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In this video 0:00 Despised and Rejected: The Suffering Servant24:09 Staying at the Table of Betrayal43:45 Surrender in Gethsemane and Enduring Flogging1:10:21 Seven Last Words: Love That Saves
Despised and Rejected: The Suffering Servant 0:08 He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, familiar with pain, like 1 from whom people hide their faces.0:20 He was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely, he took up our pain and bore our suffering. Yet,0:32 we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our0:44 iniquities. The punishment that brought us peace was on him. And by his wounds, we are healed.0:56 This is the story of Jesus Christ, a man with more written about his life in encyclopedias than Julius Caesar. Scriptures1:08 record the details of of his suffering, the nails, the thorns, the lashes.1:20 Jesus was a man who knew pain, betrayal, rejection, abuse, abandonment.1:34 He experienced the fullness of human emotion and temptation. Yeah. He was fully God, but1:45 he understands humanity because he was fully human. God in the flesh, becoming like humanity to save humanity.1:58 Scripture tells us how he lived and suffered, but it also tells us why. Why. In a word, it tells us that he came and2:10 he died because he loved. He saw humans unable to save themselves from the darkness that was their natural inclination.
2:24 And so because we didn't know how to reach for him while we were still his enemies, he reached for us.
2:36 He came in love to die in our place, to redeem us from sin, and offer every person a new
2:48 life. Tonight, we remember the man, Jesus Christ. We remember the death that he suffered, and
3:00 we remember why. And so we invite you to come on a journey with us, a retelling of the story of the person of Jesus Christ. Tonight,
3:12 we'll reimagine Good Friday through his eyes, remembering that he was human, a man who understood what it meant to walk
3:24 in our shoes, but that he was also God, making him the only 1 capable of saving the humanity that he so knew and
3:37 loved. Good Friday was a night that changed everything. And when we understand it through his eyes,
3:48 it can
3:48 change us too.
3:51 So
3:51 tonight, we invite you to journey with us through the life changing event of Good Friday through the eyes of Jesus Christ.
6:56 Amen. Well, thank you guys for joining us on this Good Friday service. Looking forward to tonight. Amen. Tonight, we're here to remember and to honor
7:08 what Jesus gave us. The price that he paid so that we could have the freedom that we walk in today. So we're gonna start by worshiping Jesus together. So if you wanna worship with us, I wanna invite you to stand to
7:20 your feet, and let me pray for us and then we'll worship together. God, we thank you for Jesus. Lord, we come on this Good Friday today to
7:32 remember that 2000 years ago, Jesus walked this earth and He went to the cross because of your great love for us. So we come with thankful hearts here to honor you and
7:43 to say thank you in Jesus' name. And everybody said, Amen. Let's worship together.
10:31 Your cross
15:56 Because of you,
16:40 I won't forget
16:43 the price you paid. Though death was mine, you took my place.
17:47 You've searched my heart and all my ways. You've held me in your hands
20:45 I'm forever
Staying at the Table of Betrayal
24:09 Well good evening faith family. We're gonna take communion together tonight and what an honor to be invited to the table tonight. The table that reminds us
24:22 of the incredible salvation that we have as believers in Jesus. Amen. How many of you are glad to be among the many who have been forgiven tonight?
24:33 Amen. He said that the scripture says that the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. Not some sin, but all sin. Not only did he have the juice, but he
24:45 took the bread and he broke it. The bread represents the broken body of Jesus that is for our redemption. Not only can we live fully forgiven,
24:57 but we can live fully alive because of Jesus. Fully alive. Galatians 3 13 says, that Christ redeemed us from the curse
25:09 By being made a curse for us so that the blessing of God could come on our lives. Amen. That means that we don't have to live life broken,
25:22 in bondage and burdened, we don't have to stay there. We can live blessed, we can live free and we can live whole from the inside out because what Jesus has done for
25:34 us. It's such an honor to come to the table tonight, amen. The apostle Paul reminds us in first Corinthians, he said when we come to the table, he
25:46 said we're to do something, we're to examine our heart. We're to examine our inner person. It's just a time at the table where it's kinda like a checkpoint, where
25:58 we just stop and we say, okay God, is everything okay? Is there anything that I've done that's distanced me? Have I let life distract me from being
26:09 devoted to you? Is this is a time we can draw close to him again? Or maybe it's like all of us experience at times, we let things get on the inside of
26:21 us. Attitudes sometimes that aren't what he wants or maybe it's habits that keep us from fully following Jesus. Fully becoming who he knows
26:34 we can be. So the table is a good time to make adjustments tonight. It's a great time. And so I'm gonna just encourage us all to
26:45 make sure that we are allowing Jesus to love us like he wants to and lead us like He wants to, that we're enjoying the relationship, the friendship that we can have with our
26:57 Father and with our Savior. Tonight we're gonna, if you haven't gotten your little elements, would you pick those up tonight? And we're gonna sing a song together
27:10 and we're gonna just give each other space. We're gonna pause in the presence of God and we're gonna let Jesus talk to us and we're gonna talk to Jesus, we're gonna listen to the
27:22 Holy Spirit and we're gonna make anything that needs to be right, right tonight, amen? And so we just wanna encourage you, I'm not gonna lead you like we usually do instead
27:34 of doing that. I'm just gonna ask you when you feel ready, after you've examined your own heart, when you feel ready to take the bread, to take the juice that you do that on your own. Let's
27:45 make this, let's allow this to be a very sacred time between us and our savior tonight.
27:57 If you'd like during this time, you go ahead and be seated. We're gonna worship as we take communion together.
28:57 This is my daily bread. This is my daily bread.
29:11 Your spoken to me.
30:53 Day
30:56 to me.
32:20 Jesus.
32:53 My friend forever.
33:31 You're my friend
33:37 forever.
33:48 It started at a table, a commonplace, household commodity surrounded by fishermen, tax collectors, zealots, and businessmen.
34:01 A table full of Jesus' closest friends. They had experienced life together. Trips, weddings, parties, work, and ministry.
34:13 When Jesus looked around the table, he he saw spiritual brothers, friends, confidants, and ministry partners. He also saw men who are within a few days of abandoning
34:25 him on his hardest night. He shared bread with Judas who would betray him, drank wine with Peter who would deny him, and talked with 10 others who would
34:37 leave him in his hardest moment for the sake of self protection. Yet, knowing that these friends would soon forsake him, he stayed. He ate.
34:49 He served. He prayed. He blessed them. But why? Was it because he was fully God, immune to human suffering?
35:01 Did his knowledge of the future somehow keep him from fully experiencing the pain of the present? Scripture is clear. He submitted himself to the weakness
35:13 of being human, which means he felt physical and emotional pain as anybody would. So why did he stay? Why did he
35:24 share another meal and make another memory? Why did he break the bread saying, this is my body broken for you? And then take the wine and say, this
35:37 is my blood given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. He did it because for him, it wasn't just about a meal around
35:49 the table. He was giving the disciples a visual representation that as the bread was broken and the wine was poured out, so too would his body be broken
36:00 and his blood poured out for them. It will be done at a cost, yielding to abuse, mockery, shame, crucifixion,
36:12 and death. It will be done for a purpose To pay the price for the depth of their sin, so that they could be reconnected to God. It was done with a motive.
36:25 A love is so deep and so great that it goes to the furthest lengths to reach the furthest heart. And so, Jesus stayed. And as he stayed around the table
36:37 with 12 men who had abandoned him, he knew he'd soon be staying on a cross for humanity that would do the same. Jesus Christ stayed
36:49 because that's who he was. That's who he is. At the table, we see a God who stays, but scripture reveals more. Because as we
37:01 follow Jesus from the table to the garden, we also have a glimpse of a God who suffers. The Garden of Gethsemane. It's days before
37:13 Jesus will be crucified. It's dark and quiet. He's wrestling with his assignment to the point where sweating drops of blood, he invites 3 of
37:25 his closest friends to pray with him. And then he reaches for his father through prayer and in the anticipation of the excruciating agony that
37:37 is to come. Father, if there is any other way, take this suffering away. He asked again and
37:48 again, and soon realizes there is no other way. There is no other route. No other man who can do what he has been assigned to
38:00 do. And so, he surrenders. In the garden, we see that the God who stayed is also a God who surrendered
38:11 to
38:11 suffering. And for who? For the godly? For the upright? For those who know the law? For the betrayers? The runners? The
38:23 mockers? The skeptic? The cynic? The stray? Yes. For them, for us, for you.
38:37 Here comes footsteps in the garden. Judas comes to betray him and with a kiss and with a kiss, he's led the way to endure what he has now surrendered
38:48 to.
39:18 To see the king of heaven fall in anguish to his knees. The
39:30 light in hope of all the world now overwhelmed
40:04 You're not my will will but yours.
40:19 To know each friend will fall away. In heaven's voice, be still.
41:34 What's up him to
41:37 this wretched place
42:05 too great to carry. Oh, mingled
42:11 in this
42:12 poisoned cup, and yet he drank it all.
42:49 What took him to this ratchet place? What kept him on this road? His
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