Participants: John Bradshaw
Series Code: 17HC
Program Code: 17HC000003A
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00:01 ♪ >> WELCOME BACK TO 3ABN'S FALL
00:28 CAMP MEETING, HOMECOMING 2017. ♪ 00:34 >> FEATURING INSPIRED MESSAGES FROM YOUR 3ABN FAMILY. 00:38 ♪ >> AND FEATURED SPEAKER, JOHN 00:44 BRADSHAW. ALL TO PREPARE YOUR HEART FOR 00:46 THE COMING OF THE LORD. >> HELLO AND WELCOME TO THURSDAY 00:52 EVENING OF OUR 3ABN FAL HOMECOMING 2017. 00:58 WE'RE SO GLAD THAT EACH ONE OF YOU ARE HERE. 01:02 HAVE WE BEEN BLESSED SO FAR? AMEN. 01:05 AND WE'RE SO GLAD YOU HAVE JOINED US FROM HOME, TUNED IN 01:11 FROM AROUND THE WORD. MY NAME IS JIL MORIKONE, AND 01:13 WE'RE JUST DELIGHTED THAT YOU ARE HEAR. 01:16 TONIGHT'S MESSAGE WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY ELDER JOHN 01:21 BRADSHAW. MY HUSBAND AND I HAD THE 01:23 PRIVILEGE OF KNOWING BROTHER BRADSHAW, I WANT TO SAY MAYBE 25 01:27 YEARS AGO IN SCHOOL. HE WAS JUST AHEAD OF US IN 01:31 SCHOOL. AND EVEN THEN HE HAS A FIRM 01:33 GRASP ON THE WORD OF GOD. HE WAS A MAN OF GOD. 01:36 A MAN OF PRINCIPLE, AND JUST A WONDERFUL WARM PRESENTATION 01:41 STYLE. SO WE ARE SO BLESSED THAT HE IS 01:44 OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND OUR FEATURED SPEAKER ALL WEEKEND 01:47 THIS WEEKEND. HIS TITLE TONIGHT WILL BE 01:50 SACRIFICE, AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO WHAT GOD IS GOING TO 01:54 DO IN AND THROUGH HIM. HE IS NOW THE SPEAKER DIRECTOR 01:57 FOR IT IS WRITTEN, THAT'S AN INTERNATIONAL MEDIA-BASED 02:03 MINISTRY, AND WE AIR THAT ON 3ABN, AND I KNOW IT HAS BLESSED 02:06 PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD. HE HAS TRAVELED ALL OVER THE 02:10 WORLD SHARING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, PREACHING 02:15 EVANGELISTIC SERIES ON OVER SIX CONTINENTS. 02:18 I GUESS MAYBE THERE IS ONLY SIX CONTINENT, SO MAYBE THAT MEANS 02:23 HE HAS BEEN EVERYWHERE. HIS WIFE MELISSA IS A PRECIOUS 02:28 WOMAN OF GOD, AND THEY HAVE TWO CHILDREN. 02:32 AND WE'RE SO BLESSED THAT HE IS HERE TONIGHT. 02:35 BEFORE WE HEAR HIS MESSAGE, WE'RE GOING TO BE BLESSED BY 02:40 ANOTHER PASTOR, MY PASTOR, PASTOR JOHN LOMACANG. 02:44 AND HE IS ALWAYS THE WORLD EVANGELISM DIRECTOR FOR US HERE 02:48 AT 3ABN. AND THE SONG THAT HE WILL BE 02:53 MINISTERING IS SHEPPARD OF MY HEART. 02:59 AND PASTOR LOMACANG SINGS, TH NEXT VOICE THAT YOU WILL HEAR 03:08 WILL BE THAT OF PASTOR JOHN BRADSHAW. 03:13 ♪ ♪ MAKER OF THIS HEART OF MINE ♪ 03:21 ♪ YOU KNOW ME VERY WELL ♪ ♪ YOU UNDERSTAND MY DEEPEST 03:33 HEART MORE THAN I KNOW MYSELF ♪ ♪ SO WHEN I FACE THE DARKNESS ♪ 03:41 ♪ WHEN I NEED TO FIND MY WAY ♪ ♪ I'LL TRUST IN YOU, SHEPHERD OF 03:52 MY HEART ♪ ♪ KEEPER OF THIS HEART OF MINE ♪ 04:00 ♪ YOUR PATIENCE HAS NO END ♪ ♪ YOU'VE LOVED ME BACK INTO YOUR 04:10 ARMS TIME AND TIME AGAIN ♪ ♪ SO IF I START TO WANDER, JUST 04:21 LIKE A LAMB THAT'S GONE ASTRAY ♪ ♪ I'LL TRUST IN YOU, SHEPHERD OF 04:32 MY HEART ♪ ♪ YOU ARE THE BEACON OF MY 04:36 NIGHT ♪ ♪ YOU'RE THE SUNLIGHT OF MY 04:43 DAY ♪ ♪ I CAN REST WITHIN YOUR ARMS ♪ 04:50 ♪ I CAN KNOW YOUR LOVING WAYS ♪ ♪ SO LET THE COLD WINDS BLOW ♪ 04:59 ♪ AND LET THE STORMS RAGE ALL AROUND ♪ 05:04 ♪ I'LL TRUST IN YOU SHEPHERD OF MY HEART ♪ 05:20 ♪ GIVER OF THIS LIFE OF ME ♪ ♪ YOU ARE WHAT I'M LIVING FOR ♪ 05:30 ♪ FOR ALL MY DEEDS OF GRATITUDE ♪ 05:35 ♪ YOU LOVE ME EVEN MORE ♪ ♪ SO AS I WALK, LISTENING FOR 05:45 THE MASTER'S CALL ♪ ♪ I'LL TRUST IN YOU, SHEPHERD OF 05:52 MY HEART ♪ ♪ YOU'RE THE BEACON OF MY 06:00 NIGHT ♪ ♪ YOU'RE THE SUNLIGHT OF MY 06:04 DAY ♪ ♪ AND I CAN REST WITHIN YOUR 06:10 ARMS ♪ ♪ I WILL KNOW YOUR LOVING WAYS ♪ 06:20 ♪ SO AS I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY, LISTENING FOR MY 06:26 MASTER'S CALL ♪ ♪ I'LL TRUST IN YOU, SHEPHERD OF 06:32 MY HEART ♪ ♪ YES, I'LL TRUST IN YOU, 06:43 SHEPHERD OF MY HEART ♪ 06:56 >> AMEN! >> AMEN! 07:02 >> WERE YOU AS BLESSED BY THAT AS I WAS, DO YOU THINK? 07:07 AMEN. THANKS, PASTOR LOMACANG. 07:09 GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. FANTASTIC TO HAVE YOU HERE THIS 07:13 EVENING. THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING PART OF 07:15 THIS CAMP MEETING. JUST SO GLAD. 07:19 THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ME TO GET AHEAD OF THE GAME A LITTLE 07:25 BIT, AND LET YOU KNOW TOWARDS THE END OF OCTOBER, I'LL PRESENT 07:29 A SPECIAL NINE-PART SERIES DEALING WITH THE REFORMATION. 07:35 I MAY REMIND YOU ONCE OR TWICE, BUT KEEP THIS IN MIND. 07:40 THIS MARKS THE 500TH AN VERSE OF THE FOUNDING OF THE PROTESTANT, 07:51 WHEN MARTIN LUTHER NAILED THOSE PROTESTS, AND HE CHANGED THE 07:59 WORLD. GOD CHANGED THE WORLD THROUGH 08:00 HIM THEN AND NOW. I WANT YOU TO BE WATCHING OUT ON 08:05 3ABN FOR 500, BROUGHT TO YOU BY IT IS WRITTEN. 08:11 IT IS REALLY A TERRIFIC, A TERRIFIC SERIES OF PROGRAMS. 08:16 >> CAMP MEETING, REASON YOU GLAD ABOUT THAT. 08:19 SACRIFICE, HIS AND OURS. THAT'S OUR THEME THIS WEEKEND. 08:23 I'M GOING TO BE ATTEMPT TO BE FAITHFUL TO THAT THEME. 08:29 SO TONIGHT THE SUBJECT IS ENTITLED SACRIFICE. 08:32 I'M GOING TO PRAY AND ASK THAT GOD WOULD BLESS US AS WE OPEN 08:37 THE BIBLE TOGETHER.-SO LET'S PRAY AND EXPECT THAT GOD WOULD SPEAK TO US. 08:43 OUR FATHER IN HEAEN, WE COME IN THE NAME OF JESUS. 08:48 THERE IN THE BIBLE YOU -- YOU SPOKE TO US, AND YOU SAID OPEN 08:52 YOUR MOUTH WIDE AND I WILL FILL IT. 08:58 SO WE COME TO YOU WITH OU MOUTHS WIDE OPEN TONIGHT. 09:02 WE PRAY THAT YOU WOULD FEED US WITH THE BREAD OF HEAVEN. 09:05 WE PRAY THAT YOU WOULD SPEAK AND BE HEARD. 09:08 WE THANK YOU THAT YOU HAVE FILLED THIS PLACE WITH YOUR 09:12 SPIRIT. IF THERE IS EVEN ONE HEART HERE 09:16 THAT IS NOT FILLED WITH YOUR SPIRIT, I PRAY THAT YOU 09:19 WOULD -- YOU WOULD PROD -- YOU WOULD PRY IT OPEN. 09:26 BRING TO BEAR ON THAT HEART, THIS GRACE, SO THA THAT MAN, 09:33 THAT WOMAN WILL SAY OKAY, LORD, FILL ME UP. 09:36 TAKE OUR MINDS, OUR FOCUS, BLESS US THAT WE CAN BE ATTENTIVE TO 09:44 THE SOUND OF YOUR VOICE. WE PRAY AND WE THANK YOU IN 09:49 JESUS NAME. PLEASE SAY IT WITH ME. 09:50 >> AMEN. >> AMEN. 09:57 AMEN. IT WAS WORLD WAR II, THE DOER 10:04 CHESTER WAS A U.S. ARMY TRANSPORT SHIP. 10:07 AND IT WAS TRANSLATING -- TRANSLATING -- IT 10:12 WAS TRANSPORTING HUNDREDS OF U.S. TROOPS TO EUROPE. 10:17 IT WAS A DANGEROUS TIME, AND FERRYING U.S. MILITARY TROOPS 10:24 ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, AND ON TO THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT WAS A 10:31 DANGEROUS BUSINESS. AND NOT WITHOUT PRECEDENT, AS 10:38 THE DORCHESTER WAS TRAVELING TO GREENLAND IN A CONVOY OF SHIPS, 10:44 IT WAS TORPEDOED AND SUNK BY A GERMAN WARSHIP. 10:51 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE SHIP WAS NOT NEARING HAWAII. 10:57 THE SHIP WAS NOT NEARING MOROCCO. 11:04 THE SHIP WAS NEARING -- WHAT NATION DID I TELL YOU? 11:12 GREENLAND. WELL, A PART OF DENMARK. 11:14 I THEY IS RIGHT. IT WAS HEADING TO GREENLAND. 11:17 IT WAS TORPEDOED, AND IT BEGAN TO SINK, AND DO YOU KNOW THE 11:23 WATERS IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD ARE FRIGID. 11:26 EVEN WHEN THE WEATHER IS AT ITS MOST HOSPITALABLE, THE WATER IS 11:34 COLD. AND DOWN THEY WENT. 11:36 AND THERE WAS CHAOS -- I DON'T MEAN DISORGANIZATION. 11:40 I DON'T MEAN THAT THE MILITARY MEN LOST THEIR WAY. 11:45 THERE WAS CHAOS. PEOPLE ARE RUSHING HERE AND 11:47 WILL. FOLKS ARE GETTING THEMSELVES 11:51 INTO LIFEBOATS. PEOPLE ARE SCRAMBLING TO 11:54 POSITIONS OF SAFETY. THE SAILORS AND THE MEN ON BOARD 11:57 WERE LOOKING FOR LIFE JACKETS, AND IT WAS DISCOVERED IN THE 12:02 HU HUBBUB, THAT THERE WAS NOT 12:05 ENOUGH LIFE JACKETS TO GO AROUND. 12:10 THERE WERE FOUR CHAPLAINS ON BOARD THAT SHIP. 12:16 ONE CATHOLIC, ONE JEW, AND TWO PROTESTANTS. 12:22 AND THEY DID WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT CHAPLAINS TO DO. 12:26 THEY ENCOURAGED THE MEN. THEY HELPED THEM TO GET TO THEIR 12:34 PLACES. THEY URGED THEM TO BE SAVED. 12:38 THEY ADVISED THEM TO GO WITH -pGOD. AND THEN THEY DID ONE LAST 12:48 THING.-THEY TOOK OFF THEIR LIFE JACKETS AND GIVE THEM TO SOLDIERS WHO 12:56 HAD NOT A LIFE JACKET OF THEIR OWN. 12:59 WHAT WOULD THEIR FAITH BE? WHAT DO YOU THINK? 13:02 THEY WEREN'T GOING TO CLING TO A LIFEBOAT. 13:06 THEY WEREN'T LIFEBOATS ENOUGH. THEY WEREN'T GOING TO SWIM TO 13:10 SAFETY, NOR WOULD THEY TREAD WATER LONG ENOUGH FOR HELP TO 13:16 ARRIVE. THEY SANG AND THEY PRAYED 13:22 TOGETHER. AND THEY WENT DOWN WITH THE SHIP 13:26 INTO THE FRIGGED WATER, AND THEY DIED. 13:31 THEY HAVE BEEN REMEMBERED, THE FOUR CHAPLAINS, THE FUR GAL 13:37 LENT MEN WERE EVEN FEE CHAIRED ON A STAMP ISSUED BY THE 13:40 UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, BUT THINK ABOUT WHAT THEY DID. 13:43 THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT. IT WASN'T WRITTEN IN THE TERMS 13:47 OF THEIR EMPLOYMENT, IF TH SHIP IS GOING DOWN, MAKE SURE YOU 13:51 GIVE YOUR LIFE JACKET AWAY. THIS WAS ABOVE AND BEYOND THE 13:54 CALL OF DUTY.-WHAT WAS COURSING THROUGH THEIR VEINS?-WAS ONE THINKING, I HOPE THAT 14:02 GUY CHANGES HIS MIND? I DOUBT IT. 14:04 THESE WERE MEN -- OF THEIR OWN UNDERSTANDING, THESE WERE MEN OF 14:09 GAD. THEY HAD GIVEN THEIR LIVES TO 14:13 SERVICE. AND THEIR LAST ACT WAS AN HEROIC 14:17 ACT. IT WAS AN ACT OF UNSELFISH LOV. 14:21 IT WAS AN ACT OF SACRIFICE, AND THEY GAVE THEIR LIFE JACKETS 14:25 AWAY. THINK ABOUT THAT. 14:27 WHAT SORT OF A DISPOSITION DO YOU HAVE TO HAVE IN ORDER TO 14:31 TAKE A LIFE JACKET OFF AND GIVE IT TO SOMEBODY ELSE, AND SAY, 14:35 HERE, YOU GO FIRST. IMAGINE THAT. 14:38 YOU KNOW WHAT IS FASCINATING ABOUT THIS ACCOUNT IS THAT HUMAN 14:46 CHAPLAINS WHO DID SOMETHING SELFLESS FOR THEIR FELLOW 14:53 COUNTRYMEN. I'M NOT MINIMIZING WHAT THEY 14:54 DID. IT'S AMAZING. 14:57 IT'S ENORMOUS. BUT AT THEN OF THE DAY, THEY 15:00 SHOWED LOVE FOR THE MEN WHO WERE ON THEIR SIDE. 15:05 NOW I DON'T MEAN IN ANYWAY -- I WANT TO STATE THIS AGAIN -- TO 15:11 TAKE AWAY FROM THE ENORMITY OF WHAT THEY DID. 15:14 BUT I WANT TO LOOK AT THAT ENORMOUS SACRIFICE AND 15:17 THEN -- AND THEN PUT IT UP AGAINST WHAT JESUS DID. 15:21 THE BIBLE SAYS IN ROMANS 5:8, THAT GOD DEMONSTRATED HIS LOVE 15:30 TOWARDS US IN THAT WHILE WE WERE YET, WHAT? 15:37 SINNERS. CHRIST DID WHAT? 15:40 DIED FOR US! FRIEND CHRIST DIED FOR YOU, WHO 15:44 LOVE HIM WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART. HE ALSO DIED FOR THAT MAN 15:48 HANGING OUT AT A CRACK HOUSE TONIGHT. 15:51 HE DIED FOR THT MAN STEPPING ON HIS WIFE. 15:56 HE DIED FOR THAT WOMAN THINKING OF ENDING A MAR AGE, EVEN THOUGH 16:03 NOBODY IN HER FAMILY DID HER ANY WRONG. 16:05 HE DIED FOR THE CRIMINALS, THE MAFIA, THIEVES, PEDOPHILES. 16:13 THE BIBLE SAID THAT GOD DEMONSTRATED THE KIND OF LOVE HE 16:15 HAD FOR US, IN THAT WHILE WE WERE YET SINNERS, JESUS DIED FOR 16:22 US. AND SO WE THINK OF THIS THEME 16:26 SACRIFICE. HIS AND OURS. 16:29 LET'S THINK ABOUT HIS. THINK ABOUT THIS JESUS. 16:33 WHO WAS JESUS? JESUS WAS, IS, THE CREATOR OF 16:39 THE WORLD. JESUS WAS GOD IN HUMAN FLESH. 16:43 IT WAS CHRIST WHO COMMANDED AND THINGS STOOD FAST. 16:47 HE SPOKE AND THINGS WERE DONE. IT WAS JESUS WHO SAID, LET THERE 16:54 BE LIGHT, AND THE LIGHT APPEARED. 16:57 IT WASJESUS WHO GOT DOWN IN THE DIRT AND FASHIONED INTO THE FORM 17:00 OF A MAN THE BODY OF ADAM, AND THEN HE GOT DOWN CLOSER YET, 17:06 THEN VERY INTIMATELY BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF 17:13 LIFE. IT WAS JESUS. 17:14 WE ARE THE WORK OF HIS HAND. IT WAS JESUS, THE WOK OF GOD 17:20 WHO CAME TO EARTH. AND THROUGH SOME GREA MIRACLE 17:24 THAT WE REFER TO AS THE INCARNATION BEGAN TO GROW IN THE 17:31 WOMB OF A WOMAN. HE WAS FORCED INTO THIS EARTH AS 17:34 A BABY. AND GREW AS BABIES DO. 17:36 JESUS -- CAN YOU IMAGINE THE CON DISSENSION -- JESUS THE CREATOR 17:42 COMING DOWN HERE TO LIVE AND DWELL WITH THE CREATION. 17:45 IT'S A MARVEL, AND THE PROPHETS WROTE OF THIS AHEAD OF TIME. 17:50 THEY WROTE OF THE MISSION AND THE MINISTRY OF JESUS BEFORE IT 17:55 TOOK PLACE. AND WHAT THEY WROTE WAS TOO MUCH 18:00 FOR SOME PEOPLE TO COMPREHEND. YOU KNOW THAT PHILIP WAS LEAD BY 18:09 THE HOLY SPIRIT OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS SO THAT HE COULD 18:14 ENCOUNTER AN OFFICIAL OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE ETHIOPIAN 18:18 QUEEN, QUEEN CANDACE. THIS WAS MAN WHO HAD BEEN SKER. 18:23 ING THE SCRIPTURES, AND WAS WANING TO KNOW MORE. 18:25 ISN'T IT WONDERFUL WHEN YOUR HEART IS TOWARDS GOD, GOD WILL 18:29 MOVE PEOPLE INTO YOUR LIFE WHO WILL BRING YOU LIFE. 18:33 WHEN YOU ARE SEARCHING GOD WILL ORCHESTRATE CIRCUMSTANCES TO 18:38 GIVE YOU THE BEST POSSIBLE EXAMPLE. 18:44 THANK GOD FOR GOD. THIS ETHIOPIAN UNCK, IS READING 18:51 IN THE SCRIPTURES, AND HE SAID TO PHILIP, I PRAY THE. 18:57 OF WHOM SPEAKTH THE PROPHET THIS? 19:01 OF HIMSELF OR OF SOME OTHER MAN? AND THEN THE BIBLE TELL US THE 19:05 PLACE OF THE SCRIPTURE WHERE HE READ WAS THIS. 19:08 HE WAS LEAD AS A SHEEP TO THE SLAUGHTER, AND LIKE A LAMB DUMB 19:15 BEFORE HIS SHEERER, SO HE OPENED NOT HIS MOUTH. 19:19 IN THAT IS WORTH INVESTIGATING IN A LITTLE MORE DETAIL. 19:23 HE WAS READING FROM THE BOOK OF ISAIAH. 19:29 ISAIAH WROTE IN ISAIAH 53, SOME SHOCKING WORDS ABOUT JESUS. 19:35 AND I DON'T KNOW THAT WE WANT TO READ THE WHOLE THING, BUT LET ME 19:39 START IN ISAIAH 53:1. WHO HATH BELIEVED OUR REPORT. 19:44 AND TO WHOM IS THE ARM OF THE LORD REVEALED? 19:48 FOR HE SHALL GROW UP AS A TENDER PLANT AND AS A ROOT OUT OF A DRY 19:53 GROUND. HE HAS NO FORM, AND WHEN HE 19:55 SHALL SEE HIM, THERE IS NO BEAUTY THAT WE SHOULD DESIRE 19:58 HIM. THIS IS REFERRING TO THE EARTHLY 20:02 JESUS. THE JESUS WHO IN ISAIAH'S DAY 20:05 WAS YET TO COME. SPEAKING ABOUT THIS CHRIST THAT 20:07 YOU WOULDN'T PICK OUT IN A CROWD AND SAY THERE IS SOMETHING 20:10 SPECIAL ABOUT HIM. YOU JUST WOULDN'T. 20:12 HE WAS JUST ANOTHER FACE IN THE CROWD. 20:16 AND WHEN HE CAME TO THE BIBLE -- SORRY WHEN HE CAME TO 20:20 THE EARTH, THE BIBLE SAYS IN 53:3, THE BIBLES SAYS HE IS 20:32 DESPISED AND REJECTED OF ME. HOW MANY OF US HERE TONIGHT 20:36 ENJOY BEING HATED? HAVE YOU EVER FEL REJECTION? 20:40 IF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN REJECTED, THAT DOES NOT FEEL GOOD. 20:44 NOW, AGAIN, WHO WAS THIS? THIS WAS THE MAJESTY OF THE 20:49 HEAVENS, AND THE PROPHET SAID HE WOULD BE HATED AND REJECTED. 20:54 JOHN WROTE IN JOHN 1, HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN AT HIS OWN -- DID 21:01 WHAT? RECEIVED HIM NOT. 21:05 IMAGINE THAT. IMAGINE COMIG HOME TO A FAMILY 21:08 REUNION, AND YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE FAMILY FOR THREE OR FOUR OR 21:12 FIVE YEARS, AND YOU CAN'T WAIT. YOU CAN'T WAIT TO SEE MOM AND 21:17 DAD, AND YOU CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, AND 21:21 MY, YOU ARE GOING TO SAY, HOW YOUR CHILDREN HAVE GROWN. 21:26 AND YOU PULL INTO THE DRIVEWAY, AND NOBODY EVEN LOOKS OUT OF THE 21:29 WINDOW. YOU GET OUT OF THE CAR, AND HUNK 21:31 THE HORN, AND NOBODY COMES OUT TO MEET YOU. 21:34 AND YOU WALK INTO THE HOUSE, AND THEY ARE SITTING ARRANGE THE 21:37 TABLE, AND THEY ARE ENJOYING THE FOOD, AND NOBODY EVEN LOOKS UP. 21:41 AND YOU SAY, HEY, Y'ALL, I'M HOME, AND EVERYBODY CARRIES ON 21:46 LIKE YOU WEREN'T EVEN IN THE ROOM, AND THIS DOESN'T CHANGE 21:50 ALL WEEKEND. THIS IS A HOPELESSLY SMALL 21:55 ILLUSTRATION OF WHAT REJECTION MIGHT HAVE BEEN LIKE FOR CHRIST, 21:58 WHO MADE THE UNIVERSE. HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN, AND YET HE 22:03 WAS DESPISED AND REJECTED OF MEN. 22:05 HE WAS A MAN OF SORROWS AND ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF. 22:10 WE HID AS IF IT WERE OUR FACES FROM HIM. 22:12 HE WAS DESPISED, AND WE ESTEEMED HIM NOT. 22:17 WHAT HAPPENED? SURELY HE HAS BORN OUR GRIEFS 22:21 AND CARRIED OUR SORROWS. WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THIS? 22:26 WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THIS PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE. 22:31 THINK ABOUT WHAT JESUS WENT TO. WE DID ESTEEM HIM STRICKEN, 22:40 SMITTEN OF GOD AND AFFLICTED, BUT HE WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR 22:44 TRANSGRESSIONS, HE WAS BRUISED FOR OUR INEQUITIES. 22:52 AND WITH HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED. 22:57 BRUISING AND STRIPES, AND MORE BRUISING, AND HE WAS WOUNDED 23:03 BECAUSE OF OUR SIN WHILE WE WERE SINNERS, CHRIST DIED FOR US. 23:08 IT'S NOT POSSIBLE FOR US TO REALLY CALCULATE, I THINK -- I 23:13 THINK, EVEN APPRECIATE THE ENORMITY OF THE SACRIFICE THAT 23:17 JESUS MADE FOR US. IT'S INCOMPREHENSIBLE. 23:22 I HEAR MYSELF TALKING ABOUT THIS, AND I THINK I'M NOT DOING 23:26 IT JUSTICE. I DON'T THINK SHAKESPEARE COULD 23:29 DO IT JUSTICE. THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE DESIGN 23:33 SON OF GOD WHO DIED SO THAT SINNERS, SINFUL PEOPLE MIGHT 23:37 LIVE. AND HE CAME TO THE EARTH AND 23:40 WHAT DID HE GET? I WONDER IF YOU WOULD TURN WITH 23:45 ME TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 23 -- 27. AND WE'LL WALK THROUGH THIS JUST 23:52 A LITTLE BIT. YOU KNOW THE CRUCIFIXION STORY 24:01 IS KIND OF A LONG ONE. BUT WE'LL BEGIN IN VERSUS 22, 24:05 WHERE IT SAYS PILOT, PILOT SAID TO THEM, WHAT SHALL I DO, THEN, 24:11 WITH THIS JESUS, WHICH IS CALLED CHRIST? 24:14 NOW -- NOW, WHERE WAS JESUS? CAN YOU TELL ME? 24:19 WHERE WAS JESUS WHEN THIS WAS GOING ON? 24:21 HE IS IN PILOT'S JUDGMENT HOLE. WAS THAT A MILE BACK INTO THE 24:26 [ INAUDIBLE ] LIKE A SECRET GOVERNMENT INSTALLATION IN 24:30 COLORADO? WHAT DO YOU THINK THE JUDGMENT 24:32 HOLE WAS IN RELATION TO WHERE PILOT WAS WHEN HE CALLED OUT TO 24:37 THE JEWS. JUST BACK THERE. 24:39 SO PILOT WALKS TO THE DOOR, AND HE CALLS OUT TO THE JEWS, JESUS 24:49 IS IN THE ROOM. WHAT SHALL I DO WITH THIS MAN? 24:52 YOUR LIFE IS IN THE BALANCE. LET'S SAY THAT IS YOU. 24:55 YOU HEAR THE QUESTION, WHAT SHALL I DO WITH THIS MAN? 24:58 AND YOU ARE THINKING, YOU ARE HOPING, I WAN THEM TO SAY, WHAT? 25:04 RELEASE HIM. THAT'S WHAT I WANT. 25:07 THESE ARE MY FELLOW COUNTRYMEN OUT THERE. 25:10 I HEALED SOME OF THEM. I HAVE MINISTERED TO THEM IN 25:13 THEIR STREETS. I HAVE NEVER DONE THEM WRONG ON 25:17 ANY LEVEL. WHAT SHALL I DO THEN WITH THIS 25:21 JESUS? WHICH IS CALLED MESSIAH, AND 25:27 THEY ALL SAY UNTO HIM, IT WAS A UNANIMOUS DECISION. 25:38 LET HIM BE CRUCIFIED. AND I DON'T NEED TO GET INTO THE 25:45 ALL OF THE NITTY GRITTY DETAILS OF CRUCIFIXION WITH YOU, EXCEPT 25:51 THAT WE KNOW IT WAS CALCULATED BY THE WICKED PEOPLE OF THAT DAY 25:56 TO CAUSE MAXIMUM PAIN, AND TO PRODUCE THE MOST UNIMAGINABLY 26:05 GRUESOME OR AWFUL DEATH. THEY SAID PUT HIM TO DEATH. 26:09 DON'T SHOOT HIM. DON'T BEHEAD HIM. 26:12 DON'T HANG HIM. NAIL HIM TO A CROSS SO THAT 26:17 THE -- THE -- THE AFFECTED NERVES CAUSE PAIN TO SHOOT 26:21 THROUGH HIS BODY. PAIN HE CAN'T ESCAPE FROM. 26:25 AND LEAVE HIM THERE. HANG HIM ON THAT CROSS FOR DAYS. 26:29 IT WILL TAKE DAYS FOR THIS MAN TO DIE. 26:33 IN FACT WHILE HE IS STILL DYING BUT TOO WEAK TO CHASE THEM OFF, 26:38 BIRDS WILL LAND ON HIS BODY AND START PICKING AWAY AT WHAT THEY 26:43 CAN FIND. DO THAT TO THEM. 26:45 AND JESUS IS STANDING IN THE JUDGMENT HOLE, AND HE IS 26:49 THINKING TO HIMSELF, WHAT DID I DO TO YOU THAT YOU WOLD WISH 26:54 THAT UPON ME? THE GOVERNOR SAID, WHY? 26:59 WHAT EVIL HAS HE DONE IN LET'S TRANSLATE THAT. 27:04 WHY? HE IS INNOCENT? 27:06 HE'S INNOCENT. AND THE PASSAGE SAYS THAT THEY 27:09 JUST CALLED OUT THE MORE, THY CALLED OUT THE MORE, LET HIM BE 27:14 CRUCIFIED. IT'S LIKE IF YOU WERE AT A 27:16 STADIUM, AND THEY ARE SCREAMING, AND YOU SAY WOW, IT'S LOUD IN 27:20 HERE, AND SUDDENLY SOMETHING HAPPENS, AND THE NOISE LEVEL 27:23 GETS EVEN LOUDER. THEY CRIED OUT THE MORE, JUST 27:28 CRUCIFY HIM. PILOT REALIZES THERE WAS NOTHING 27:31 HE COULD DO. HE WASHED HIS HANDS AND HE SAID 27:36 I'M INNOCENT OF THE BLOOD OF THIS PERSON. 27:40 WASHING HIS HANDS DIDN'T TAKE AWAY HIS GUILT. 27:43 AND ALL OF THE PEOPLE SAID HIS BLOOD BE ON US AND OUR CHILDREN. 27:49 THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS HAD MORE TO DO WITH NAILS. 27:53 IT WAS REJECTION. HE WAS GIVEN UP FOR DEATH BY THE 27:57 PEOPLE THAT HE LOVED. I DON'T KNOW -- I DON'T MEAN TO 28:01 STRETCH THIS TOO TERRIBLY FAR. MAYBE THERE WERE RELATIVES IN 28:04 THAT CROWD. IT IS CERTAINLY POSSIBLE. 28:12 THE BIBLE SAYS, IMAGINE THIS, THEN PILOT RELEASED BARABUS UNTO 28:23 THEM. SO YOU ARE JESUS, YOU HAVE MADE 28:25 THE WORLD, SO THAT PILOT AND THE PEOPLE OUT THERE COULD BE SAVED 28:29 AND NOT LOST. YOU ARE GOING TO GO DIE WHILE A 28:34 WICKED MAN IS SET FREE IN YOUR PLACE. 28:38 THE PEOPLE OUT THERE ESTEEMED THIS MURDEROUS MAN MORE HIGHLY 28:43 THAN THEY ESTEEMED JESUS. HIS SACRIFICE. 28:51 AND WHEN HE HAD SCOURGED JESUS, WHIPPED HIM, SO THAT THAT 28:56 IMPLEMENT OF PUNISHMENT WAS TEARING FLESH OFF OF HIS BODY, 29:00 HE DELIVERED HIM TO BE CRUCIFIED. 29:04 THEY TOOK JESUS, THEY GATHERED THE SOLDIERS, AND LOOK, VERSE 29:10 28, AND THEY STRIPPED LIMB. THIS WAS JESUS, WHO LOST ALL OF 29:16 HIS DIGNITY, NOT THAT HE WAS NOT DIGNIFIED. 29:20 THEY STRIPPED HIM. CRUCIFIXION VICTIMS WERE 29:24 CRUCIFIED NAKED. THIS WAS JESUS. 29:28 AND HE WENT THROUGH THAT. HIS SACRIFICE. 29:32 THEY PUT ON HIM A SCARLET ROBE THEN. 29:34 THEY PLANTED A CROWN OF THORNS, PUT IT ON HIS HEAD, THEY BOWED 29:42 BEFORE HIM AND MACHED HIM. SAYING HAIL THE KING OF THE 29:50 JEWS. WHEN I WON'T TO CHURCH THERE WAS 29:53 A CRUCIFIX. THERE WAS A DOT OF BLOOD ON ONE 29:58 HAND ONE ON THE OTHER, AND THIS WAS THE MOST SANITIZED 30:03 CRUCIFIXION THAT YOU COULD EVEN IMAGINE. 30:06 FRANKLY IT DIDN'T LOOK THAT BAD. I WILL SAY THIS, THAT AS A KID I 30:10 WOULD SEE THAT CRUCIFIXION, AND I WOULD SAY TO MYSELF, THIS MAN 30:14 LOVED ME. HE DIED FOR ME. 30:16 I COULD NEVER SHAKE THAT OFF. IT SPOKE TO ME. 30:19 BUT THERE IS YEAST -- DO YOU KNOW WHAT HE LOOKED LIKE -- HAVE 30:23 YOU EVER SEEN ANYBODY GET A CUT ON THEIR HEAD? 30:25 IT LOOKS LIKE A BOMB EXPLODED, BECAUSE IF YOU CUT YOUR HEAD, IT 30:30 BLEEDS LIKE CRAZY. JESUS HAS CUTS ALL OVER HIS 30:35 HEAD, BLOOD POURED DOWN HIM. IT POURED DOWN HIS FACE. 30:38 IT GOT IN HIS BEARD. IT RAN DOWN HIS BACK. 30:44 JESUS WAS BLOODY, COVERED IN BLOOD. 30:48 AND THEY SPIT ON HIM. HOW MUCH CONTEMPT DO YOU HAVE TO 30:53 HOLE SOMETHING IN ORDER TO SPIT ON IT. 30:57 AND THEY TOOK THE REED AND WHACKED HIM ON THE HEAD. 31:02 NOW THESE THROWNS ARE BEING DRIVEN INTO HIS SKULL. 31:06 AND THIS IS WHAT JESUS WENT THROUGH FOR US.-IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND 31:10 THE MAGNITUDE OF IT, BUT IT'S A IMPORTANT THAT WE THINK ABOUT 31:13 IT, AND THINK ABOUT WHAT OUR JESUS WENT THROUGH. 31:16 AND AFTER THEY MACHED HIM, THEY PUT HIS OWN CLOTHES ON HIM. 31:23 SIMON CARRIED THE CROSS, THEY GAVE HIM VINEGAR TO DRINK. 31:33 THAT WOULD HAVE NUMBED HIS SENSES JUST A LITTLE BIT, 31:36 ENABLING HIM TO ENDURE MORE PAIN AND SUFFER LONGER. 31:39 IT THE END IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN GOOD FOR HIM, BUT IN THAT 31:44 MOMENT, A DESPERATE MAN WOULD SAY BRING ON THAT TEMPORARY 31:48 NUMBNESS. BUT JESUS SAID, NO, NO, THAT 31:52 NUMBNESS WOULD CLOUD MY SENSES, AND MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR 31:55 ME AND MY FATHER TO HAVE THAT CLOSE CONNECTION THAT WE NEED 32:01 RIGHT NOW. HE EVEN FORTOOK WHAT LITTLE 32:05 COMFORT HE COULD HAVE HAD, BECAUSE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN 32:08 BETTER FOR YOU. AND THEN VERSE 35 SAYS, AND THEY 32:13 CRUCIFIED HIM. IT WAS DARK. 32:19 EVEN THE SUN WOULDN'T SHINE ON JESUS IN THAT MOMENT. 32:23 HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO THE CROSS IN YOUR MIND? 32:25 HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THERE? IT WASN'T MAN CURED. 32:29 IT WASN'T LIKE A THESE CEMETERIES WITH THE BEAUTIFUL 32:33 LAWNS -- MAYBE CEMETERY IS NOT THE RIGHT IMAGE I WANT TO EVOKE 32:38 HERE.-IT WASN'T SOME PALATIAL GROUNDS. IT WAS A ROCKY, SCABBY LOOKING 32:48 PLACE. NOT A NICE PLACE TO DIE. 32:53 WHO WERE THERE? ONLOOKERS? 32:55 THE CURIOUS. THE ACCUSERS, WAGGING THEIR 32:59 TONGUES AND REVIALING HIM. JESUS IS ON THE CROSS. 33:03 HE HEARS HIS MOTHER WEEPING. HE LOOKS IN THE SHADOWS FOR HIS 33:09 CLOSEST FRIENDS, BUT THEY HAVE ALL FORSAKEN HIM AND FLED. 33:14 JESUS IS ALONE. WHAT DO YOU HEAR AT CAVALRY? 33:24 YOU HERE ONE THIEF CURSING. YOU MIGHT HERE THE ONES 33:34 BICKERING BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS. 33:36 YOU HEAR JESUS MOTHER AND SOME OF THE OTHER WOMEN SOBBING. 33:40 THERE IS A CROWD OF WOME GATHERED AROUND MARY, THEY ARE 33:44 COMFORTING HER. THEY ARE HELPING HER. 33:48 WHAT DO YOU SMELL AT THE CROSS? WHAT DO YOU SMELL WHEN YOU WERE 33:53 THERE? DO YOU SMELL 33:54 THAT -- THAT -- THAT SMELL OF A LOT OF BLOOD? 33:57 YOU KNOW I USED TO WORK IN A HOSPITAL LAUNDRY. 34:01 I DIDN'T KNOW THAT BLOOD HAD A CERTAIN SMELL UNTIL I SMELLED 34:06 GALLONS OF IT AT A TIME. IT'S NOT PRETTY. 34:11 NOW I DON'T MEAN TO BE TOO UGLY ABOUT THIS. 34:14 BUT I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT THE REALITY OF WHAT JESUS WENT 34:18 THROUGH. DID THEY GIVE THE MEN O THE 34:20 CROSS BATHROOM BREAKS? AND DO YOU THINK IN THEIR AGONY 34:23 THEY WERE ABLE TO CONTROL THEM 34:28 THEMSELVES? WHAT CAN YOU SMELL AT THE CROSS? 34:29 WHAT DO YOU SEE WHEN YOU LOOK THROUGH THE GLOOM? 34:33 WHAT DO YOU SEE? YOU FWHOE -- KNOW WHAT I DON'T 34:40 UNDERSTAND. I WAS IN LONDON, AND WHEN 34:44 EXECUTIONS USED TO TAKE PLACE, PEOPLE WOULD FLOCK, THEY WOULD 34:48 FLOCK. WE'RE GOING TO LIGHT A MARTYR ON 34:51 FIRE. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE ONE OF THESE 34:54 CHRISTIANS AND BURN HER TO DEATH. 34:56 THE PEOPLE WOULD GATHER TO WATCH. 34:57 I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT. I WOULD BE TRAUMATIZED BY THAT. 35:01 I DON'T WANT TO SEE SOMEONE BEHEADED OR BURNED. 35:04 I DON'T WANT TO LISTEN TO THAT. BUT THERE WAS A CROWD OF PEOPLE 35:07 AS THESE WERE BEING EXECUTED. WHAT IMPRESSION DOES THAT MAKE 35:11 ON YOU? WHAT DOES IT SOUND LIKE WHEN YOU 35:14 HEAR A NAIL BEING DRIVEN THROUGH A HAND OR WRIST. 35:19 WHAT DOES IT SOUND LIKE WHEN A LARGE NAIL IS DRIVEN TO THE 35:23 FEET. CRUNCH. 35:24 WHAT ARE YOU HEARING WHE YOU SEE -- WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING 35:28 WHEN SOMEONE IS IN AGONY, AND THEY ARE WRITHING IN PAIN ON THE 35:33 CROSS, AND YOU ARE WATCHING THAT, AND YOU SAY, WOULD 35:37 SOMEBODY STOP THIS! TAKE THEM DOWN! 35:41 BUT OF COURSE NOBODY WOULD, BECAUSE THAT'S HOW THEY DID 35:44 THINGS. AND YOU ARE AT THE CROSS, AND 35:46 YOU ARE TAKING IT IN, AND YOU ARE GOING TO END UP WITH 35:50 POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, FROM HAVING WATCHED SOME OF THIS 35:55 STUFF. AND YOU WALK AWAY FROM THE 35:57 CROSS. HOW HAS IT AFFECTED YOU? 36:01 AND HOW IS IT AFFECTING YOU WHEN YOU STOP AND THINK THAT WHAT WAS 36:06 DONE THERE WAS DONE FOR YOU >> OF COURSE I'M MISSING THE 36:11 MAIN POINT. YOU KNOW I AM. 36:13 IT WASN'T THE SUFFERING OR REJECTION, THE MAIN POINT, HE 36:18 WAS MADE TO BE SIN FOR US. JESUS TOOK OUR SIN. 36:23 IT WAS SIN THAT KILLED JESUS, NOT A NAIL, NOT A SPEAR, NOT A 36:28 CROWN OF THORNS, NOT ABUSE. IT WAS SIN. 36:32 WE UNDERSTAND, IT HAS BEEN SAID A THOUSAND TIMES, CHRIST DIED OF 36:36 A BROKEN HEART. HIS HEART RUPTURED WITHIN HIM. 36:40 BECAUSE HE BECAME SIN FOR US. THINK OF WHAT JESUS WENT 36:43 THROUGH. THE SPOT LESSON OF GOD, WHO HAD 36:48 EXISTED FROM ETERNITY, AND NOW HE FINDS HIMSELF 2,000 YEARS AGO 36:52 ON A CROSS, NEVER EVER COMMITTED SIN EVEN BY A THOUGHT, NEVER 36:58 WANTED TO, AND NOW THE SINS OF HUMANITY ARE HEAPED UPON HIM, 37:06 AND HE MUST BEAR THEM AND DIE FOR THEM. 37:09 NOW, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I WOULD LIKE YOU TO STOP AND 37:11 THINK, WHAT KIND OF RETCHED PERSON WOULD DO THAT TO JESUS? 37:18 THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE CRUCIFYING HIM, SLAPPING HIM, 37:21 TUGGING ON HIS BEARD, HITTING HIM OVER THE HEAD. 37:26 THINK ABOUT THAT. WHAT KIND OF PERSON WOULD NAIL 37:29 JESUS TO A CROSS? THAT IS THE KIND OF PERSON WHO 37:32 IS SITTING NEXT TO THE PERSON SITTING NEXT TO YOU. 37:38 [ LAUGHTER ] >> AND I DON'T MEAN TWO OVER. 37:42 YOU SEE IT WAS US WHO NAILED JESUS TO THE CROSS. 37:45 ALL OF THOSE THINGS HE WENT THROUGH. 37:47 HE WENT THROUGH TO DEAL WITH OUR SIN, YOUR SIN. 37:50 I TELL YOU WHAT, SHOULDN'T THIS JUST DRIVE YOU AWAY FROM SIN? 37:57 SHOULDN'T YOU SWALLOW YOU UP SO THAT WHEN TEMPTATION COMES, YOU 38:05 SAY I DON'T THAT? SHOULDN'T IT MAKE YOU LOVE 38:08 SOMEBODY WHO WAS WILLING TO DO THAT FOR YOU? 38:12 JESUS CAME SIN FOR US, SO THAT WE MIGHT BE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF 38:16 GOD IN HIM. JESUS WENT TO THE VERY DEPTHS SO 38:22 WE COULD BE ELEVATED TO HEIGHTS UNIMAGINABLE. 38:25 THIS IS JESUS. HIS SACRIFICE. 38:28 AND THIS WEEKEND WE TALK ABOUT HIS SACRIFICE AND OURS. 38:33 WAIT A MINUTE. WE SACRIFICE? 38:36 IN THE LIGHT OF THAT? DO WE HAVE ANYTHING EVEN TO CALL 38:40 A SACRIFICE? WE'RE GOING TO THINK ABOUT 38:43 ANYTHING WE SHOULD GO THROUGH AS A SACRIFICE? 38:45 IT'S PRETTY HARD TO THINK ABOUT THAT. 38:50 JESUS DIED FOR US. HE BECAME SIN FOR US, SO WE 38:54 MIGHT BE MADE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM. 38:57 JESUS SAID, I'LL TAKE THE HIT SO THEY CAN WEAR THE CROWN. 39:03 I'LL TAKE THE DIRT, SO THEY CAN BE CLEAN. 39:06 I'LL BE LOWERED, SO THEY CAN BE ELEVATED. 39:09 JESUS BECAME SIN FOR US. IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE THAT 39:14 SACRIFICE. WERE YOU THERE PLACING HIS BODY 39:16 IN THE TOMB, PERHAPS YOU WOULD HAVE A BETTER IDEA. 39:19 IT WAS JOHN WHO CRIED OUT IN JOHN 1:25, BEHOLD THE LAMB OF 39:28 GOD. JESUS UNDERSTOOD WHAT THIS 39:29 MEANT. HE HEARS JOHN'S WORD, AND HE 39:32 SAYS, YES, I'M GOING TO THE CROSS. 39:34 I'M GOING TO DIE, BUT I'LL DO IT. 39:36 I WILL DO IT FOR THEM. I WILL DIE SO THAT THEY MIGHT 39:40 LIVE. IT'S NOT EASY TO GET YOUR HEAD 39:42 AROUND, BUT WE CAN ACCEPT IT AS FACT, AND ALLOW IT TO SEEP DEEP 39:46 DOWN IN OUR SOULS THAT JESUS SACRIFICED EVERYTHING, WALKED 39:50 AWAY FROM HEAVEN WITHOUT ANY GUARANTEE THAT HE WOULD SUCCEED. 39:54 LEFT HIS THROWN, AND CAME ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THIS EARTH TO 40:00 DIE SO THAT WE MIGHT LIVE. THAT, FRENIEND, IS A SACRIFICE. 40:08 SO WHAT IS OUR SACRIFICE? WHEN YOU BECOME A CHRISTIAN, YOU 40:12 HAVE TO STOP SMOKING AND DRINKING. 40:14 YOU HAVE TO GOT TO GIVE IT UP. YOU GOT TO STOP RUNNING AROUND. 40:18 YOU GOT TO GIVE IT UP. YOU HAVE TO GIVE AWAY 10% OF 40:22 YOUR INCOME. WHAT ELSE? 40:23 YOU GOT TO GIVE UP DAY, BECAUSE THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE 40:28 SABBATH AND YOU GOT TO KEEP THAT HOLY. 40:30 IT ALL SEEMS PRETTY SMALL, DOESN'T IT? 40:33 AND OF COURSE NONE OF THAT SACRIFICE IS NOT SACRIFICE TO 40:36 TURN AWAY FROM SIN. IT'S NOT SACRIFICE TO ACCEPT A 40:39 GIFT FROM GOD. IT'S NOT SACRIFICE TO BE 40:43 FAITHFUL TO GOD, KNOWING THAT HE-SAYS WHEN YOU DO THIS, I'LL BLESS YOU MORE THAN YOU CAN EVEN 40:49 IMAGINE. HIS SACRIFICE AND OURS? 40:53 I'M LOOKING FOR THE SACRIFICE. WE GAIN. 40:58 WE WIN. WE MAKE ON THE DEAL. 41:00 JESUS TAKES THE BROKEN AND MAKES US WHOLE. 41:06 HE TAKES THE IMPERFECT AND GIVES US PERFECTION. 41:11 THERE IS NO SACRIFICE ON OUR PART, BUT I UNDERSTAND THE 41:16 SUGGESTION, AND I WOULD LIKE US TO THINK IT THROUGH JUST A 41:19 LITTLE BIT. MATTHEW 9:13, JESUS SAID GO AND 41:23 LEARN WHAT THAT MEANTH. I WILL HAVE MERCY AND NOT 41:28 SACRIFICE. WHEN YOU READ IN MICAH 6, HE 41:34 SAYS TO DO JUSTLY, AND WALK HUMBLY WITH YOUR GOD. 41:40 WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SACRIFICE, WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY? 41:44 ROMANS 12:1, I BESEECH YOU THAT YOU PRESENT YOUR BODIES, A 41:50 LIVING SACRIFICE. HOLY ACCEPTABLE UNDER GOD, THEN 41:53 IT SAYS BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD, BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY 41:58 THE -- COME ON -- BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND. 42:04 SACRIFICE? YOU KNOW WHAT GOD WANTS? 42:07 HE WANTS OUR LIVES AND HEARTS. THE SACRIFICE WE OFFER GOD IS 42:11 US. DON'T THINK FOR A MOMENT THAT HE 42:14 THINKS THAT YOUR -- YOUR MONEY, OR YOUR TIME, OR YOUR THIS OR 42:19 YOUR THAT SHOULD BE REGARDED AS A SACRIFICE. 42:22 THAT COMES AS AN INEVITABLE WHEN YOU OFFER YOUR HEART TO GOD AND 42:28 YOU LET HIM CLEAN YOU UP. GOD SAYS WHAT I WANT IS YOUR 42:31 HEART. THAT'S WHAT I WANT. 42:33 THE WRITER OF PROVERBS SAID HEAP YOUR HEART [ INAUDIBLE ] GOD 42:40 WANTS OUR HEART. IF WE CAN GET YOUR HEART, HE CAN 42:44 CLEAN US UP AND KEEP US. THERE'S NO SACRIFICE WHEN YOU 42:47 COME TO GOD. IT DOESN'T COST YOU ANYTHING. 42:52 NOW I UNDERSTAND THIS. THERE MIGHT BE SOME WHO SAY HOLD 42:55 ON A MINUTE, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I HAVE GONE THROUGH. 42:59 WE WERE IN MOLDOVA EARLIER THIS YEAR, AND ONE OF OUR -- IT IS 43:04 WRITTEN TEAM WAS CONDUCTING AN EVANGELISTIC SERIES, AND HAD A 43:10 TRANSLATOR WHO WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN, AT LEAST NOT AN 43:15 ADVENTIST. HE FELT IMPRESSED THAT HE NEEDED 43:17 TO SPEAK TO HER AND SAY, HOW ARE YOU BEING AFFECTED BY WHAT YOU 43:21 ARE HEARING? SHE SAID, YOU KNOW, IF I 43:26 ACCEPTED THIS MESSAGE, I WOULD LOSE MY FAMILY, MY HUSBAND WOULD 43:31 DIVORCE ME. MY PARENTS WOULD AWES ARE SIZE 43:35 ME. BECAUSE THEY ARE MEMBERS OF THE 43:38 ORTHODOX CHURCH. LATER WHEN THEY WERE AT -- A 43:42 CHURCH MEMBERS HOME EATING, THAT CHURCH MEMBER SHARED HIS 43:47 TESTIMONY. OF COURSE EVERYTHING HAD TO BE 43:49 TRANSLATED THROUGH THIS TRANSLATOR. 43:51 WHATEVER WAS ASKED AND WHATEVER WAS ANSWERED. 43:54 AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW, WHEN I CAME INTO THE CHURCH, IT WAS SO 43:57 DIFFERENT THAT MY WIFE THREATENED TO DIVORCE ME. 44:01 MY FRIENDS SAID THEY WOULDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH ME. 44:04 THE REST OF MY FAMILY THOUGHT I WAS OUT OF MY MIND. 44:12 IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN THROUGH THAT, THAT IS GOING TO BE 44:15 DIFFICULT. AND HE SAID, IT TOOK A COUPLE OF 44:18 YEARS, BUT MY WIFE BEGAN TO JOIN ME IN CHURCH. 44:21 AND OUR CHILDREN STARTED TO SEE THE SENSE OF WHAT I WAS DOING, 44:24 AND MY FRIENDS STARTED TO WARM UP TO ME AGAIN, AND IT WASN'T 44:28 TOO LONG AFTER THAT, THAT MY WIFE WAS BAPTIZED AND OUR 44:32 CHILDREN WERE BAPTIZED. SOMETIMES GOD CALLS US INTO 44:36 DIFFICULT PLACES. WE FEEL LIKE WE'RE SACRIFICING 44:39 SOMETHING, BUT WHAT WE'RE DOING IS ALLOWING GOD TO WORK HIS 44:43 PURPOSES OUT IN OUR LIFE. YOU CAN'T ALWAYS KNOW HOW GOD IS 44:46 GOING TO WORK, AND SOMETIMES HE LEADS YOU INTO SITUATIONS THAT 44:49 YOU MIGHT RATHER AVOID SO THAT THROUGH YOUR WITNESS IN THAT 44:52 SITUATION, SOMEBODY IS GOING TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND 44:55 TO THE GO AHEADNESS AND THE GRACE OF GOD. 44:58 I DON'T MEAN TO BE INSENSITIVE.-I UNDERSTAND THAT SOMETIMES PEOPLE GO THROUGH A LOT. 45:04 I WANT TO TELL YOU A STORY ABOUT MY FRIEND TOMMY. 45:09 TOMMY LIVES IN IRE -- IRELAND. AND WE WERE FILMING IN IRELAND 45:18 FOR 500 THIS YEAR. HE SAID TO THE BOSS, IF I TAKE 45:21 THIS JOB, I CANNOT WORK FROM SUNDOWN FRIDAY TO SUNDOWN 45:26 SATURDAY, I JUST CAN'T DO IT. BECAUSE I'M A SEVENTH-DAY 45:31 ADVENTIST. AND THE BOSS SAID THAT'S NO 45:34 PROBLEM. TOMMY GIVED IN GOLWAY IN 45:38 IRELAND. ONE FRIDAY EVENING, THE BOSS 45:41 CONTACTED TOMMY AND SAID I NEED YOU TO RUN DOWN TO LIMERICK. 45:45 THAT'S MORE THAN AN HOUR AWAY. TOMMY I CAN'T DO THAT. 45:50 THE BOSS SAID I REALLY NEED YOU TO DO IT. 45:52 IF YOU DON'T DO IT. I'LL FIRE YOU. 45:56 AND TOMMY SAID, THERE'S ONLY ONE THING I CAN DO HERE. 46:00 AND THAT'S OBEY GOD, BECAUSE I -- I COULDN'T. 46:05 I WOULDN'T. HE CAME INTO WORK ON MONDAY AND 46:09 HE WAS FIRED. AND HE SAID TO HIS WIFE THAT 46:12 EVENING. WHAT DO WE DO? 46:14 AND HE SAID WE JUST TRUST GOD. AND SO THAT'S WHAT THEY DID. 46:18 AND THE NEXT DAY, YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? 46:22 NOTHING. NOTHING HAPPENED. 46:23 [ LAUGHTER ] >> NOTHING HAPPENED. 46:25 I KNOW I SET YOU UP FOR THAT. [ LAUGHTER ] 46:28 >> TWO DAYS LATER, THREE DAYS -- A WEEK! 46:35 TWO WEEKS, NOTHING! AND THEN THE PHONE RANG. 46:41 SOMEONE HE DIDN'T KNOW SAID YOU ARE A DRIVER? 46:45 YES. WE NEED SOMEBODY TO DRIVE THE 46:47 BIG MACHINE THAT SWEEPS THE STREETS FOR THE CITY COUNCIL. 46:52 HE SAID I DON'T MIND DOING THAT. THAT'S SOMETHING I WOULD DO. 46:55 AND I WOULD ENJOY. HE SAID I CAN'T WORK SATURDAYS.-YOU WILL NEVER NEED TO. 47:02 BUT WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO WORK SUNDAYS. 47:05 >> YES. >> YOU DO KNOW YOU GET PAID 47:07 OVERTIME RATES FOR WORKING SUNDAYS. 47:09 HE SAID I DON'T MIND THAT EITHER. 47:11 THAT WILL BE OKAY. [ LAUGHTER ] 47:13 >> SO HE GETS A NEW JOB, EARNING MORE MONEY THAN HE EARNED IN HIS 47:18 PREVIOUS JOB. BUT THE STORY GETS REALLY GOOD 47:20 WHEN HE GETS DOWN TO RETIREMENT. THEY CALCULATED HIS RETIREMENT. 47:26 HE WAS EXPECTING A LUMP SUM PAYMENT AT RETIREMENT OF X. 47:30 THEY SAID, WELL, YOU HAVE WORKED ALL OF THESE OVERTIME HOURS DOWN 47:34 THROUGH THE YEAR, SO YOU NOW GET A LUMP SUM PAYMENT OF 2X. 47:42 THERE WAS ANOTHER ALLOWANCE COMING TO HIM. 47:45 THAT WAS DOUBLED AS WELL. AND THEN HE WAS RECEIVING OTHER 47:48 INCOME ON TOP OF THAT. CAN YOU SAY PRAISE THE LORD? 47:53 YOU SEE THAT'S WHAT GOD DOES. IT WAS A TIME OF DIFFICULTY. 47:57 A TIME OF SACRIICE. OF COURSE IT WAS. 48:01 BUT WITHIN WEEKS, GOD HAD MOVED THINGS AROUND SO THAT HE WAS 48:05 DOING OKAY. AND WITHOUT HIM REALIZING 48:09 OVERTIME HE WAS ACCRUING THE MOTHER OF ALL BLESSINGS, THE 48:12 SORT OF THING HE NEVER EVEN IMAGINED. 48:15 YOU SHOULD NOT BE AFRAID OF STRETCHING FOR GOD. 48:19 YOU JUST SHOULDN'T. YOU SHOULDN'T THINK EVEN FOR A 48:22 MOMENT IF YOU OBEY GOD YOU ARE GOING TO COME OFF SECOND BEST, 48:26 EVEN IF IT LOOKS LIKE YOU WILL. AND I CAN'T PROMISE YOU THAT YOU 48:30 ARE GOING TO DO OKAY IN THIS WORLD, BUT I CAN PROMISE YOU 48:34 THAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO OKAY IN THE WORLD TO COME. 48:38 AND WHEN JESUS COMES BACK, WE ARE GOING TO FORGET ABOUT 48:41 WHATEVER WE WENT THROUGH, AND ALL WE'LL REMEMBER IS THAT JESUS 48:44 IS HERE, AND HE HAS COME TO TAKE US HOME. 48:47 WE'LL BE GLAD OF THAT. LET ME SHARE A STORY WITH YOU 48:53 FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT. THE KING WAS 25 YEARS OLD. 48:58 HE DID THAT WHICH WAS RIGHT IN THE SIDE OF THE LORD, BUT NOT 49:02 WITH A PERFECT HEART. AND SO WHAT HAPPENED HERE? 49:05 HE WAS IN DIFFICULTY. HE WAS FACING WARFARE. 49:10 IT SAYS IN VERSE 6, HE HIRED 100,000 MIGHTY MEN OF VALOR OUT 49:17 OF ISRAEL, AND PLAYED A 100 TALONS OF SILVER. 49:22 I'M SURE THAT IS A GOOD SUM OF MONEY. 49:25 HE HIRED ISRAELI SOLDIERS, OR SHOULD I SAY SOLDIERS FROM THE 49:29 KINGDOM OF ISRAEL RATHER THAN FROM JUDAH. 49:32 PAID MONEY. HE WAS GOING TO BE SWEET NOW, 49:34 BECAUSE WITH ALL OF THAT MANPOWER, THEY WOULD WIN THE 49:38 POWER. VERSE 7, BUT THERE CAME A MAN OF 49:40 GOD TO HIM, SAYING, OH, KING, 2 CHRONICLES 25:7. 49:47 DO NOT LET THE ARMY OF ISRAEL GO WITH YOU. 49:50 FOR THE LORD IS NOT WITH ISRAEL WITH ALL OF THE CHILDREN OF 50:01 EFRAN. AND HE SAID HOLD ON A MOMENT. 50:04 I PAID A HUNDRED TALONS OF SILVER, IF I LISTEN TO WHAT GOD 50:10 SAYS, I'M GOING TO BE OUT. I CAN'T AFFORD THAT KIND OF A 50:13 LOSS. THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY. 50:16 ARE YOU SURE? NOTICE WHAT THE BIBLE SAID. 50:19 THE MAN OF GOD ANSWERED, THE LORD IS ABLE TO GIVE YOU MUCH 50:28 MORE THAN THIS. COME ON AND SAY AMEN. 50:30 >> AMEN! >> YOU DO THE RIGHT THING FOR 50:32 GOD, THERE IS NOTHING THAT YOU LOSE. 50:34 IF YOU ARE GOING TO LEAVE MONEY ON THE TABLE BECAUSE YOU ARE 50:38 CHOOSING TO HONOR GOD, CLAIM THE PROMISE. 50:41 GOD IS ABLE TO GIVE YOU MUCH MORE THAN THAT. 50:44 BESIDES IT'S NOT MONEY YOU WANT, IT'S THE BLESSING OF GOD. 50:48 IT'S THE SMILE OF GOD. IT'S NOT RICHING YOU WANT. 50:51 IT'S THE APPROVAL OF GOD. IT'S THE SATISFACTION OF KNOWING 50:56 YOU HAVE YIELDED IN YOUR HEART TO JESUS. 50:59 YOU WOULD SERVE GOD EVEN IF THERE IS NOTHING IN IT FOR YOU. 51:02 BECAUSE YOU ARE THINKING OF JESUS HANGING ON THE CROSS. 51:05 PEOPLE YELLING, REJECTING, BEATING, JESUS IS GROANING AND 51:14 WINCING AND WRITHING IN PAIN. AND YOU SAY, HOLD ON A MINUTE. 51:18 THAT IS A SACRIFICE. WHAT I'M GOING THROUGH, THAT'S 51:21 KIND OF NOTHING IN COMPARISON. THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF THE 51:25 SACRIFICE OF CHRIST, AND THEN IT SPEAKS OF OUR SACRIFICE. 51:29 GOD WANTS OUR HEARTS. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WHEN HE 51:32 HAS OUR HEARTS, HE HAS OUR OBEDIENCE. 51:38 1 SAMUEL 15. WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT STORY? 51:40 SAMUEL SAYS TO THE KING, GO DOWN AND KILL ALL OF THE AMALL KITES. 51:48 KILL THEM ALL. I WANT YOU TO KILL EVERY LAST 51:51 ONE OF THEM. 1 SAMUEL 15, AND I'M GOING TO 51:54 CHECK A DETAIL TO MAKE SURE I HAVE MY FACTS STRAIGHT HERE, 51:58 BECAUSE I WOULD HATE TO BE OFF. HE SAID YOU GO DOWN THERE AND 52:02 KILL THEM. YES, IT WAS THE AMALLAKITES. 52:14 THAT WAS SEVERE, BUT GOD KNEW IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR THEM TO BE 52:20 SLAIN THAN TO BE ALLOWED TO LIVE. 52:22 SO DOWN THEY WENT. AND THERE WAS A WONDERFUL 52:25 VICTORY. THEY RIPE -- WIPED THEM OUT. 52:31 IT WAS DECISIVE. HE KILLED ALL OF THE PEOPLE, BUT 52:35 DIDN'T KILL THE KING. AND THEY SPARED AGAG. 52:39 AND THE REST OF THE SHEEP, OX -- ONNING SIN AND LAMB. 52:52 HAD HE OBEYED GOD OR NOT? >> NO. 52:56 >> HE KIND OF CLAIM CLOSE TO OBEYING GOD. 53:02 KILLED EVERYBODY ELSE, JUST NOT THE KING. 53:05 DESTROYED ALL OF THE ANIMALS, JUST NOT THE GOOD ONES. 53:09 HE COME BACKS TO TOWN. I IMAGINE PROUD WIVES, ANXIOUS 53:14 WIVES WAITING TO WELCOME THEIR HUSBANDS BACK. 53:21 BUT GOD ALREADY S SAID -- [ INAUDIBLE ]? 53:28 DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEANT? [ LAUGHTER ] 53:30 >> FOR HE FOLLOWED BACK FROM TURNING ME. 53:32 [ LAUGHTER ] >> YOU DID GOOD THE FIRST TIME. 53:37 NOT SO GOOD THE SECOND TIME. [ LAUGHTER ] 53:41 >> IT REPENTHTH ME THAT I HAVE SET UP SOL TO BE THE KING, FOR 53:45 HE HAS NOT PERFORMED MY COMMANDMENTS. 53:49 IT GRIEVED SAMUEL. HE CRIED TO THE LORD ALL NIGHT. 53:52 AND WHEN SOL ARRIVED BACK IN TOWN, HE SAID BLESSED BE THE 53:57 NAME OF THE LORD. I HAVE PERFORMED THE COMMANDMENT 54:02 OF THE LORD. AND SAMUEL SAID I AM HEARING THE 54:08 BLEATING OF SHEEP.-AND SOL STARTED SIDE STEPPING. THEY SPARED THE BEST, BECAUSE WE 54:13 ARE GOING TO SACRIFICE THEM TO GOD. 54:16 THE REST WE DESTROYED. ULTIMATELY WHAT THE PROPHET SAID 54:23 TO THE KING WAS TO OBEY IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE. 54:28 AND TO HARKEN BETTER THAN THE [ INAUDIBLE ] OF RAMS. 54:33 IF YOU WANT TO SACRIFICE ANYTHING TO GOD, JUST GIVE HIM A 54:37 SINFUL HEART. THAT'S ALL, AND THEN LET HIM 54:39 INTO YOUR LIFE. WE'LL TALK ABOUT THIS MORE OVER 54:43 THE WEEKEND. OBEYING IS WHAT HAPPENED IN YOUR 54:46 LIFE WHEN YOU SURRENDER TO GOD. WORK YOURSELF UP INTO A LATHER 54:51 TRYING TO BE A GOOD CHRISTIAN. YOU SURRENDER TO GOD AND PRAY 54:55 AND DEMAND THAT JESUS DOES THE WORK IN YOU, THAT YOU CAN'T DO 54:58 IN YOURSELF. SACRIFICE. 55:00 WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO SACRIFICE FOR GOD? 55:03 A BAD TEMPER? NO, NO, NO. 55:07 YOU GAIN A KIND TEMPER. SACRIFICE IMMORAL BEHAVIOR? 55:12 NO, YOU ARE GOING TO GAIN DIGNITY AND SELF RESPECT. 55:15 YOU ARE GOING TO SACRIFICE AN ADDICTION. 55:18 SOME OF THOSE THINGS ARE TOUGH, BUT GOD IS TOUGHER. 55:21 AND IT'S NO SACRIFICE TO BE CLEAN AND SOBER. 55:24 THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT ANYWAY. THERE IS NOTHING THAT YOU CAN 55:27 GOING TO CALL A SACRIFICE. JESUS THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD 55:31 COMING DOWN TO EARTH AND BEING NAILED TO A CROSS. 55:35 THAT WAS A SACRISACRIFICE. ABOUT TWO HOURS FROM HERE, THERE 55:41 WAS A MAN BORN AND RAISED WHO -- WHO DID SOMETHING HEROIC. 55:48 HIS NAME WAS ARLAND WILLIAMS. DOES THAT NAME MEAN ANYTHING TO 55:54 YOU? I DON'T EXPECT IT WAS. 55:55 HE WAS BORN AND RAISED 128 MILES FROM WHERE HE WERE RIGHT NOW. 56:02 HE WAS ON BOARD AIR FLORIDA FLIGHT 90, WHICH IN JANUARY OF 56:08 1982 TOOK OFF FROM WHAT IS NOW REAGAN NATIONAL AND CRASHED INTO 56:15 THE POTOMAC RIVER. NOW YOU REMEMBER. 56:18 YOU REMEMBER BECAUSE IT WAS ONLY IN 1982. 56:21 IT WAS 35 YEARS AGO, BUT THAT WAS JUST YESTERDAY. 56:26 EVERYBODY ON BOARD THE PLAIN DIED EXCEPT FOR SIX PEOPLE. 56:30 THEY WERE IN THE ICY POTOMAC RIVER, SIX PEOPLE. 56:35 A HELICOPTER CAME TO RESCUE THEM. 56:39 IMAGINE HANGING ON TO WRECKAGE IN ICY WATER FOR 20 MINUTES. 56:46 THEY LOWERED A FLOATATION DEVICE, AND ARLAND WILLIAMS GIVE 56:54 IT TO ANOTHER ONE. HE DID IT AGAIN AND AGAIN. 56:59 SHE GAVE IT TO A WOMAN, SHE WAS TAKEN TO SAFETY, THE HELICOPTER 57:04 CAME BACK FOR HIM. BUT THE WRECKAGE SHIFTED, IT 57:09 DRAGGED HIM UNDERWATER. HE DROWNED. 57:12 THEY NAMED THE BRIDGE AFTER ARLAND WILLIAMS. 57:16 TIME MAGAZINE WROTE THE MAN IN THE WATER HAD HIS OWN NATURAL 57:21 POWERS. HE FOUGHT WITH CHARITY. 57:24 HE GAVE HIS OWN LIFE. HE WAS THE BEST THAT WE CAN DO. 57:30 ♪ |
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