April 12, 2025 • 26 mins
Today on Bold Steps Weekend, Pastor Mark will be focusing your eyes onto the Savior who has redeemed you. Mark will be going to the book of Luke chapter 23 to show you seven phrases that Jesus uttered from the cross. This message is part of our special Easter series where Mark is looking at the various aspects of Jesus' ministry on the earth.
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Today on Bold Steps Weekend with Mark Jobe, we're focusing
our eyes onto the Savior who has redeemed us.
S2 (00:07):
No one has ever existed that has made it to
God on their own. Good works. Their good works are
filthy rags before God. We're indebted beyond what we can pay.
We need someone to pay the price for us. Someone
better than us, purer than us, holier than us. There's
only one person. He's the Son of God.
S1 (00:39):
Welcome to Bold Steps Weekend with Mark Jobe, president of
Moody Bible Institute and also senior pastor of New Life
Community Church in Chicago. I'm Wayne Shepherd. On today's episode,
Mark is going to be turning to Luke chapter 23
to show us seven phrases words that Jesus uttered from
the cross. This message is part of our special Easter
series where we're looking at the various aspects of Jesus
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ministry on the earth. If you'd like to learn more
about Mark, share these messages with a friend or learn
more about the ministry, visit our website at Bold Steps.
All right, now let's get into the Word of God.
In a message, Mark is titled The Seven Phrases of Jesus.
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Jesus is speaking forgiveness upon the people that are crucifying
because Jesus is saying, if they only knew what they're doing,
they would have backed away and run from this scene.
If they only knew that 2000 years later, people would
be telling the story of these Roman guards that pierced
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the hands of the Son of God, the Savior of
the world. If they only knew that he was the Messiah.
If they only knew that they were sinning against God.
If they only knew that they were taking the life
of the one that came to give them life. They
would not do it, for they know not what they do.
So Jesus asked Ask forgiveness upon people that didn't even
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know they needed forgiveness. Here's what I've discovered about the
message of the gospel is that there are people all
over Chicagoland, and maybe some of you that are in
this auditorium today that you don't even know how desperately
you need forgiveness, that maybe you look at your life
and you don't know that like the soldiers that we
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crucified the Son of God with our living, that that
you're not even aware that the forgiveness that God is
offering to you, that you need it so desperately and
so badly sometimes the very thing that we need the most,
we're unaware that we need it. How many of you
know that? I love what it tells us in acts
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chapter three, verse 19, repent then, and turn to God
so that your sins may be wiped out, that times
of refreshing may come. In Matthew 26 verse 28 Jesus said,
this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured
out for many for the forgiveness of sins. So the
first thing I want you to understand is that the
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message of Jesus is about forgiveness. The second thing phrase
that he uttered from the cross was this I tell
you the truth, today you will be with me in Paradise.
There were two thieves, one at his right and one
at his left. One of them, while he hung on
the cross and was about to die, started hurling insults
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at Jesus. Hey, you say you're the Son of God.
Why don't you get yourself off the cross? And by
the way, get us off the cross as well. He
insulted Jesus, laughed at Jesus, mocked Jesus. They were all dying.
But he had this pride and this unbelief about him.
But the other thief on the other side, verse 40 said,
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don't you fear God? He said, since you are under
the same sentence. We are punished justly, for we are
getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done
nothing wrong. Then Jesus, then he said, Jesus, remember me
when you come into your kingdom. And I love these
words of Jesus. I want you to hear this. This
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is so important. So Jesus says to this man on
the cross that's lived a criminal lifestyle. He's lied, cheated, robbed.
He's been I'm sure he's robbed so many times. Finally
he gets caught. He's being sentenced to death. And Jesus
says to him, today you will be with me in Paradise.
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So hold on, Jesus. Do you know who this guy is?
Do you know how he's lived? He didn't have time
to prove himself to God. He didn't have time to
get baptized. He didn't have time to go to church.
He didn't have time to clean up his life. He
didn't have time to try to mend for the bad
things that he'd done. He was hours from his death,
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having lived a terrible life. Yet he did one important,
powerful thing. He believed the message of Jesus. And he
trusted him as his Savior. You see, if you believe
that our entrance and being right before God is all
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based on good works, that makes no sense to you.
You would say, well, he needs to go to hell
is what needs to happen to him. Because if you
don't understand the grace of God and the forgiveness of
God and the message of the gospel, you believe that
to be right with God, we have to really clean
up our act, and we have to try to be
really good before God accept this accepts us. But if
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you understand the gospel, you will realize that none of
us can be good enough for God. That's why Jesus
had to come. If there was another way, God would
have never Sacrificed his son. There is no other way
for cleansing and forgiveness to come to our lives except
through the cross of Jesus Christ. So that speaks to hope.
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The next phrase that he uttered speaks to compassion. In
John 1928, Jesus is dying on the cross. He looks
down and he sees his mother, Mary. It tells us
in verse 25, now there stood by the cross Jesus, Jesus,
his mother and his mother's sister, Mary, the wife of
Clopas and Mary Magdalene. And when Jesus on the cross
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saw his mother and the disciples standing by whom he loved,
which is referring to John, he said to his mother, woman,
behold your son. John was there. And he said to
his disciple, behold thy mother. And from that hour on,
the disciple took her into his own house. I love
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the fact that Jesus, and I know every mother in
here loves this fact, too. How about it, mothers? Don't
you love the fact that Jesus is dying? He's going
and he wants to make sure his mother is taken
care of. He looks down and he sees his mother
broken hearted, weeping. Can you imagine being a mother and
seeing your son die a horrible death of torture? Your
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your your son, who you've loved, who you've nurtured. Seen
him suffer and knowing who he was. And so Jesus
looked down. And so he said, he said to his
mother that he said to John, hey, John, take care
of her like she's your mother. And he said to Mary, Mary, uh,
he's going to be like your son. And from that
day on, John John the disciple took care of Mary
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like if it was his own mother. I love the
compassion that Jesus shows there. So you see forgiveness. You
see hope. You see compassion. The fourth phrase that he utters,
we see anguish. Look in Matthew chapter 27, verse 46.
It says that Jesus now in the sixth hour there
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was darkness all over the land until the ninth hour.
And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a
loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani! It means, My God,
my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And some of
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them that stood there when they heard it, they thought
he was calling for Elias because they didn't understand the
language he was speaking in. And straightway one came with
a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it
on a reed, and gave him something to drink. And
the rest said, let it be. Let us see whether
Elias will come to serve him. Eli, Eli lama sabachthani.
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My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? This
is one of the darkest phrases in all of Scripture.
And you say, well, pastor, I don't understand. I thought,
Is God the Father, God the Son, and God the
Holy Spirit? How could God love Jesus so much and
yet forsake him in his toughest hour? How could God
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the Father abandon Jesus at his most difficult moment in
his life? How could Jesus feel abandoned by the father
at the moment that he was suffering the cruelest torture
on earth? The Bible tells us that at that moment
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in history, Jesus came to pay a price. What Jesus
did on that cross, it had been predicted hundreds of
years before. In fact, it was in the heart of
the father since the beginning of the world. He knew
that one day his son would pay for the sins
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of all humanity. The very first sin that was ever
committed in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve.
Jesus took upon the cross the blame and guilt of it.
Every murder, every rape, every act of bigotry, every act
of hatred, every jealousy, every unforgiveness and resentment. Everything that's
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occurred in humanity among hundreds of thousands of people, millions
of people throughout in the entire world, every thought, every indecency,
everything that's been committed since the beginning of time until
the end of humanity. At that one moment in history,
Jesus took upon him the sins of all of humanity
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at that time because he was the only Spotless, sinless
sacrifice to take upon him the sins of humanity. And
he knew when he was in the Garden of Gethsemane,
it wasn't the physical death that he feared the most.
It was that moment in time where he would take
on the guilt of all of humanity upon himself, and
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feel the wrath of the father upon him. At that
moment he became sin for us so that we could
live clean without sin. Do you understand that? It's like
at that moment in time, someone that's innocent, that hasn't
committed a crime. The judge says to that person, you're
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going to jail for the entire life, and I'm going
to set the other person free. And so the judgment
of the judge falls upon the innocent person that takes
upon him the guilt and the pain and the punishment
that should go to another person. Eleele Lama Sabachthani.
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Now here's Mark job.
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The sixth phrase shows purpose in John chapter 19 verse 30.
When he had received the drink, Jesus looked to the heavens.
And this is probably the most important phrase that you'll
find out of these seven phrases on the cross. And
Jesus said, Our English Bibles translated, it is finished. But
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yet in the original language the word is tetelestai. Go ahead,
try to say it. I know you want to to
telestai when Jesus was on the cross, of course he
didn't speak English and say, it's finished. He said to Telestai,
now that's an interesting word because of the profound significance
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of this word, That word is translated in some versions
as paid in full or accomplished. It was a commercial
word that was used in transactions when someone had paid
the full amount. Then it was stamped. Paid in full.
How many of you had have finished a car payment
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that you worked on for a long time, and you
finally handed in the last car payment and it was stamped,
paid in full? Isn't that a great feeling? Some of
you are like, no pastor. Never felt that I got
20 more years to feel that. I actually wanted to
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illustrate it a little bit more significantly. And I thought
about this this morning. I ask if we had in
the office upstairs a stamp that said paid. It doesn't
say paid in full, but it says paid. Our office
uses it. When a bill is paid, they stamp it
and then sign it. When Jesus hung on that cross.
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After he had said he was thirsty. Right before he
said he was about to say, into your hands I
commend my spirit. He looked to the heavens and he said,
it is accomplished. It is paid in full. What was
paid in full? Oh, you need to hear this. I
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thought to myself. This is exactly what happened. This is
a stamp that says paid. What happened on that cross
that one day is that. Well, this is what happened.
That blood that was trickling down that cross, those hands
that had been pierced, that back, that had been bloody.
It was that blood, that red blood, the blood of Jesus.
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That blood was. Spilled on your behalf and my behalf.
The enemy had a well, the enemy had a whole
list against you. It's a list of every sin that
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you've ever committed, every thought that you've ever, ever had,
every indecency, both the thoughts of your mind and your
heart and your spirit. Every time you've hurt someone, every
time you've hated someone, every time there's been covetousness or
lying or deception and or immorality in your life. Well,
it would be a list a lot bigger than this, right?
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Some of you say, pastor, pull out a big dictionary.
It's kind of more like that. It's like a big,
big list. And some of you are really smug here.
And you're telling me you're thinking to myself, to yourself, pastor,
I'm not that bad. See, I believe one of the
greatest deceptions of humanity is people think they're good enough
to make it to God. Listen, there are more people
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that are wrong with God today because they think they're
good enough to be right with God. One of the
biggest lies that you have in your mind is you
think that you're not so bad after all. That probably
you're good enough. You're better than most of the people
you know were better than your neighbor. How many of
you know? When we compare ourselves, we always try to figure.
We always try to find the worst person to compare
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ourselves to. You see, if we could make it on
our own, then we could try to enter heaven on
our good works. Then I wouldn't be pointing you to
a cross today. I would be pointing you to morality today.
I would try to make you a better person. I
would try to correct you enough to be good enough
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for God. But here's what I know. There's none of
us that make it to heaven on our own. Good works.
Our good works before God, the Bible tells us, are
as filthy rags. There's all, all the good that we
can do doesn't even get us to the second rung
of the ladder to get to glory. There is not
a person in this auditorium. No one has ever existed
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that has made it to God on their own. Good works.
Their good works are filthy rags before God. We're indebted
beyond what we can pay. We need someone to pay
the price for us. Someone better than us, purer than us,
holier than us. There's only one person. He's the Son
of God. You see, this is the heart of the gospel.
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There are tons of people that are lost, religious, good
people that are going to a godless eternity because they
think somehow, if they're just better than they were last year,
that they'll be right with God. The Bible is clear.
None of us, none of us can make it without
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a Savior. The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came
to offer forgiveness because all of us need a Savior.
None of us can make it on our own. You see,
the moment that you don't understand, you need a savior.
is the moment that you condemn yourselves by trying to
improve your life to be accepted before God. When Jesus
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died on the cross, this is the list of your sins.
Sins that go longer and longer. Sins that you could
never pay. When Jesus died on the cross, this is
what he said. He said, father, it's been. Paid in
full by the blood of Jesus. And one last thing
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he said, and I'll close with this. The final words
that he said is, father, into your hands I commit
my spirit that talks about the power of God. Jesus
was not murdered by the Romans. Jesus went to the
slaughter out of his own volition. Jesus was not a martyr.
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Jesus was a lamb that sacrificed himself. Jesus could have
stopped it at any time. The Bible says he could
have called a legion of angels to come and stop him,
but he went to the cross even though he agonized
about it. He went to the cross because he knew
that you and I needed a Savior. We needed someone
to pay it in full because you and I could never, never, never, never, never, never,
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never pay the debt that we owed before. God. So
there you have it. Easter is only a couple of
days away. Resurrection. And I would hate for you to
go into this Easter season and miss the whole point
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of Resurrection Sunday. You know, that word that Jesus cried
out to telestai means paid in full, and I know
that there are some listeners that you are new to Christianity,
or maybe you've been hanging around a church for a
long time, but you've never quite fully grasped what we
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call the gospel. And the gospel is the good news
that it is paid in full. And if you have
been living your life trying to earn your salvation through
good works, if you have been trying to be religious
enough to be accepted before God, if you have, uh,
thought to yourself, I need to get on a religious
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self-improvement program so maybe I could squeak my way into
heaven or be right with God. But you feel like
you're failing at this. I want to say we have
never been able to be right with God through our
good works. It's impossible. That's why Jesus paid a debt
that you and I couldn't pay. He said paid in
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full because you could work your entire life trying to
pay off a debt of your own sin. It's impossible. Today,
the message is clear. God gives you a gift that
he's paid in full your forgiveness. And so if you've
never done this, I want to invite you before Resurrection
Sunday to say, for the first time in your life, Lord,
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I'm willing to receive that gift that I've been working
for my entire life. We have to believe the message.
We have to repent and choose to follow him. So
if God has been tugging on your heart, if you
sense that he's been leading you, I don't have to
convince you. You know he's been drawing you. I'd like
for you to pause and pray this prayer of surrender
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with me. Dear God, I know that I'm a sinner.
I fall short in my sin. And today I need
a Savior. So for the first time in my life,
I'm asking you, Lord, to wash me. Cleanse me. I
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receive that gift of my sins being paid in full.
I turn away from the way that I've been living
and I choose to follow you. Jesus. Come and change
me from the inside out. I surrender my life to
you in Jesus name. Amen. It's not the magic of
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faith that transforms us from the inside out. And so
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Today on Bold Steps Weekend with Mark Jobe, we're focusing
our eyes onto the Savior who has redeemed us.
S2 (00:07):
No one has ever existed that has made it to
God on their own. Good works. Their good works are
filthy rags before God. We're indebted beyond what we can pay.
We need someone to pay the price for us. Someone
better than us, purer than us, holier than us. There's
only one person. He's the Son of God.
S1 (00:39):
Welcome to Bold Steps Weekend with Mark Jobe, president of
Moody Bible Institute and also senior pastor of New Life
Community Church in Chicago. I'm Wayne Shepherd. On today's episode,
Mark is going to be turning to Luke chapter 23
to show us seven phrases words that Jesus uttered from
the cross. This message is part of our special Easter
series where we're looking at the various aspects of Jesus
(01:02):
ministry on the earth. If you'd like to learn more
about Mark, share these messages with a friend or learn
more about the ministry, visit our website at Bold Steps.
All right, now let's get into the Word of God.
In a message, Mark is titled The Seven Phrases of Jesus.
S2 (01:19):
Jesus is speaking forgiveness upon the people that are crucifying
because Jesus is saying, if they only knew what they're doing,
they would have backed away and run from this scene.
If they only knew that 2000 years later, people would
be telling the story of these Roman guards that pierced
(01:41):
the hands of the Son of God, the Savior of
the world. If they only knew that he was the Messiah.
If they only knew that they were sinning against God.
If they only knew that they were taking the life
of the one that came to give them life. They
would not do it, for they know not what they do.
So Jesus asked Ask forgiveness upon people that didn't even
(02:03):
know they needed forgiveness. Here's what I've discovered about the
message of the gospel is that there are people all
over Chicagoland, and maybe some of you that are in
this auditorium today that you don't even know how desperately
you need forgiveness, that maybe you look at your life
and you don't know that like the soldiers that we
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crucified the Son of God with our living, that that
you're not even aware that the forgiveness that God is
offering to you, that you need it so desperately and
so badly sometimes the very thing that we need the most,
we're unaware that we need it. How many of you
know that? I love what it tells us in acts
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chapter three, verse 19, repent then, and turn to God
so that your sins may be wiped out, that times
of refreshing may come. In Matthew 26 verse 28 Jesus said,
this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured
out for many for the forgiveness of sins. So the
first thing I want you to understand is that the
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message of Jesus is about forgiveness. The second thing phrase
that he uttered from the cross was this I tell
you the truth, today you will be with me in Paradise.
There were two thieves, one at his right and one
at his left. One of them, while he hung on
the cross and was about to die, started hurling insults
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at Jesus. Hey, you say you're the Son of God.
Why don't you get yourself off the cross? And by
the way, get us off the cross as well. He
insulted Jesus, laughed at Jesus, mocked Jesus. They were all dying.
But he had this pride and this unbelief about him.
But the other thief on the other side, verse 40 said,
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don't you fear God? He said, since you are under
the same sentence. We are punished justly, for we are
getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done
nothing wrong. Then Jesus, then he said, Jesus, remember me
when you come into your kingdom. And I love these
words of Jesus. I want you to hear this. This
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is so important. So Jesus says to this man on
the cross that's lived a criminal lifestyle. He's lied, cheated, robbed.
He's been I'm sure he's robbed so many times. Finally
he gets caught. He's being sentenced to death. And Jesus
says to him, today you will be with me in Paradise.
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So hold on, Jesus. Do you know who this guy is?
Do you know how he's lived? He didn't have time
to prove himself to God. He didn't have time to
get baptized. He didn't have time to go to church.
He didn't have time to clean up his life. He
didn't have time to try to mend for the bad
things that he'd done. He was hours from his death,
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having lived a terrible life. Yet he did one important,
powerful thing. He believed the message of Jesus. And he
trusted him as his Savior. You see, if you believe
that our entrance and being right before God is all
(05:26):
based on good works, that makes no sense to you.
You would say, well, he needs to go to hell
is what needs to happen to him. Because if you
don't understand the grace of God and the forgiveness of
God and the message of the gospel, you believe that
to be right with God, we have to really clean
up our act, and we have to try to be
really good before God accept this accepts us. But if
(05:48):
you understand the gospel, you will realize that none of
us can be good enough for God. That's why Jesus
had to come. If there was another way, God would
have never Sacrificed his son. There is no other way
for cleansing and forgiveness to come to our lives except
through the cross of Jesus Christ. So that speaks to hope.
(06:19):
The next phrase that he uttered speaks to compassion. In
John 1928, Jesus is dying on the cross. He looks
down and he sees his mother, Mary. It tells us
in verse 25, now there stood by the cross Jesus, Jesus,
his mother and his mother's sister, Mary, the wife of
Clopas and Mary Magdalene. And when Jesus on the cross
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saw his mother and the disciples standing by whom he loved,
which is referring to John, he said to his mother, woman,
behold your son. John was there. And he said to
his disciple, behold thy mother. And from that hour on,
the disciple took her into his own house. I love
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the fact that Jesus, and I know every mother in
here loves this fact, too. How about it, mothers? Don't
you love the fact that Jesus is dying? He's going
and he wants to make sure his mother is taken
care of. He looks down and he sees his mother
broken hearted, weeping. Can you imagine being a mother and
seeing your son die a horrible death of torture? Your
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your your son, who you've loved, who you've nurtured. Seen
him suffer and knowing who he was. And so Jesus
looked down. And so he said, he said to his
mother that he said to John, hey, John, take care
of her like she's your mother. And he said to Mary, Mary, uh,
he's going to be like your son. And from that
day on, John John the disciple took care of Mary
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like if it was his own mother. I love the
compassion that Jesus shows there. So you see forgiveness. You
see hope. You see compassion. The fourth phrase that he utters,
we see anguish. Look in Matthew chapter 27, verse 46.
It says that Jesus now in the sixth hour there
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was darkness all over the land until the ninth hour.
And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a
loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani! It means, My God,
my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And some of
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them that stood there when they heard it, they thought
he was calling for Elias because they didn't understand the
language he was speaking in. And straightway one came with
a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it
on a reed, and gave him something to drink. And
the rest said, let it be. Let us see whether
Elias will come to serve him. Eli, Eli lama sabachthani.
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My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? This
is one of the darkest phrases in all of Scripture.
And you say, well, pastor, I don't understand. I thought,
Is God the Father, God the Son, and God the
Holy Spirit? How could God love Jesus so much and
yet forsake him in his toughest hour? How could God
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the Father abandon Jesus at his most difficult moment in
his life? How could Jesus feel abandoned by the father
at the moment that he was suffering the cruelest torture
on earth? The Bible tells us that at that moment
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in history, Jesus came to pay a price. What Jesus
did on that cross, it had been predicted hundreds of
years before. In fact, it was in the heart of
the father since the beginning of the world. He knew
that one day his son would pay for the sins
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of all humanity. The very first sin that was ever
committed in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve.
Jesus took upon the cross the blame and guilt of it.
Every murder, every rape, every act of bigotry, every act
of hatred, every jealousy, every unforgiveness and resentment. Everything that's
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occurred in humanity among hundreds of thousands of people, millions
of people throughout in the entire world, every thought, every indecency,
everything that's been committed since the beginning of time until
the end of humanity. At that one moment in history,
Jesus took upon him the sins of all of humanity
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at that time because he was the only Spotless, sinless
sacrifice to take upon him the sins of humanity. And
he knew when he was in the Garden of Gethsemane,
it wasn't the physical death that he feared the most.
It was that moment in time where he would take
on the guilt of all of humanity upon himself, and
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feel the wrath of the father upon him. At that
moment he became sin for us so that we could
live clean without sin. Do you understand that? It's like
at that moment in time, someone that's innocent, that hasn't
committed a crime. The judge says to that person, you're
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going to jail for the entire life, and I'm going
to set the other person free. And so the judgment
of the judge falls upon the innocent person that takes
upon him the guilt and the pain and the punishment
that should go to another person. Eleele Lama Sabachthani.
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The sixth phrase shows purpose in John chapter 19 verse 30.
When he had received the drink, Jesus looked to the heavens.
And this is probably the most important phrase that you'll
find out of these seven phrases on the cross. And
Jesus said, Our English Bibles translated, it is finished. But
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yet in the original language the word is tetelestai. Go ahead,
try to say it. I know you want to to
telestai when Jesus was on the cross, of course he
didn't speak English and say, it's finished. He said to Telestai,
now that's an interesting word because of the profound significance
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of this word, That word is translated in some versions
as paid in full or accomplished. It was a commercial
word that was used in transactions when someone had paid
the full amount. Then it was stamped. Paid in full.
How many of you had have finished a car payment
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that you worked on for a long time, and you
finally handed in the last car payment and it was stamped,
paid in full? Isn't that a great feeling? Some of
you are like, no pastor. Never felt that I got
20 more years to feel that. I actually wanted to
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illustrate it a little bit more significantly. And I thought
about this this morning. I ask if we had in
the office upstairs a stamp that said paid. It doesn't
say paid in full, but it says paid. Our office
uses it. When a bill is paid, they stamp it
and then sign it. When Jesus hung on that cross.
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After he had said he was thirsty. Right before he
said he was about to say, into your hands I
commend my spirit. He looked to the heavens and he said,
it is accomplished. It is paid in full. What was
paid in full? Oh, you need to hear this. I
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thought to myself. This is exactly what happened. This is
a stamp that says paid. What happened on that cross
that one day is that. Well, this is what happened.
That blood that was trickling down that cross, those hands
that had been pierced, that back, that had been bloody.
It was that blood, that red blood, the blood of Jesus.
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That blood was. Spilled on your behalf and my behalf.
The enemy had a well, the enemy had a whole
list against you. It's a list of every sin that
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you've ever committed, every thought that you've ever, ever had,
every indecency, both the thoughts of your mind and your
heart and your spirit. Every time you've hurt someone, every
time you've hated someone, every time there's been covetousness or
lying or deception and or immorality in your life. Well,
it would be a list a lot bigger than this, right?
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Some of you say, pastor, pull out a big dictionary.
It's kind of more like that. It's like a big,
big list. And some of you are really smug here.
And you're telling me you're thinking to myself, to yourself, pastor,
I'm not that bad. See, I believe one of the
greatest deceptions of humanity is people think they're good enough
to make it to God. Listen, there are more people
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that are wrong with God today because they think they're
good enough to be right with God. One of the
biggest lies that you have in your mind is you
think that you're not so bad after all. That probably
you're good enough. You're better than most of the people
you know were better than your neighbor. How many of
you know? When we compare ourselves, we always try to figure.
We always try to find the worst person to compare
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ourselves to. You see, if we could make it on
our own, then we could try to enter heaven on
our good works. Then I wouldn't be pointing you to
a cross today. I would be pointing you to morality today.
I would try to make you a better person. I
would try to correct you enough to be good enough
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for God. But here's what I know. There's none of
us that make it to heaven on our own. Good works.
Our good works before God, the Bible tells us, are
as filthy rags. There's all, all the good that we
can do doesn't even get us to the second rung
of the ladder to get to glory. There is not
a person in this auditorium. No one has ever existed
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that has made it to God on their own. Good works.
Their good works are filthy rags before God. We're indebted
beyond what we can pay. We need someone to pay
the price for us. Someone better than us, purer than us,
holier than us. There's only one person. He's the Son
of God. You see, this is the heart of the gospel.
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There are tons of people that are lost, religious, good
people that are going to a godless eternity because they
think somehow, if they're just better than they were last year,
that they'll be right with God. The Bible is clear.
None of us, none of us can make it without
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a Savior. The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came
to offer forgiveness because all of us need a Savior.
None of us can make it on our own. You see,
the moment that you don't understand, you need a savior.
is the moment that you condemn yourselves by trying to
improve your life to be accepted before God. When Jesus
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died on the cross, this is the list of your sins.
Sins that go longer and longer. Sins that you could
never pay. When Jesus died on the cross, this is
what he said. He said, father, it's been. Paid in
full by the blood of Jesus. And one last thing
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he said, and I'll close with this. The final words
that he said is, father, into your hands I commit
my spirit that talks about the power of God. Jesus
was not murdered by the Romans. Jesus went to the
slaughter out of his own volition. Jesus was not a martyr.
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Jesus was a lamb that sacrificed himself. Jesus could have
stopped it at any time. The Bible says he could
have called a legion of angels to come and stop him,
but he went to the cross even though he agonized
about it. He went to the cross because he knew
that you and I needed a Savior. We needed someone
to pay it in full because you and I could never, never, never, never, never, never,
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never pay the debt that we owed before. God. So
there you have it. Easter is only a couple of
days away. Resurrection. And I would hate for you to
go into this Easter season and miss the whole point
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of Resurrection Sunday. You know, that word that Jesus cried
out to telestai means paid in full, and I know
that there are some listeners that you are new to Christianity,
or maybe you've been hanging around a church for a
long time, but you've never quite fully grasped what we
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call the gospel. And the gospel is the good news
that it is paid in full. And if you have
been living your life trying to earn your salvation through
good works, if you have been trying to be religious
enough to be accepted before God, if you have, uh,
thought to yourself, I need to get on a religious
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self-improvement program so maybe I could squeak my way into
heaven or be right with God. But you feel like
you're failing at this. I want to say we have
never been able to be right with God through our
good works. It's impossible. That's why Jesus paid a debt
that you and I couldn't pay. He said paid in
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full because you could work your entire life trying to
pay off a debt of your own sin. It's impossible. Today,
the message is clear. God gives you a gift that
he's paid in full your forgiveness. And so if you've
never done this, I want to invite you before Resurrection
Sunday to say, for the first time in your life, Lord,
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I'm willing to receive that gift that I've been working
for my entire life. We have to believe the message.
We have to repent and choose to follow him. So
if God has been tugging on your heart, if you
sense that he's been leading you, I don't have to
convince you. You know he's been drawing you. I'd like
for you to pause and pray this prayer of surrender
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with me. Dear God, I know that I'm a sinner.
I fall short in my sin. And today I need
a Savior. So for the first time in my life,
I'm asking you, Lord, to wash me. Cleanse me. I
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receive that gift of my sins being paid in full.
I turn away from the way that I've been living
and I choose to follow you. Jesus. Come and change
me from the inside out. I surrender my life to
you in Jesus name. Amen. It's not the magic of
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a prayer. It's the choice of a heart mixed with
faith that transforms us from the inside out. And so
I want to encourage you, if you have prayed that prayer,
if you've made that decision, I want to challenge you
to go to our website. We have a button that says,
my next step, and I'd like for you to go
there and get some more information. We celebrate with you
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the beginning of your journey in God.
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Yes, and please tell us of your decision when you
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I want to remind you of our most encouraging resources
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a special Easter message. We'll be looking at the resurrection
and the importance of Jesus work on the cross. It's
a message for anyone who's perhaps a cynic, maybe a
sufferer or a seeker. Don't miss it when you listen.
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