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Good Friday | A Song of Suffering, An Anthem of Victory | Rev Paul Jeyachandran
April 18, 2025 · 41 min
Good Friday SermonA Song of Suffering, An Anthem of VictoryBy Rev Paul Jeyachandran
Series IDMC Movement April 18, 2025 · 41 min · IDMC Movement
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Rev. Paul Jeyachandran leads the Intentional Disciple Making Church (IDMC) Movement, which is all about calling churches back to its disciplemaking roots. Visit us at idmcmovement.com
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0:00 Shall we give the Lord a clap offering church? Hallelujah. What a joy and a privilege for us to study the word of God together in various homes today on this Good Friday. Praise God. I0:12 really thank the Lord for the privilege that all of us have in worshiping the Lord together and to study what Christ has done on the cross of Calvary 2000 years ago. I'm going to take you to0:24 an Old Testament Psalm that points prophetically to what Christ did on the cross, how He suffered and how He achieved the victory on our behalf,0:36 and how salvation is the product that He produced for us. Praise God. Today, I want to take you to Psalm 22. Psalm 22 is a Psalm of David. It is a0:47 lament. It is also a Messianic Psalm. It speaks prophetically of the crucifixion. I want to give you an overview of the Psalm and how to study the Psalm. It has0:59 got 31 verses. So I want to begin the Psalm in verse 1 and verse 2. Just read this with me. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me from the1:11 words of my groaning? You remember this phrase, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? It is a psalm that Jesus Himself quoted on the cross of Calvary. Not only that, here1:23 is an experience of the psalmist David. He says, Oh my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer. And by night I find no rest. David says, God, you seem absent.1:35 You seem silent in my suffering. And then in verse 11, there is a change, but be not far from me for trouble is near and there is none to help. David is looking around1:47 and he feels abandoned because he doesn't have any help. And in verse 19, you will see a shift in the Psalm, But you, oh Lord, do not be far off for you my help, come quickly to my1:59 aid. And then in verse 24, he says, For he has not despised or uphold the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard when he cried to him. In other words, he2:10 says that, Lord, you do not leave the afflicted in their affliction. You do hear their cry. You do step in at the right time. And there is more than suffering. There is salvation. There is a change of tone here.2:22 Look at this in verse 27, all the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord and all the families of the nation shall worship before you. And then in verse 31, the Psalm ends like this. They shall come2:34 and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn that He has done it. I love the way it ends because Psalmist David says that He has done it. That's what will be2:46 proclaimed. It is almost like what Jesus did on the cross, isn't it? He says, It is finished. So here is a beautiful Psalm. It is a Psalm where David2:58 shares his experience, his lament, his deep suffering, but then suddenly there is a twist and it showcases that he moves from suffering to salvation,3:10 that there is a triumph. Yes, it started with tears and cries, but yet there was a triumph in his life and it was proclaimed to the next generation. Now, what a beautiful3:21 psalm. It is a song of suffering, but it's also an anthem of victory. I want to give you 3 lenses of how I see the psalm, because these 3 lenses will give3:33 you a way to look at the Psalm and appreciate it. So Psalm 22, 3 lenses. 1 is poetry because it's a lament of David and it's poetic language. That's why in3:45 poetic language, some things that David is speaking and it's exaggerated version. When he says all the bulls of Bashan are against me, all the evil doers encompass me, you know,3:56 and all the stuff that he lists here, when you read it, it's quite poetic. That's why there's a poetic license and there is an exaggerated version of the suffering that David goes through. Because when you read4:08 historically, David did go through a lot of dark and difficult days, but not like the ones that he's describing here. When he describes here, it's quite exaggerated. It's almost like he has taken4:20 a poetic license to write. But I want you to picture this, that poetry points to the lament, the feeling, the rawness of David's emotions. But at the same time, has a prophetic4:31 picture because it goes beyond David's suffering and it speaks about the second word, passion. It points to prophetically to the cross. You know, the cross, the suffering on the4:43 cross, the crucifixion was not even invented by that time in history. So David has no picture of cross and crucifixion, but yet he could see4:54 prophetically something and he's writing something. And this is where you begin to recognize that God is the author of the whole book of the Bible because he knows how his son 1 day will suffer at the hands of the5:06 Roman empire. And he will be crucified on the cross and die the death of a criminal. And that death is portrayed here in graphic detail. Now that's the passion.5:18 That's the second lens. The third lens is purpose. Why would God take somebody through such suffering? What's the outcome? What's the product? What's the purpose of it? It is the significance of those5:30 suffering is that God moves from suffering to salvation, that indeed all the families of the earth will turn to the Lord and it will be proclaimed from generation to generation that He5:42 has done it. Hallelujah. In other words, that's the gospel being proclaimed. The victory that Christ did on the cross, the victory that Christ gained on our behalf on the5:54 cross. So it goes beyond the suffering to salvation. So as you use these 3 lenses, I want to structure my sermon based on these 3 points. So this is what I want you to6:06 do today and meditate together with me. The 3 key themes in Psalm 22, poetry. In other words, this poetry helps us to perceive the suffering of Christ. Not only that, this6:18 passion, it helps us to ponder the sacrifice of Christ. And not only that, the purpose is to proclaim the salvation of Christ. Let's look at it 1 by 1.6:29 Poetry perceived the suffering of Christ. See, I want you to appreciate, you know, when you have time today, maybe later today, just read the whole Psalm, 31 verses.6:41 I don't have time to read it in this sermon, but I want you to read it because I want you to appreciate the poetic structure. And this poetic structure of the Psalm reflects a6:53 deep lament and suffering. For example, it's David's personal anguish. David is going through something, and he feels like there is a sense of divine absence, absence of the presence7:05 of God. And he feels like, God, are you there in my suffering? And then, but 1 thing you know is that no historical record of David's suffering amounts to what he writes7:17 here. Look at this. He says in verse 1, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me? And you don't hear the words of my groaning. In verse 2, he says, I find no7:28 rest because you do not answer. Then in verse 3, Yet you are Holy. He turns around and he remembers God's faithfulness in verse 3. And then he says in verse 4, In you, our fathers7:40 trusted, they trusted and you delivered them. In verse 5, he says, To you, they cried and were rescued. In you, they trust In verse 5, says, But for some reason, you don't seem7:52 to help me at all. So he says, But I'm a worm and not a man scorned by mankind and despised by the people. Then in verse 7, he says, All who sees me mock me and they make mouths at me. They wag their8:04 heads. In verse 8, he says, He trusts in the Lord. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him for he delights in him. Yet you are he who took me from my mother's womb and you made me trust You at my mother's8:15 breast. In other words, on You I was cast from my birth and from my mother's womb. You have been my God. And then he says, But Lord, even though I know You are so faithful and You have done this for my forefathers,8:27 yet for me, in this situation, trouble is near, in verse 11, and there is none to help. So he's crying out to God and he says, Lord, where are you? And then look at8:39 this, in verse 16 onwards, he says, For dogs encompass me, a company of evil doers encircle me. They have pierced my hands and my feet. I can count all my bones and they stare and gloat over8:51 me. They divide my garments among them and for my clothing, they cast lots. But you, oh Lord, in verse 19, do not be far off for you are my help. Come quickly to my aid. Deliver my soul from the9:03 sword, my precious life from the power of the dog. Save me from the mouth of the lion. You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen. I will tell of your name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation,9:16 I will praise you. Now what do you read here? He's talking about there are dogs that are encompassing me. There are wild lions that are roaring against me. There are wild bulls that are coming over me. They are staring9:27 at my bones and they're making fun of me. They pierce my hands and my feet. He says all these things, they cast lots for my clothes. So when you read it historically, it's not something that9:39 David went through, but David is pointing this and David is saying this, that there's something beyond David. Somebody else is going through that suffering. So this is9:51 where in the poem, it's such a good poetry that when you read it, you see the anguish of David's heart and how God seems silent. But yet he does10:02 say that God, you have been faithful in the past and you will 1 day step in. And I believe you are hearing my cry in verse 24. That's why he says, for you, you have not despised or10:14 uphold the affliction of the afflicted for you have not hidden his face from him. In other words, God, you have not, you have stepped in to help me. That's why there is a change in verse 20. You look at this, he10:26 says, you have delivered my soul from the power of the dog. In verse 21, You saved me from the mouth of the lion. You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen. There's a shift now. And then he10:38 goes on to say in verse 22, I will tell of your name to my brothers in the midst of the congregation. I will praise you. In other words, when you're going through dark and difficult10:50 days, remember this, that God is actually present with you. You may not feel it. You may not understand it. You may not necessarily feel the emotions of joy and peace,11:02 but yet you got to know this, that God is sovereign. God is good. God is wise. God is in control, that God is bringing His purpose has come to pass in my life. And He's outworking something beyond what I see here.11:14 David didn't understand that what he was going through and what he was penning here, he's pointing prophetically to something that is far beyond him. He was talking about the Lord Jesus Christ. 111:26 day that the Lord will suffer at the hands of evildoers. And why would he go through that? Because so that salvation of mankind can be secured. So listen to me. This is the truth I want you to11:38 catch, that God is doing far more than what you see today. That means in this situation that you're in, don't just look around and feel discouraged that there's no 1 to help me. No,11:50 God is actually doing far greater and is performing a far greater purpose in your life and through your life at this point. So that's why I want you to be encouraged on this Good Friday.12:02 So the first point is we got to perceive the suffering of Christ. The second 1 is we got to ponder the sacrifice of Christ, because this Psalm12:15 speaks beyond the suffering of David to the suffering of Christ on the cross. And this is a beautiful description because 1 of the things that you and I need to understand is12:27 when you read the gospels and when you read the crucifixion account in the gospels, the gospel writers sovereignly inspired by the Holy Spirit, they didn't write in graphic detail.12:39 They just kept it to a matter of fact. You know, that he was nailed to the cross. He cried out. They just kept it like that. Whereas in Psalms, there is a graphic detail, what went12:51 through the emotions and how he suffered. You know, don't know whether you have watched this movie Passion of the Christ, directed by Mel Gibson. You know, many times when he portrayed13:02 the suffering of Christ, the Passion of Christ in graphic detail, many people could not stomach it, many people could not digest it. They can't see it. They break down and they cry because it's such graphic detail.13:15 Same thing here. Psalmist gives you a picture of what it was like. But what is amazing is that this happened 1000 years before Jesus walked on13:27 earth. This happened way before the Roman Empire became the government in Jerusalem. This happened way before crucifixion was invented by the13:39 Romans and how they crucified the criminals. Listen, But here in this portrait, in this Psalm 22, you have a graphic detail of what happened at the cross, at the crucifixion on that13:51 day when Jesus was hung on the cross. That's why I firmly believe that God is the author of the Bible, that all the Bible points to Jesus. And14:03 that means when you study the Psalms, when you study the Old Testament, you've got to bring the New Testament into the focus. You've to bring Jesus into the picture. And when you put Jesus into the equation, it comes14:14 alive. Now look at Psalm 22 in a different light. I want to give you the different scenarios that is presented here in Psalm 22 and the same scenario, how it was repeated14:26 in the gospels, how Jesus actually suffered on the cross and some of the things that are listed here prophetically, Jesus fulfilled it. Look at this. The14:38 first 1 is Psalm 20 two:one. He says, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me from the words of my groaning? In Matthew 2seven14:50 46, the Bible says, About the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli, lama, sabbatani? That is, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?15:01 Again, you could say that Jesus knew the Psalm. Jesus memorized pretty much all the Psalms as a good Jew, He would have memorized all the Psalms. And He was15:13 quoting the scriptures on the cross. He was going through the deepest, darkest hour of His life. And in that moment, here's the son of God crying out to15:25 his father. And he didn't call him my father, my father. Instead he calls him my God, my God. In that moment, you can see a separation that sin has done. In other words,15:37 for a moment, the father must have turned his face away from the son because the whole world sin was placed upon Jesus on the cross. And in that moment, Jesus feels the wrath and the agony of15:49 God. And he cries out, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? And that's the Psalm. It was taken right from Psalm 22. What a prophetic picture of what Christ would do on the16:00 cross. The second scene I want you to see is in Psalm 20 two:seven-eight.16:06 Let16:18 words, in their mockery, they say, Here's a man who trusts in the Lord. Let the Lord deliver him. Let's see if God would come in and step in and rescue him. And because God is delighting in him. They are16:30 mocking at Jesus. Are wagging their heads. Is that what happened in the gospels? Yes. Matthew 2seven 39, all the way to verse 43. And those who passed by derided16:42 Him, wagging their heads and saying, you who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in 3 days, save yourself. If you are the son of God, come down from the cross.' So also the chief16:53 priests with the scribes and elders mocked him and saying, 'He saved others. He cannot save himself. He's the King of Israel. Let him come down now from the cross and we will believe in17:05 him. In other words, they were deriding him. They were wagging their heads and they make fun of him. Look at this in verse 42. He trusts in God. He cannot save himself.17:18 Let God deliver him if he desires him for he said, I'm the son of God. In other words, it's exactly what was portrayed in Psalm 22 that is repeated in the Gospels,17:30 in the crucifixion site. What more? Scene number 3. In Psalm 22 and verse 18, it says, They divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.17:42 The Bible says in John 19 20 three-twenty 4, when the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took His garments and divided them into 4 parts, 1 part for each soldier and also his tunic. But the17:54 tunic was seamless, woven in 1 piece from top to bottom. So they said to 1 another, 'Let us not tear this tunic, but lest cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.' This was to fulfill18:06 the Scripture which says, they divided my garments among them, and from my clothing they cast lots. So the soldiers did these things. Did the soldiers know the scriptures? No. But did they18:17 fulfill the scriptures? Yes. Why? Because God had already declared this is the suffering that the Messiah would go through. I want you to ponder the sacrifice that Jesus18:29 had to go through. Hallelujah. 1 more scene, scene number 4. In Psalm 22 and verse 16, it says, For dogs encompass me, a company of evildoers encircle me. They18:41 have pierced my hands and feet. They have pierced my hands and feet. David, in his own experience, had never been pierced in his hands and feet. So he's18:53 prophetically speaking of the Messiah that 1 day would be hung on a cross, and they will pierce His hands and feet. In fact, how would you identify the resurrected19:05 Jesus as this is Jesus? You know how He identified Himself with the disciples? The Bible says in Luke chapter 24 and verse 38 up to 40, it says, And He said19:17 to them, why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts? See my hands and my feet. It is I, touch me and see for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see19:29 that I have. And then he goes, When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. Why would He show them His hands and feet? Because His hands had the19:40 nails pierced through it, and His feet also had nail pierced through it. Listen to me carefully. The scripture has been fulfilled again and again. Praise God.19:52 The Bible says, He was pierced for our transgressions. In Isaiah chapter 53 and verse 4 and verse 5, But He was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our20:03 iniquities. Upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and by His wounds, we are healed. Hallelujah. How many of you are grateful to the Lord for the piercing that He went through, for the20:15 agony that He went through, the anguish of soul He went through, for all the deep pain and suffering that Jesus went through, the feeling of abandonment, the silence of God in that situation, all these things he20:27 went through because the Bible says it was the desire of the Lord, the will of the Lord to crush him. Why? So that you and I can be saved. Jesus, He20:39 knew no sin. He did no sin. Yet the Bible says He became sin so that we who do not know righteousness can become the righteousness of God. Listen to me carefully.20:51 It was Jesus who was crushed for our iniquity. It was Jesus who carried all our sicknesses and our diseases. He was pierced for our transgressions. That's why when21:03 you read Psalm 22, you can't just think about the suffering that David went through. It points prophetically to the passion of Christ. It points to the suffering that Christ went through. And you got to21:15 ponder the sacrifice of Christ. Hallelujah. Isn't it like this, that when you read the scriptures, you always have to ask this question. Is the person who's writing21:26 this, is he speaking about himself or is he speaking of someone else? Listen to me, that prophetic element we need to understand, and sometimes you can't understand by yourself. That's why you need a21:38 preacher, someone to explain it to you. No, no, I remember the scenario in the book of Acts where Philip, the evangelist, the Lord, quickened him to go and meet with a eunuch,21:50 an Ethiopian eunuch. And the Bible says this Ethiopian eunuch was reading the scriptures. And the Bible says in acts chapter 8 and verse 30 onwards. So Philip ran to him and heard him reading22:02 Isaiah the prophet and asked, do you understand what you're reading? And the eunuch said, how can I, unless someone guides me? And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.22:14 Now the passage of the scripture that he was reading was this, like a sheep, he was led to the slaughter and like a lamb before its shearer, he is silent, he opens not his mouth. In22:26 his humiliation, justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation for his life is taken away from the earth? And the eunuch said to Philip, About22:37 whom I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else? And then Philip opened his mouth and beginning with the scripture, he told him the good22:49 news about Jesus. Hallelujah. Listen to me carefully. Go back to that question, the 1 before. It says, About whom I ask you, does the prophet say this,23:01 about himself or about someone else? Always remember this when you're reading the scripture, it is not about the author, it is about Jesus Christ. So when David is spending this23:13 lament, he's not just penning something that he went through, but prophetically, he's speaking about the passion of Christ and he's speaking about the 1 who would come to die for our salvation. Hallelujah.23:25 He himself was pierced for our transgression. The chastisement for our peace fell upon him and by his wounds, we are healed. The Bible says, hallelujah. Oh, glorious God.23:37 He was pierced. You know what this should produce within us? That you don't only just feel that God is God is doing much more than what you're seeing, but you got to know that23:48 God accomplished much more in Christ. Hallelujah. That he took your place so that you can take His place. Jesus was abandoned by God so that you24:00 will always be accepted by God. Jesus cried out and said, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me so that you can have the promise? I will never leave you nor forsake you every single day of your24:12 life, no matter what the situation is. Listen to me carefully. God in His sovereignty allowed His son to suffer and die the death that you and I24:24 deserved. And that's why today we come together to celebrate. What are we celebrating? We're celebrating the goodness of God, the grace of God. We celebrate the glory of Christ. We celebrate what Jesus has done. He24:36 took my place so I can take his place. He who knew no sin became sin so that I who do not know righteousness can become the righteousness of God. I accept what Jesus has done. I receive what Jesus paid24:48 for. Jesus took all my sin, gave me his right righteousness. He took all my curse and He gave me His blessing. He knew no sin became sin, so that I who do not know righteousness can become the righteousness of God.25:00 Oh, hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. That's why there is a purpose in Psalm 22. That's the third point. With that, I want to finish. What's 0.3?25:12 There is a purpose, and the purpose is you proclaim the salvation of Christ. That's the purpose. You proclaim the salvation of Christ. Look at how the25:24 shift happens. There is a cry for deliverance. David starts by saying, Lord, I need you to deliver me. Yet I feel like there's no help. You know, in verse 11, he says, there is25:36 none to help me. In verse 12, he says, many bulls encompass me, strong bulls surround me. And then in verse 13, he says, it's like a roaring lion is coming towards me. In25:48 verse 16, he says, for dogs encompass me. And then there is a shift in verse 19. What is the shift? The shift is Lord, you are my help. Come quickly to my aid. Verse 2026:00 says, My precious life, you have saved my precious life from the power of the dog. Verse 21, You have saved me from the mouth of the lion. You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen. In other words, there is26:11 a change. God has delivered me. Listen to me carefully. You're not waiting for your deliverance. God has already delivered you. You're not waiting for your26:23 rescue. God has already rescued you. You're not waiting to be saved. God has already finished the work on the cross. That's why there is a grand crescendo here. He says26:35 there is a shift that has already placed. He says in verse 21, You have rescued me. You have rescued me. Hallelujah. And then now he says in verse 22,26:47 Because I know that I have been delivered, I have been rescued, I have been saved, I will tell of your name to my brothers in the midst of the congregation. I will praise you. In other words,26:59 God, I'm no longer looking at my situation and feel abandoned and feel like no help is coming to me, but rather I know your faithfulness and I know that you're accomplishing your purpose and I see what you have done on27:10 the cross of Calvary and because of what you did with Jesus, I believe with all my heart that I'm delivered, I'm rescued, I'm saved, I'm set free. Hallelujah. And that's why he says, I would now27:22 testify. I will now proclaim what Christ has done. In other words, I will proclaim the salvation that God has given to me in Christ. Hallelujah. I love27:34 this, Psalm chapter 22 and verse 22, where he says, I will tell of your name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation, I will praise you. You know why?27:46 Because that verse is repeated in the New Testament. It is repeated in Hebrews chapter 2 and in verse 10 to 12, you read this, it says, For it was fitting that He, Jesus,27:58 for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. For He who28:09 sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have 1 source. That is why He is not ashamed to call them brothers saying, I will tell of your name to my brothers in the midst of28:21 the congregation, I'll sing your praise. This is a writer to the Hebrew. He wants to speak about Jesus and what Jesus has accomplished on our behalf. And because of what Jesus has done, He is today the source of our28:32 salvation. He's the source of our sanctification. And therefore we will proclaim of Him because He's now our elder brother. Hallelujah. I'm so grateful to the Lord for what God has done.28:44 That's why Psalmist David says, Because I know that God has delivered me, even though it is a song of suffering, I now change it into an anthem of victory.28:56 So from verse 27 all the way to verse 31, he prophetically declares what would take place. And I want you to think about this. Again, it's not speaking about David's experience29:09 because just because David is rescued doesn't mean that all the nations of the earth will turn, all the families of the earth will turn to the Lord. No, it didn't happen in history. But it's speaking prophetically about29:20 Christ's suffering and because of what Christ has done on the cross through his death, the Bible says all the families will turn to him. Look at this. All29:32 the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord and all the families of the nation shall worship before you. Verse 28, For kingship belongs to the Lord and He rules over the nations.29:44 Verse 29, All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship before Him shall bow all who go down to the dust, even the 1 who could not keep himself alive. Verse 30, Posterity shall serve29:56 him. It shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation. What is it that they will declare to the coming generation? They shall come and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn30:08 that He has done it. Hallelujah. Oh, praise God. What would you declare? Because of what Jesus has done today, nations can come to Him. Kings can30:20 come to Him. Families can turn to Him and they will worship God. Not only that, He says that they will proclaim to the coming generation this 1 truth that He30:31 has done it. You know what that verse is? That's John chapter 19 and verse 30, isn't it? John chapter 19 and verse 30, the Bible says, when30:43 Jesus received the sour wine, He said, it is finished. And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit. It is finished. That's very similar to how the life of30:55 Jesus ended on the cross. That's how it ended in the Psalm. It started with my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? And it ends by saying that he has done it.31:08 Indeed, he has done it. That's why no matter what you're going through today, you can stand firm in what Christ has done. See, 1 of the most important thing that I truly appreciate about31:20 the gospel is this. The Bible says you and I can never pay for our sin. We cannot pay by our good works. We cannot even lay down our life and sacrifice our life, and it will not be enough. Listen to31:32 me. But God sent his only son. That's why when John the Baptist saw Jesus for the first time, he declares in John chapter 1 in verse 29, Behold the lamb of God that takes31:44 away the sin of the world. It is Jesus who came as the lamb of God. He became the sacrificial lamb. He became the sacrifice on your behalf and my behalf. He took our sin, not only my31:55 sin and your sin, the whole world's sin was placed upon Jesus. And the Bible says, the iniquity of us all was placed upon Him. In Isaiah chapter 53 and verse32:07 6, All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way. And the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. All of our32:18 iniquity was laid upon Jesus. You know, today being the Good Friday, I want you to catch this picture that is because of what Jesus did on the32:29 cross that you and I can have the peace, the joy, the the love. We can become part of the family of God. We can have an eternal relationship with our heavenly father. We call our God our father32:41 because of what Jesus did. And the Bible says he has done it. That's why we keep proclaiming from generation to generation. That's the gospel of Jesus Christ. You don't have to, he has done now come back32:53 to him. So this call is coming to us even today that He has done it. Hallelujah. So in this situation, whatever you're going through right now, know this, that your pathway33:05 of suffering is a key to salvation. God has already ordained salvation for you, whether it is deliverance, it's rescue, whether it's saving, whatever you need in your33:17 physical life, God has already provided that in Christ. Maybe you may not see it yet, but I can guarantee you this, whatever he has33:29 portioned for you is far better than what you would ever dream of, what you would ever what you would ever need. Why? Because God has done far more than what you and I33:41 know in Christ. Hallelujah. Because of what Jesus has done on the cross. Today, you can have boldness in your situation. Whatever circumstances of life you're in, you can33:53 be bold enough to confess before God, I know my Savior lives. I know in whom I have believed. I know in whom I have entrusted my life, for He will keep it safe until that day.34:04 Hallelujah. Would you join me in prayer? Because the word of God is very clear. On the night when Jesus was betrayed, he took the bread and he said, This is my34:16 body that is wounded for you. This is my body that is broken for you. Now listen to me carefully. As we participate in this Lord's table, you and I need to34:28 recognize this truth. All our sin was placed upon him. You know, in first Peter chapter 2 and verse 24, the Bible says, He himself bore our sins in his34:39 body on the tree that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds, you have been healed. Listen, all your sin34:51 was placed upon His body. Not only your sin, He Himself bore all our griefs and our sorrows. He Himself carried all our infirmities upon Himself, the35:03 Bible says. And the Bible says that by his wounds, you and I have been healed. Now, what is it speaking about? It's speaking about Jesus dying on the cross on your35:14 behalf. He took your sin so that you can have His righteousness. He took your curse so that you can have His blessing. He took your sickness and your diseases so by His wounds, you can be healed and walk35:26 in the healing of the Lord so that you can fulfill the will of the Father in your life. Listen to me carefully. As we are going to go into the presence of God and participate in the Lord's stable, I want to offer this35:38 1 time. I want you to listen to me carefully. You cannot participate on this. It's not just a ritual. It's not just something that Christians do. It is a spiritual moment where we are transacting with35:50 God based on what Christ has done. If it becomes real to you, if it's going to have any effect on you, you have to believe in what Jesus has done. Otherwise, it's just a36:02 ritual. Listen to me, wherever you are seated right now, I want to give you an opportunity to receive Christ, to acknowledge Him as Jesus, as my savior. Jesus is my Lord. He36:13 died for me. He took my sin. He gave me His forgiveness. So today I'm forgiven. I'm cleansed by his blood. I want to be reconciled back to God. I want to become part of the family of God. If that is you,36:25 I want you to say this quick prayer with me. Come on, let every head bow, every eye closed all across this place. And if you're a person who says, I sincerely want to participate, I see that Jesus died36:37 for me. I see Jesus live for me. I see that Jesus died for my sin. I want to confess that I'm a sinner. I need Jesus' cleansing and forgiveness. Pray this prayer after me.36:50 Would you repeat it after me, church? Heavenly Father, I thank you for Jesus. I acknowledge that Jesus died for me. I37:01 acknowledge that He took all my sin. He took all my curse. He took all my sicknesses and diseases. And by His wounds, I'm healed.37:13 By His blood, I'm forgiven. I'm cleansed by his blood. Today, I acknowledge that Jesus is my Lord. Jesus is my37:25 savior. I receive forgiveness of sin and cleansing of all unrighteousness, And I accept Jesus as my Lord. And I confess that my life belongs to37:37 Him. In Jesus' name, amen and amen. If you had prayed that prayer from your heart sincerely, whether you're young or old, listen to me carefully, You have just become born again.37:49 Christ resides in you now. He forgives you of your sin. He cleanses you from all unrighteousness. Whatever situation you're in, He is very present help in time of your need.38:01 Not today, because it is the Good Friday service, we're going to participate in the Lord's table. So I want you to take the elements in your hand and I'm going to pray, and then we're going to participate together.38:16 We thank you, Father, for the body that was wounded for us, that was broken for us. And the word of God says that by his wounds, we are healed. So when we partake of this Lord's38:27 body, when we partake of this bread, we are that Jesus died for us. Jesus has set us free. He has forgiven us. He has cleansed us, and He has taken38:39 all our sicknesses and our diseases upon His body, and by His wounds, we are healed. So I pray for healing for every single person under the sound of my voice in the name of Jesus. Be healed. Be38:51 healed in your emotions, be healed in your physical body, from the top of your head to the soles of your feet, from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet, be healed in Jesus' name. Be healed.39:03 Today, I pray that you receive the divine health and divine strength and the long and abundant life in Christ Jesus. His life was cut short at a young age so that you can have the promise of a long life. And I pray39:14 for God's grace to come upon you even in this season. In the name of Jesus. And Father, I pray, even as we partake of the cup, we are reminded that the blood of JesusShow more
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