3ABN Homecoming 2017

Sacrifice

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Participants: John Bradshaw

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Series Code: 17HC

Program Code: 17HC000003A


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.
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