all of their sins. 00:23:55.180 --> 00:24:02.220 And so when Jesus is dying exactly at 9:00 AM they hear the sound of the warm air coming out as Jesus, his hands Sans wide open, ready 00:24:02.220 --> 00:24:04.140 to receive his crucifix on the cross. 00:24:08.260 --> 00:24:09.180 Jesus is nailed. 00:24:12.320 --> 00:24:13.120 It's not an accident. 00:24:16.540 --> 00:24:23.580 Jesus knew this moment his entire life was about his death, and it even began in Genesis chapter three telling us through the seed 00:24:23.580 --> 00:24:28.720 of a woman, not to the seat of a man, through the seat of a woman I promised would come. 00:24:31.460 --> 00:24:38.700 And then in Mark chapter 15 her, excuse me, is should say chapter 15 verse 33 it says this, when the sixth hour came, 00:24:39.040 --> 00:24:41.320 darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour. 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:44.600 At the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice. 00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:49.260 Eli, Eli Lama, Sebastien I, which is translated, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:53.670 When some of the bystanders heard that, they begin saying, behold, he's calling out for Elijah. 00:24:54.100 --> 00:25:01.140 Some ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, but it put it on a Reed and gave him a drink saying, let us see whether Elijah will come 00:25:01.140 --> 00:25:02.000 and take him down. 00:25:03.220 --> 00:25:10.380 And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last and the veil of the temple was torn into from top to bottom. 00:25:13.720 --> 00:25:19.320 Jesus in this passage gives this cry, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 00:25:21.480 --> 00:25:29.320 He gives a statement from Psalm chapter 22 remember we, we've said together that what happens in 00:25:29.320 --> 00:25:36.420 the new Testament is a lot of revealing of what took place in the Old Testament and Jesus gives us quote from Psalm chapter 00:25:36.420 --> 00:25:40.290 22 and during the life of Jesus, it was common for Jews to have the entire Old Testament memorized. 00:25:41.060 --> 00:25:48.240 And so when Jesus was giving this quote from Psalm chapter 22 he isn't just saying focus on this statement he's bringing to life all of Psalm chapter 22 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:55.340 because in the Jewish mind they would've been able to recite and memorize exactly what the Psalmist said and when you read through the Psalm chapter 00:25:55.340 --> 00:26:01.440 22 you see this Psalm describing a suffering servant, exactly what Jesus is accomplishing on the cross. 00:26:02.340 --> 00:26:06.640 It says in verse seven and verse 12 that he's being surrounded by his enemies. 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:13.040 You get to the end of the S the Psalm, you see the one that's being maligned against the one that's being persecuted and crucified. 00:26:13.720 --> 00:26:17.490 He's the one that comes back in verse 26 27 to the end of the Psalm in victory. 00:26:19.700 --> 00:26:22.160 But in verse six something interesting stated there. 00:26:24.100 --> 00:26:26.060 Jesus is talking about being forsaken. 00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:30.170 It says that he's not even a man, but he's a worm. 00:26:32.380 --> 00:26:39.460 When you study Israel's history as it relates to the worm, the worm was significant to them, becomes the worm, is what 00:26:39.460 --> 00:26:41.060 they use to help decorate their temple. 00:26:43.060 --> 00:26:50.160 They would take this worm, they would put it within the bucket and they would crush it, and that worm provided the dye for which they would stay in the 00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:51.540 drapes that hung in the temple. 00:26:52.200 --> 00:26:59.220 This dark red and Jesus and relating to this Psalm is identifying that he himself 00:26:59.220 --> 00:27:06.640 is being crushed, that his blood is being poured out for us, that it's not by happenstance, but it's intentional that 00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:13.740 at these very hours Jesus has given us life and everything that's been done in Israel's history was a foreshadowing of everything Jesus would 00:27:13.740 --> 00:27:15.100 ultimately fulfill for us. 00:27:17.860 --> 00:27:22.050 So at 9:00 AM he's crucified and is crushed. 00:27:24.280 --> 00:27:31.360 I think it might even be the idea that Isaiah in chapter one verse 18 said, had in mind when he said, though your sins are red, like 00:27:31.360 --> 00:27:37.160 crimson, color of the warm, they shall be white as wool. 00:27:40.780 --> 00:27:44.080 It tells us the hours again, when Jesus is crucified. 00:27:45.820 --> 00:27:51.860 It's interesting when you go back in history, the six hour when darkness falls on this land, they, there's actually journal entries. 00:27:51.860 --> 00:27:58.940 There's a couple of journal entries during this particular time in history, that record from Africa, that darkness 00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:06.720 was over the land during this day and the ninth hour, Jesus 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:08.180 gives up his life. 00:28:09.820 --> 00:28:11.360 Oh my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 00:28:11.360 --> 00:28:18.620 And he breathes his last your, since you're seeing the 9:00 AM the third hour, 00:28:18.940 --> 00:28:20.860 the priests would go into the temple. 00:28:20.860 --> 00:28:24.420 He would blow the horn and they would kill the lamb, sacrificed the lamb. 00:28:25.620 --> 00:28:32.860 That perpetual sacrifice didn't just happen at 9:00 AM but it also happened again at 3:00 PM and the ninth hour for the Jews 00:28:32.860 --> 00:28:39.400 would be 3:00 PM it's nine hours past 6:00 AM and Jesus again, by no accident is giving his life as a sacrifice. 00:28:39.460 --> 00:28:40.830 He does it when he's being crucified. 00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:48.400 He does it when his life is given for the sacrifice of sense, but even on top of that, in Israel's history, during 00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:55.500 the Passover celebration, they would begin the Passover celebration where the lambs would be sacrificed for the temple lamb after lamb would go into 00:28:55.500 --> 00:29:02.560 the temple for sacrifice between 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM I mean blood would be flowing from this temple and Jesus has giving his life 00:29:02.560 --> 00:29:09.900 at not only the exact hour of the perpetual sacrifice, but the exact hour of the Passover lamb when the sacrifices would begin, 00:29:11.820 --> 00:29:12.690 it's no accident. 00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:22.980 And then John 19 verse 30 John records a little bit more detail on Jesus's crucifixion, but 00:29:22.980 --> 00:29:29.610 he says here, he said, Jesus said to tell a sty it is finished, and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. 00:29:31.020 --> 00:29:38.100 When Jesus uses this phrase, and he is very intentional in what he's accomplishing, giving his life, remember he uses the phrase, I am to 00:29:38.100 --> 00:29:45.160 identify who he is just as Israel was freed from slavery, so we would be freed from sin in Christ to 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:48.140 enjoy that relationship with him for all of eternity. 00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:55.300 Then Jesus uses this phrase to TeleSign, not as any accident, that phrase to TeleSign as what was used when they would purchase a slave from 00:29:55.300 --> 00:29:55.900 the slave Margaret. 00:29:55.920 --> 00:30:02.940 That's what would be stamped on the receipt when a slave was bought is what Jesus places on your life when you trust in 00:30:02.940 --> 00:30:10.200 him that you have been purchased for his purpose as he is paid for your sin on the cross and Jesus uses 00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:14.210 this phrase paid in full. 00:30:16.280 --> 00:30:23.500 Tell us that and the sound of the Ram horn echoes throughout the 00:30:23.500 --> 00:30:23.840 land. 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:28.040 Could you imagine how eerie this moment would have been? 00:30:31.480 --> 00:30:38.600 You see Jesus being crucified who John the Baptist has proclaimed the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world at the exact moment the horn 00:30:38.600 --> 00:30:39.050 blows. 00:30:39.480 --> 00:30:46.520 Jesus is crucified the exact moment Jesus gives up his life, the horn blows 00:30:46.520 --> 00:30:53.580 again and at that moment when they're supposed to be offering this Passover land for sacrifice in 00:30:53.580 --> 00:30:57.280 the temple, the temple is just ripped into the wonder. 00:30:59.360 --> 00:31:06.600 The soldier at the cross says he truly was the son of God, and people ask 00:31:06.600 --> 00:31:15.600 the question, when Jesus was crucified on the cross, where did he go for those three days and 00:31:15.600 --> 00:31:16.400 the 12th century? 00:31:16.400 --> 00:31:19.940 This teaching started to emerge that said, Jesus went to hell for those three days, right? 00:31:21.700 --> 00:31:22.500 Where else would he go? 00:31:22.500 --> 00:31:24.440 Because he had to die for our sins. 00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:27.820 But I want you to know that is not biblical or correct. 00:31:30.460 --> 00:31:34.920 When Jesus died for your sins, the payment for your sins, Jesus owed Satan and hell nothing. 00:31:36.820 --> 00:31:38.360 The payment that he made was to the father. 00:31:39.360 --> 00:31:40.040 Let me half of you. 00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:43.980 And so when Jesus made that payment, that's why it says to tell us, I paid in full. 00:31:43.980 --> 00:31:45.970 There was nothing else to make payment on. 00:31:46.700 --> 00:31:49.020 Jesus paid for it all on the cross. 00:31:50.600 --> 00:31:52.240 You want to really know what hell is. 00:31:55.500 --> 00:31:56.390 How isn't a location? 00:31:58.040 --> 00:31:59.190 Let me say it like this. 00:31:59.520 --> 00:32:00.220 Heaven isn't location. 00:32:02.740 --> 00:32:03.660 You don't what makes heaven, heaven. 00:32:06.680 --> 00:32:07.540 It's the presence of Jesus. 00:32:10.100 --> 00:32:16.560 Wherever Jesus is, God created you for that relationship with him for all of eternity. 00:32:19.800 --> 00:32:26.400 When Jesus was on the cross, he experienced connected relationship with the father for all of eternity. 00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:33.280 And yet in this moment, I don't feel, I just don't even know how this happened, but he says, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:41.720 And so if heaven's all about experiencing the joy, the presence of God for all of eternity, and what that if Jesus is separated from the father, as 00:32:41.720 --> 00:32:44.720 Jesus hangs on the cross, he is experiencing hell on earth. 00:32:50.560 --> 00:32:51.480 Jesus does that for you. 00:32:55.960 --> 00:33:01.360 So this word for to tell us I paid in full is for us to understand exactly what Jesus accomplished for us. 00:33:01.360 --> 00:33:06.290 And guys, this is why we say this is why we say you can do nothing to earn your salvation. 00:33:07.760 --> 00:33:11.740 And this is why we say it's an insult, insult to God to even suggest that. 00:33:13.340 --> 00:33:18.320 I mean Galatians in Galatians chapter two says that to us, for righteousness can be achieved with the love. 00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:25.720 Loving Christ died needlessly because there is nothing more that you can add to what Jesus has already done for you now. 00:33:27.500 --> 00:33:30.940 Now, here's the rebuttal to that, because people will look at that statement going to be like, what? 00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:36.720 What keeps somebody from living sinfully they need a bunch of rules, right? 00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:44.880 Can I tell you if your presentation, the gospel is so grace heavy that people ask that question, that puts you in good company because 00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:47.840 Paul defines that very statement in Romans chapter six. 00:33:50.920 --> 00:33:51.720 Well, shall we do them? 00:33:53.220 --> 00:33:58.100 And he proposes that question, why wouldn't we live like hell on earth and Jesus paid for all? 00:33:58.100 --> 00:34:00.260 Let's just say his grace covers us and do what we want. 00:34:00.520 --> 00:34:04.100 And the answer is you would never do that. 00:34:04.100 --> 00:34:04.300 Why? 00:34:06.740 --> 00:34:08.900 Because you see, the love of Christ is poured out for you. 00:34:11.080 --> 00:34:13.050 How would you respond shamefully to him? 00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:22.100 That what provokes you in your heart and seeing this as to love and response and to worship in response and to draw near to him in response 00:34:22.100 --> 00:34:26.040 because he's already paid for it for you. 00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:30.719 And so he says, whoever calls on the name of Lord God gives us a place. 00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:34.600 Just as a Passover, lamb was sacrificed that you could apply the blood of the lamb to your life. 00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:41.679 Now, Jesus has been sacrificed for sin and for you to embrace what Christ has done and to respond to that in law just as 00:34:41.679 --> 00:34:42.400 he has loved you. 00:34:42.460 --> 00:34:44.040 It's not because you're made to do it. 00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:51.540 It's not because of anything anyone's ruling over you with an iron fist as Christ to set you free. 00:34:53.420 --> 00:35:00.100 Finally, that freedom has been expressed and the payment that has been paid, paid fully on your behalf, and it tells us the bail was torn. 00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:07.660 This veil was 20 feet wide, four inches thick, and he saw in the beginning when the high priest looked at the blasting of 00:35:07.660 --> 00:35:10.860 Jesus and he ripped his, he ripped his shirt to declare the blast. 00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:19.620 Me and some of compare the ripping of this bale, God's ripping to declare the blasphemy of what was happening to Jesus and his crucifixion, but 00:35:19.620 --> 00:35:26.920 at the same time, what it's demonstrating to us at the end of the sacrificial system, because Jesus is that ultimate sacrifice and a ripping of the, of 00:35:26.920 --> 00:35:29.860 the divide that exists between us and God because of sin. 00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:32.780 It's no longer there because of Jesus. 00:35:36.200 --> 00:35:43.200 So now in this moment, our faith wrestling event, 00:35:46.560 --> 00:35:49.260 staff burial, resurrection of Jesus. 00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:53.590 So how do you respond? 00:35:58.100 --> 00:35:59.720 This is the most important moment in all of history. 00:36:02.780 --> 00:36:09.260 And so the way you respond is I to just be indifferent like the crowd around Barabbas. 00:36:11.620 --> 00:36:18.660 Well, the heart of worship, looking at what Christ has done, not just something that just randomly happens, but how 00:36:18.660 --> 00:36:20.880 intentional this has become. 00:36:22.620 --> 00:36:29.860 I mean to think in the declaration of all of the Old Testament from Genesis chapter three, the promising of Jesus who was to come, all the prophetic statements 00:36:29.860 --> 00:36:32.540 made about Jesus to the detail of his death. 00:36:32.540 --> 00:36:36.350 All of the worship that's been established from the temple and the law and the high priest. 00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:37.820 Everything pointed to Jesus. 00:36:37.820 --> 00:36:41.500 That's why Jesus comes and he says, all of these things, I am the temple, destroyed the temple. 00:36:41.500 --> 00:36:42.700 In three days I will rebuild it. 00:36:44.020 --> 00:36:45.170 He is the one who fulfills all. 00:36:45.240 --> 00:36:47.740 I did not come to destroy the law, but to fulfill the law. 00:36:49.180 --> 00:36:51.650 Hebrews tells us that he is our high priest. 00:36:53.240 --> 00:37:00.320 Jesus has all of these things culminating in him that this served an entire purpose, that the whole picture is being painted 00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:01.200 in these moments. 00:37:01.200 --> 00:37:08.380 That's exactly what Colossians chapter two and verse 17 tells us that the temple and the Sabbath, that Jesus is the Sabbath, the all 00:37:08.380 --> 00:37:14.500 of it was created for us to see holistically Christ in everything cost. 00:37:14.640 --> 00:37:22.250 In chapter two verse 17 tells us, don't put the shadow of the new moon and the festivals and the Sabbath. 00:37:22.640 --> 00:37:24.960 There were just shadows in comparison to who Christ is. 00:37:27.600 --> 00:37:29.840 All of it finds a fulfillment in Jesus. 00:37:33.060 --> 00:37:40.380 In fact, after Jesus's resurrection, it tells us that Jesus is walking on the road and he's walking on these two 00:37:40.380 --> 00:37:47.380 strangers on the road to MAs, and Jesus starts to teach them about who he is and the way that he wants them to see the significance of this 00:37:47.380 --> 00:37:47.780 moment. 00:37:48.740 --> 00:37:51.370 He ties all of the Old Testament to him and it says this. 00:37:52.040 --> 00:38:00.580 Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, Jesus explained to them the things concerning himself in all of the scriptures, sang 00:38:00.580 --> 00:38:02.780 everything, everything. 00:38:03.880 --> 00:38:04.680 It's about me. 00:38:06.230 --> 00:38:08.380 9:00 AM 3:00 PM all of it had a purpose. 00:38:10.200 --> 00:38:10.860 It's about me. 00:38:11.940 --> 00:38:12.300 Why? 00:38:12.560 --> 00:38:19.900 So you don't miss the significance of this moment and how your soul is to respond and understanding what God has done for you that you can experience 00:38:19.900 --> 00:38:23.300 eternal relationship with him starting now and forever. 00:38:24.940 --> 00:38:33.080 Try to think of a way to tie my heart to this week because 00:38:33.080 --> 00:38:40.320 I thought I just kept the weight of grossly under communicating what 00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:41.060 happens there. 00:38:41.060 --> 00:38:41.820 It was just on me. 00:38:41.820 --> 00:38:47.160 I'm thinking, man, what's apart from the cross of Christ? 00:38:47.340 --> 00:38:49.440 What's the most significant thing I've experienced in my life? 00:38:51.260 --> 00:38:53.700 I thought of that. 00:38:53.700 --> 00:38:54.540 Marriage is good. 00:38:54.560 --> 00:38:56.180 My wife just had to go out for a minute. 00:38:56.280 --> 00:38:57.600 So wedding was good. 00:38:57.600 --> 00:38:58.340 Tell her I told you that. 00:38:58.440 --> 00:38:58.960 Okay. 00:38:59.980 --> 00:39:02.100 that was a monumental moment in my life. 00:39:02.700 --> 00:39:07.800 But one of the moments that probably scared me as much as I enjoyed was the birth of our first child. 00:39:10.540 --> 00:39:15.460 When Grayson was born, I remember they became a moment in that room. 00:39:15.640 --> 00:39:15.840 Stays. 00:39:15.900 --> 00:39:17.110 Now we're just there by ourselves. 00:39:17.500 --> 00:39:22.400 You know, we, we've lived in Utah for 12 years away from families. 00:39:22.460 --> 00:39:25.690 We're there for the, your first child and you're like a deer in headlights when that's happening. 00:39:26.460 --> 00:39:28.060 And so I remember we're in the hospital. 00:39:28.140 --> 00:39:31.740 All of a sudden there's panic that sits in the room and it's not between her and I, it's between the medical staff. 00:39:32.300 --> 00:39:34.690 It's like, Ugh, you guys do this for a living. 00:39:34.780 --> 00:39:37.770 So if you're, if you're panicking, we're in trouble. 00:39:37.820 --> 00:39:38.300 Right. 00:39:38.500 --> 00:39:43.000 And, it's funny, as my mom's a nurse, my dad's, my stepdad's an obstetrician. 00:39:43.080 --> 00:39:48.900 So it's not like, this is nothing I'm not unfamiliar with in my life, but we're there in this room. 00:39:48.900 --> 00:39:56.280 They start the panic and I can see it's amping up cause they're trying to hurry up and get Stacy into the room to, surgically remove the kid and 00:39:56.280 --> 00:39:58.620 get grace now as quickly as possible. 00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:04.280 And I remember I just grabbed one of the medical doctors as their panic and a pull into him. 00:40:04.300 --> 00:40:07.650 Like, listen dude, stop freaking out man. 00:40:08.040 --> 00:40:09.560 This is not going to go turn a lot. 00:40:09.560 --> 00:40:10.360 Let my wife see this. 00:40:10.360 --> 00:40:11.610 And I'm like, use this better. 00:40:11.700 --> 00:40:12.020 Calm down. 00:40:12.040 --> 00:40:14.340 You know, just throw the life, because this is, this is a serious moment. 00:40:14.580 --> 00:40:18.160 I don't want everybody just to stress out, but I just want to, whatever needs to happen, what's happening? 00:40:18.160 --> 00:40:20.200 Let's do it without, without freaking everybody out. 00:40:20.220 --> 00:40:20.600 Okay. 00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:28.120 And we get in there and they take Grayson out and when they pull him out, he's got this huge blood blister on the back of his head because 00:40:28.120 --> 00:40:29.120 of trauma that he's had. 00:40:29.120 --> 00:40:32.720 And they're worried that blood has gone into his brain. 00:40:33.240 --> 00:40:40.300 Because I guess the baby's blood doesn't quite acculate as fast as they would want it to and they feel like it can appear some of the skull cause the skull is soft and they're talking about ICU and how 00:40:40.300 --> 00:40:42.220 traumatic that was and so we're in this moment. 00:40:42.460 --> 00:40:49.640 It's so stressful and they, they're taking them to ICU and they want to test them out and it turns out everything was 00:40:49.640 --> 00:40:49.980 okay. 00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:57.760 I can remember after going through all that turmoil, just sitting there in that moment, just resting in it, right? 00:40:59.560 --> 00:41:07.600 All that anticipation, all of that, build up, all of that, putting cribs together and hating Ikea for how many steps they involved and 00:41:07.600 --> 00:41:14.680 then you finally have a moment you just rest and at the same 00:41:14.680 --> 00:41:16.360 time you're resting. 00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:20.160 You realize that this moment is so special because it's also placed on your life. 00:41:20.160 --> 00:41:26.780 A bigger calling, snowing will no longer my am I just a husband and I'm a, I'm a father. 00:41:28.860 --> 00:41:35.790 And so you filled not just the weight, but the joy of that responsibility, how precious it is. 00:41:37.660 --> 00:41:42.100 I think as best as I can relate it, that's a lot of what happens around the cross of Christ. 00:41:43.860 --> 00:41:50.510 You can imagine Peter, James and John, they have all these hopes with Jesus and now they're seeing it go down the toilet. 00:41:50.600 --> 00:41:52.900 They're like, man, he's being crushed. 00:41:53.120 --> 00:41:54.330 All the dreams that's going away. 00:41:55.200 --> 00:42:02.360 What's happening this tense moment freaking out and Jesus resurrected 00:42:02.560 --> 00:42:07.680 and now they see how the whole picture fits together. 00:42:09.840 --> 00:42:10.760 This wasn't an accident. 00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:15.530 This is what he intended from the beginning. 00:42:18.400 --> 00:42:24.120 No matter what this world holds, no matter how difficult it may seem, God's working it all out. 00:42:26.680 --> 00:42:34.140 He's holding me with him and this is why you can believe every promise that Christ gives you in scripture because he has massively 00:42:34.140 --> 00:42:41.260 worked on his promises from the beginning to bring into this moment of trusting in him, and this is what 00:42:41.260 --> 00:42:42.350 I love about Jesus. 00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:49.700 When he's declaring who he is throughout scripture and all of the identities he says about himself, he is his temple, he is priest, he 00:42:49.700 --> 00:42:51.770 has law, he has true Israel. 00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:57.680 One of my favorites is a he is Sabbath because the word for Sabbath is rest. 00:42:59.500 --> 00:43:06.640 And when Jesus came and Matthew chapter 11 he says to the people that are being oppressed by religion, he says them come to me all you who are weary 00:43:06.640 --> 00:43:08.720 and heavy Laden and I will give you what? 00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:12.960 Rest. 00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:14.420 Rest. 00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:16.880 Can I tell you? 00:43:18.340 --> 00:43:20.620 Jesus isn't just one more thing you add to your week. 00:43:22.500 --> 00:43:26.830 It's not the extra thing you have to put on that finally just breaks the back of all the things you have to accomplish this week. 00:43:29.040 --> 00:43:29.680 He has rest itself. 00:43:32.360 --> 00:43:35.760 It's why Paul says in Colossians chapter three in verse 15 listen to this. 00:43:35.820 --> 00:43:36.370 This is a good verse. 00:43:36.460 --> 00:43:37.080 You can memorize this. 00:43:37.100 --> 00:43:44.360 When you walk out and you think about the cross of Christ, it says this, let the peace of Christ rule in your heart. 00:43:46.040 --> 00:43:47.760 Well, you know what it means to worship Jesus. 00:43:47.860 --> 00:43:52.400 I know the Christian life isn't easy because people can align you for following after Christ, but let me tell you what it is. 00:43:54.600 --> 00:44:01.760 When you come in this morning to worship God, if there's something that you should experience of all of the things I can think about 00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:05.300 how to describe this, girls love and grace and forgiveness, all those things are good man. 00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:12.200 One of the things that we discover it at all, it's painful. 00:44:14.580 --> 00:44:22.020 Genesis three one sent in the worlds the things that they lose pace, but 00:44:22.020 --> 00:44:31.000 when Jesus lays down his life for you, the thing that he brings into your life and relationship with him, it's 00:44:31.780 --> 00:44:33.580 pace. 00:44:33.580 --> 00:44:38.140 So when you look at Christ, if you're seeing it as something else, you've got to put on the list of things you've got to do this week. 00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:46.580 If it becomes about a task rather than about resting in him, can I tell you you're doing it wrong because 00:44:46.580 --> 00:44:46.920 what? 00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:51.220 Jesus desires for your soul, it's peace. 00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:54.380 Do you know why your soul can rest? 00:44:56.620 --> 00:44:57.280 Tell us style. 00:44:59.820 --> 00:45:07.110 Tell us that it's been paid in full when you come before God, it's not trying to impress him with all these things that you have to offer, 00:45:07.180 --> 00:45:10.310 what Jesus has provided for you as a place to come to him and rest there. 00:45:12.520 --> 00:45:16.940 There is nothing more I can do to bring you any more glory than the glory that you possess. 00:45:18.540 --> 00:45:25.740 Boy, you've done in that glorious providing a place for me to come unto you because of what you've done for me so that I can rest in your identity 00:45:25.740 --> 00:45:32.820 for what you have accomplished for me on cross Barabbas, Jesus became Barabbas that Barabbas could become 00:45:32.820 --> 00:45:33.220 Jesus. 00:45:34.660 --> 00:45:35.040 Why? 00:45:37.200 --> 00:45:37.380 So? 00:45:37.500 --> 00:45:40.120 The peace of Christ could rule our hearts. 00:45:43.560 --> 00:45:45.020 That's when it comes to worship this morning. 00:45:47.480 --> 00:45:55.000 Whatever turmoils in your soul, whatever struggles you face, ah, Oh Jesus 00:45:57.300 --> 00:46:04.500 is one of those stressors, rather a place to rest, a place to 00:46:04.500 --> 00:46:11.880 hope, a place to see that he has orchestrated it all for you so 00:46:11.940 --> 00:46:19.620 you can be comfortable in that relationship in him under an understanding that rest and 00:46:19.620 --> 00:46:21.120 the joy of that rest. 00:46:22.300 --> 00:46:26.680 There's also a higher calling you have opportunity to share with this world.