WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.379 Folks, why don't you come with me to those verses that we read at the start together in Isaiah 53. 00:00:08.700 --> 00:00:19.480 And on this Good Friday, let us thrill our souls with the wonder of the central message of the gospel. 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:30.560 As we swim deep into the very heart of it, as we get it in verses 4 to 6 of Isaiah 53. 00:00:31.940 --> 00:00:35.719 And so as you're turning there, let me tell you something about my dad. 00:00:37.700 --> 00:00:45.299 So my dad's in his mid-60s now, but something happened to him when he was much younger. 00:00:45.299 --> 00:00:49.759 And I think he'll agree with me saying when he was much fitter. 00:00:50.899 --> 00:00:58.559 You see, my dad has got a big scar on the inside of his right knee. 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:05.000 And I remember asking him as a young boy, saying, Dad, how did you get it? 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:09.879 And he was 37 when he did it, which is the same age I am. 00:01:09.879 --> 00:01:17.219 And what happened is that he tore his anterior cruciate ligament playing football, as I understand it. 00:01:17.739 --> 00:01:26.759 Now, you do that now as a footballer or any kind of sports person, and you're pretty sure that you're going to make a good recovery within, I don't know, a year, 18 months, something like that. 00:01:26.819 --> 00:01:28.340 So your career's not finished. 00:01:28.859 --> 00:01:34.500 But he's doing this back in 1990, I think it was, right? 00:01:34.500 --> 00:01:41.159 Despite a good knee operation then, your knee is never likely to be the same again. 00:01:42.299 --> 00:01:45.760 So to this day, my dad still has a passionate love for the beautiful game. 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:51.719 But he's hardly kicked a ball since he did that injury back when he was 37. 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:56.939 And that's the truth about wounds, isn't it? 00:01:56.939 --> 00:02:02.780 They tell stories to us about how we picked them up. 00:02:03.379 --> 00:02:06.579 And they come in all sorts of different forms. 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:08.639 For my dad, it's physical. 00:02:10.340 --> 00:02:13.599 But we know, don't we, that wounds can also be emotional. 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:16.579 Or they can be mental. 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:18.560 Or maybe even they can be psychological. 00:02:20.180 --> 00:02:20.439 Right? 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:25.599 Those memories that keep ticking back, playing in our minds. 00:02:25.740 --> 00:02:30.240 Those regrets that are the proverbial monkey on the back. 00:02:30.379 --> 00:02:34.939 Those broken relationships that have never quite healed. 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:40.680 Those bitter words that you said that you just cannot take back. 00:02:40.780 --> 00:02:43.520 Just like a toothpaste from a tube, isn't it? 00:02:43.539 --> 00:02:44.159 You squirt it. 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:46.979 You cannot get that toothpaste back in the tub. 00:02:46.979 --> 00:02:53.719 Mistakes that even the slightest flashback of in your mind cause you to run a million miles and hide. 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:55.319 Here's the truth of it tonight. 00:02:55.780 --> 00:02:56.939 We've all got wounds. 00:02:58.060 --> 00:02:59.039 All got wounds. 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:03.899 And for better or for worse, the thing about all of our wounds 00:03:03.899 --> 00:03:12.479 is that they can both define our present and direct our future. 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:17.819 And as you think about the wounds in your own life right now, 00:03:18.699 --> 00:03:25.060 here's what we're going to do for the next 20 so minutes tonight. 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:27.699 We're going to think about Jesus' wounds. 00:03:27.699 --> 00:03:39.679 And the invitation that he makes to us to come and to allow his wounds to define who we are. 00:03:40.500 --> 00:03:43.639 You see, his wounds are life-giving. 00:03:43.739 --> 00:03:46.859 And this is what we want to focus on and celebrate tonight. 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:50.560 And allow his wounds to define who we are. 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:59.979 Now, in this section of Isaiah, that begins at chapter 40 and runs right through to the end of chapter 55, 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:05.620 here is the great tension that's in the text all the way through this, okay? 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:07.000 Feel this tension. 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:11.539 This is a tug of war that's going on in this section of Isaiah, right? 00:04:11.699 --> 00:04:13.719 On the one hand, here's the one team. 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:18.100 On the one hand, God has been making some seriously big promises to his people 00:04:18.100 --> 00:04:24.920 about what he will do for them when they soon find themselves in exile, 00:04:25.259 --> 00:04:28.879 away from the homeland, in Babylon, and they're thinking it's game over, 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:30.620 thinking that God's finished with them. 00:04:31.579 --> 00:04:34.680 And he's been making big promises of how, 00:04:35.060 --> 00:04:41.100 and just taking these promises of how he will pardon their iniquity, all right? 00:04:41.100 --> 00:04:46.080 Iniquity, sin, transgression, where we've overstepped the mark against a holy God. 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:48.420 How God is going to make that right? 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:51.540 How God is going to rescue them? 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:56.520 How God is going to forgive them and remember their sins no more? 00:04:57.900 --> 00:05:02.360 Promises, and get this, that this God is so lovingly committed to 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:10.000 that he can describe his people as being engraved, inscribed on the palm of his hands. 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:10.680 Now, get that. 00:05:11.640 --> 00:05:16.600 That is how lovingly and faithfully committed it is to his covenant promises and to his people. 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:20.220 They are like names inscribed in the palm of his hands. 00:05:20.300 --> 00:05:24.160 Now, I remember my kids going through that label-making phase. 00:05:25.960 --> 00:05:26.360 Right? 00:05:26.420 --> 00:05:29.000 They just wanted their name on everything, didn't you guys? 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:31.460 Lunchboxes, cardigans, bottles. 00:05:31.900 --> 00:05:35.820 Now, at this stage of my life, I understand why people have label-making machines. 00:05:35.819 --> 00:05:39.779 Because instinctively, that's what we do as humans, don't we? 00:05:39.779 --> 00:05:42.379 With our human hearts, we just want to claim territory. 00:05:42.579 --> 00:05:44.719 We want to say things are ours. 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:46.339 Claim things for ourselves. 00:05:46.339 --> 00:05:53.219 But so often it's the case that it's selfishness and greed in our hearts that motivates us to claim things. 00:05:54.279 --> 00:05:56.759 But you've got to see with this God, it's the other way around. 00:05:56.759 --> 00:06:03.219 It's because of who he is that the gospel is even possible, yet alone true. 00:06:03.599 --> 00:06:06.759 He is a loving community of Father, Son, and Spirit. 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:08.699 He is love. 00:06:08.699 --> 00:06:11.959 And it's because of the overflow of that love. 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:14.920 That's the thing that drives God's heart. 00:06:15.479 --> 00:06:19.339 And that's the thing that wants him to make his people his own. 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:25.860 And all these promises, God is saying that his people will not bring them about by themselves. 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:27.740 Okay? 00:06:28.099 --> 00:06:32.919 It's just wonderful, the promises that God is making to his people in this section of Isaiah. 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:43.400 But if you've got promises pulling on the one rope, okay, pulling back at the other rope is the fact that God has been putting his finger on some seriously big problems in the lives of his people. 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:46.400 Their blatant sin. 00:06:47.700 --> 00:06:51.040 Their just refusal to acknowledge him and his ways. 00:06:51.200 --> 00:06:52.500 Their hypocrisy. 00:06:53.660 --> 00:06:57.280 And the injustice that's rife amongst their community. 00:06:57.420 --> 00:07:00.740 And all of that's coming together and making the vilest of cocktails. 00:07:00.740 --> 00:07:07.040 And that has rightly brought about the righteous anger of a holy God. 00:07:07.139 --> 00:07:08.379 And so that is the tension. 00:07:08.519 --> 00:07:09.120 Do you feel it? 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:15.060 Promises on the one hand and problems on the other hand. 00:07:16.740 --> 00:07:18.199 And so here's what we need to see. 00:07:19.699 --> 00:07:23.439 Is that God is not sitting in heaven thinking that it's a trade-off. 00:07:25.379 --> 00:07:25.780 Right? 00:07:25.819 --> 00:07:28.800 The God who is outside time is not there thinking it's one or the other. 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:37.840 Because his very character will not and indeed cannot compromise on either of those things. 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:48.879 And yet flowing from that, God's eternal intention is to be faithful to both. 00:07:48.879 --> 00:08:02.680 The problem, friends, is not simply that you and I could not atone for, make up for, our huge debt of sin that we've incurred in the eyes of a holy God. 00:08:03.459 --> 00:08:03.759 Right? 00:08:04.659 --> 00:08:06.480 That's not just the problem. 00:08:06.659 --> 00:08:14.000 The problem is also that even if we could do that, our hearts are so wicked and twisted that we wouldn't even be interested in doing it. 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:22.879 Even if we could, our hearts are so dull that we wouldn't even be interested in that. 00:08:24.300 --> 00:08:27.000 See, the problem is our desires. 00:08:27.699 --> 00:08:29.199 Our hearts is the problem. 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:33.740 Our only hope is in his. 00:08:33.740 --> 00:08:44.180 The triune God who says, and get this, that he will make salvation spring up from the ground. 00:08:44.899 --> 00:08:49.399 In other words, this is going to be all of him and nothing of us. 00:08:50.419 --> 00:08:54.279 All because of his grace and his love and nothing because of our merit. 00:08:54.680 --> 00:08:56.560 All because of who he is. 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:57.200 It's all about him. 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:02.220 And God's answer to that conundrum comes in the form of his servant. 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:07.200 How is God going to be faithful to who he is? 00:09:07.540 --> 00:09:12.180 And we get a wonderful glimpse into his heart and his work in chapters 52 and 53. 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:15.100 Clock in now if you haven't got that passage open in front of you. 00:09:17.460 --> 00:09:20.780 But the heart of that passage comes in verses 4 to 6. 00:09:21.100 --> 00:09:21.259 Right? 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:22.140 It's like a sandwich. 00:09:22.400 --> 00:09:23.400 Here's the meat in the middle. 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:26.879 And there's a rhythm to it. 00:09:28.419 --> 00:09:30.819 And I take it simply there's a rhythm to it. 00:09:31.259 --> 00:09:32.879 To make it stick in our minds. 00:09:33.059 --> 00:09:36.000 It's why we love nursery rhymes, isn't it? 00:09:37.379 --> 00:09:42.539 It's why we can, everyone in this room, we can still hum along and know the words to London Bridge Falling Down. 00:09:42.620 --> 00:09:43.500 You ever thought that's funny? 00:09:44.019 --> 00:09:44.720 Ever thought that's weird? 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:45.679 Something that happened when? 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:49.220 In the 17th century we still know what happened. 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:50.079 Why is that? 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:51.319 Why is that? 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:54.320 Why do we love nursery rhymes? 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:55.740 Why do they stick in our minds? 00:09:56.060 --> 00:09:57.740 Because they rhyme. 00:09:59.000 --> 00:09:59.200 Yeah? 00:09:59.960 --> 00:10:04.180 And they make melody that we click with in our hearts and in our minds. 00:10:04.300 --> 00:10:07.720 And I take it the exact same logic is happening here. 00:10:08.100 --> 00:10:10.460 Because there's a rhythm to verses 4 to 6. 00:10:10.520 --> 00:10:11.200 You want to hear the rhythm? 00:10:11.620 --> 00:10:12.300 Here's the rhythm. 00:10:12.620 --> 00:10:14.460 Really simple one goes like this. 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:16.360 It goes, 00:10:16.500 --> 00:10:17.440 Him for us. 00:10:19.060 --> 00:10:20.240 Him for us. 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.860 Him for us. 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:25.519 There's seven couplets in this little section. 00:10:25.720 --> 00:10:26.460 Him for us. 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:27.500 Him for us. 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:29.980 Now just glance with me and you'll see them. 00:10:30.100 --> 00:10:30.600 Verse 4. 00:10:31.019 --> 00:10:34.519 Surely He took our infirmities. 00:10:35.259 --> 00:10:35.399 Right? 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.580 He carried our sorrows. 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:39.340 Verse 5. 00:10:39.700 --> 00:10:42.600 He was pierced for our transgressions. 00:10:42.860 --> 00:10:45.519 He was crushed for our iniquities. 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:47.740 The punishment that brought us peace. 00:10:47.860 --> 00:10:50.000 And clock that for where we're going to land with this later. 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:53.100 The punishment that brought us peace was on Him. 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:55.159 By His wounds we are healed. 00:10:55.699 --> 00:10:56.399 Verse 6. 00:10:56.699 --> 00:11:00.059 The Lord laid on Him the iniquity of us all. 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:00.779 Do you feel the rhythm? 00:11:00.860 --> 00:11:01.519 Do you feel the beat? 00:11:01.980 --> 00:11:02.860 Him for us. 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:03.980 Him for us. 00:11:04.539 --> 00:11:05.679 Seven times. 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:10.379 And the truth that's meant to be lodging with the reader. 00:11:11.959 --> 00:11:16.279 Is that this suffering servant will be the great substitute. 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:19.779 He'll be the great stand-in. 00:11:20.779 --> 00:11:23.819 That's why I love my friends who work with Christians in sport. 00:11:23.939 --> 00:11:24.779 They love this. 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:26.599 Because they love substitutions. 00:11:26.739 --> 00:11:27.779 They love that thought. 00:11:27.779 --> 00:11:30.079 It's Him for us. 00:11:30.299 --> 00:11:30.899 Him for us. 00:11:31.019 --> 00:11:32.100 He is the great stand-in. 00:11:32.179 --> 00:11:33.299 He is the great substitute. 00:11:34.059 --> 00:11:37.480 Now, as we consider what we've read in Matthew 27. 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:39.279 Let's use it as tracing paper. 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:42.100 And put it over Isaiah 53. 00:11:43.439 --> 00:11:44.439 Him for us. 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:45.360 Him for us. 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:50.620 As we do it, consider two things about what we read in Matthew. 00:11:52.199 --> 00:11:55.699 Firstly, consider, friends, what Jesus bore. 00:11:57.779 --> 00:11:59.720 For what He bore, and you've got to get this right. 00:12:01.379 --> 00:12:04.059 Was nothing less than the wrath of God. 00:12:05.579 --> 00:12:09.819 God's just and righteous anger against our sin. 00:12:09.959 --> 00:12:14.139 The penalty of which was rightly due to us. 00:12:14.419 --> 00:12:15.939 It was Him for us. 00:12:17.459 --> 00:12:17.659 Yeah? 00:12:17.799 --> 00:12:21.259 He took it upon Himself as He endured what we've been singing about. 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:23.199 The agony of the cross. 00:12:23.339 --> 00:12:26.699 And says, Father, it is me for them. 00:12:26.700 --> 00:12:28.300 Me for them. 00:12:29.580 --> 00:12:37.259 Do you see how at the end of verse 4, back in Isaiah, the people thought that Jesus was being cursed by God. 00:12:38.140 --> 00:12:38.900 Do you see? 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:43.240 And at one level, that observation is bang on the money. 00:12:44.400 --> 00:12:48.720 Because He was becoming a curse for us. 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:52.460 He was bearing the curse that we deserve. 00:12:52.540 --> 00:12:56.779 Not that He deserved, but that we deserved. 00:12:58.420 --> 00:13:02.580 And these are deeply human and personal words. 00:13:02.580 --> 00:13:04.860 Find yourself in them. 00:13:04.980 --> 00:13:07.300 Like you used to with your old school photographs, right? 00:13:07.340 --> 00:13:08.540 You used to come out and look for your face. 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:11.240 Find yourself in these verses. 00:13:11.500 --> 00:13:12.580 It was our griefs. 00:13:14.340 --> 00:13:15.580 And our transgressions. 00:13:16.280 --> 00:13:17.759 And our inequities. 00:13:17.920 --> 00:13:19.639 For them He was crushed. 00:13:19.800 --> 00:13:21.400 For them He was wounded. 00:13:21.560 --> 00:13:23.480 For them He was cut off. 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:26.379 It was Him for us. 00:13:28.860 --> 00:13:33.200 Some of you might know that famous Rembrandt painting. 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:36.019 When he painted the crucifixion scene. 00:13:38.100 --> 00:13:39.159 And what's fascinating. 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:40.920 You go on Google tonight and you'll find this out. 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:43.180 Fascinating about it. 00:13:43.179 --> 00:13:45.559 Is that this one in particular. 00:13:45.699 --> 00:13:46.179 If you look at it. 00:13:46.239 --> 00:13:47.419 There's a funny chap in the middle. 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:48.419 You see with a funny hat. 00:13:50.059 --> 00:13:54.299 And the thinking is that Rembrandt painted himself into this scene. 00:13:55.899 --> 00:13:58.539 As one of the men who was crucifying Jesus. 00:13:58.699 --> 00:13:59.979 As if to say on one hand. 00:14:00.079 --> 00:14:01.059 I wasn't there. 00:14:01.779 --> 00:14:02.819 I wasn't there. 00:14:02.819 --> 00:14:04.219 The original Good Friday. 00:14:04.579 --> 00:14:05.399 In one sense. 00:14:06.699 --> 00:14:08.000 But in another sense. 00:14:08.139 --> 00:14:09.859 I absolutely was. 00:14:09.860 --> 00:14:14.139 Because it was my sin that put Him there. 00:14:14.899 --> 00:14:17.159 It was my sin that nailed Him to the cross. 00:14:17.620 --> 00:14:18.000 Friends. 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:18.700 That. 00:14:19.899 --> 00:14:21.940 Is what the old hymn writer was saying. 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:23.960 T'was I that shed the sacred blood. 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:25.580 I nailed Him to the tree. 00:14:25.700 --> 00:14:27.759 I crucified the Christ of God. 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:29.320 I joined the mockery. 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:32.860 It's at the cross that we see. 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:35.420 The truth about our sin. 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:39.279 That it's hideous in the sight of our holy God. 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:41.259 So hideous in fact. 00:14:41.319 --> 00:14:42.779 That it put a real man. 00:14:43.860 --> 00:14:45.459 On a real cross. 00:14:47.079 --> 00:14:49.759 And there hang suspended Jesus the son. 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:52.779 Having endured sweat drops of blood. 00:14:52.939 --> 00:14:55.659 Such was His determination to pay for it. 00:14:55.740 --> 00:14:57.039 It was Him for us. 00:14:57.579 --> 00:14:58.360 Him for us. 00:14:58.779 --> 00:15:00.100 That's what He bore. 00:15:02.079 --> 00:15:03.819 I've got to feel the gravity of that. 00:15:03.820 --> 00:15:08.680 And secondly. 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:10.320 Consider how we benefit. 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:14.620 You see on the cross. 00:15:14.700 --> 00:15:16.200 Jesus' last words weren't. 00:15:16.340 --> 00:15:17.200 I'm finished. 00:15:21.400 --> 00:15:22.020 They were. 00:15:22.100 --> 00:15:22.960 It is finished. 00:15:23.800 --> 00:15:24.820 One word in the Greek. 00:15:24.980 --> 00:15:25.760 Tetalestai. 00:15:25.879 --> 00:15:26.760 It is done. 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:30.519 It is paid for. 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:33.559 All of our sin. 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:37.039 Has been buried with Him. 00:15:40.139 --> 00:15:42.159 Went to the grave with Christ. 00:15:42.519 --> 00:15:44.120 If our faith and trust is in Him. 00:15:45.980 --> 00:15:47.159 He dealt with it. 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:49.259 Went to the grave with Him. 00:15:50.100 --> 00:15:51.779 As far as the east is from the west. 00:15:51.980 --> 00:15:52.960 That's how far. 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:56.039 He has removed our transgressions from us. 00:15:56.120 --> 00:15:58.419 No wonder that's such a source of celebration. 00:15:59.019 --> 00:16:00.360 As you read the Psalms. 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:04.580 Here's what I know is true in my own life. 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:09.019 I know that the devil loves to go grave digging. 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:13.980 And go into the lockers of my life. 00:16:14.220 --> 00:16:16.740 And remind me time and time again. 00:16:16.740 --> 00:16:19.519 Of the ways that I've failed. 00:16:20.259 --> 00:16:22.139 And of the mistakes that I've made. 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:24.460 And of the words that I've said. 00:16:25.820 --> 00:16:27.259 And says who are you? 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:30.159 Who are you? 00:16:30.980 --> 00:16:32.539 To come before this God. 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:35.659 Well friends. 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:37.159 How patient is the Lord with us? 00:16:38.940 --> 00:16:41.200 Somebody in this church has said to me recently. 00:16:41.340 --> 00:16:43.180 We need to love the doctrine of. 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:46.159 The perseverance of the saints. 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:47.940 But we equally need to love. 00:16:48.500 --> 00:16:48.940 God's. 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:52.379 Patience with the saints. 00:16:54.379 --> 00:16:55.960 How patient is He with us? 00:16:58.279 --> 00:16:59.680 How patient is He. 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:02.399 And when the devil comes shooting at me. 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:06.259 Christ steps in. 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:11.019 And when the devil makes his accusation. 00:17:11.259 --> 00:17:13.299 Jesus would rally back and say. 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:14.480 Hands off. 00:17:15.859 --> 00:17:19.259 Because I paid for every single sin of His. 00:17:19.980 --> 00:17:20.480 Past. 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:21.460 Present. 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:22.859 And future. 00:17:22.859 --> 00:17:24.199 And He's mine. 00:17:24.199 --> 00:17:24.759 And He's mine. 00:17:25.979 --> 00:17:28.639 And what accusation are you going to bring against Him. 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:31.279 That I have not paid for. 00:17:32.479 --> 00:17:33.759 And I love Him. 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:36.779 And that's what He declares. 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:38.680 Over you tonight. 00:17:39.940 --> 00:17:41.500 Whatever is going on in your life. 00:17:41.619 --> 00:17:42.519 Wherever you're at. 00:17:42.619 --> 00:17:44.079 Whatever mistakes you've made. 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:44.680 Friends. 00:17:44.740 --> 00:17:46.200 There is forgiveness in. 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:48.539 The person and work of Jesus. 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:50.400 You see. 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:51.019 He is. 00:17:51.360 --> 00:17:52.940 God's wonderful answer. 00:17:53.220 --> 00:17:54.080 His glorious. 00:17:54.259 --> 00:17:54.900 Loving answer. 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:55.920 To the tension. 00:17:56.059 --> 00:17:57.180 That's in that text. 00:17:57.180 --> 00:18:01.940 And what is the end result of this servant's work. 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:03.160 Do you see it in the text there. 00:18:03.220 --> 00:18:03.640 What is it? 00:18:03.700 --> 00:18:04.440 It's the word. 00:18:05.360 --> 00:18:05.759 Peace. 00:18:09.080 --> 00:18:10.299 And the invitation then. 00:18:10.340 --> 00:18:10.960 Brothers and sisters. 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:11.940 Is to come. 00:18:13.860 --> 00:18:15.380 And see His wounds. 00:18:18.220 --> 00:18:19.259 See His wounds. 00:18:20.259 --> 00:18:20.539 And do you know. 00:18:20.600 --> 00:18:21.640 I love just really quickly. 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:26.020 I love that we find Jesus saying that exact same thing. 00:18:27.220 --> 00:18:28.780 To one of His disciples. 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:31.460 At the end of John's Gospel. 00:18:33.280 --> 00:18:34.280 See the wounds. 00:18:35.120 --> 00:18:35.259 Right. 00:18:35.340 --> 00:18:35.980 Do you know what I'm talking about? 00:18:36.040 --> 00:18:38.020 This man called Thomas. 00:18:38.320 --> 00:18:39.700 Who I always think gets a. 00:18:40.140 --> 00:18:42.020 Very selective stigma attached to him. 00:18:42.700 --> 00:18:43.060 Actually. 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:43.360 Right. 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:45.460 What's the central and dominating verb. 00:18:45.600 --> 00:18:46.960 That we love about this man Thomas. 00:18:48.560 --> 00:18:49.780 It's the word doubting. 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:50.140 Isn't it? 00:18:51.640 --> 00:18:53.960 But there's way more to this guy than that. 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:55.680 Right. 00:18:55.800 --> 00:18:58.259 I derive such strength. 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:00.360 When I step into his shoes. 00:19:00.360 --> 00:19:02.160 As I read about him in John's Gospel. 00:19:02.520 --> 00:19:02.720 Right. 00:19:03.020 --> 00:19:04.840 Because he appears three times in John's Gospel. 00:19:04.940 --> 00:19:05.440 Maybe you know this. 00:19:05.500 --> 00:19:07.040 But he appears three times there. 00:19:08.320 --> 00:19:10.180 Firstly in chapter 11. 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:10.540 Right. 00:19:10.600 --> 00:19:11.880 And it's bravado Thomas. 00:19:12.040 --> 00:19:12.700 It's brave Thomas. 00:19:14.340 --> 00:19:14.780 Right. 00:19:14.900 --> 00:19:16.580 Jesus has just told his disciples. 00:19:16.580 --> 00:19:18.060 That Lazarus has died. 00:19:19.140 --> 00:19:21.580 And that now is the time to go to Judea. 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:22.680 And to Bethany. 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:23.700 To go back. 00:19:24.280 --> 00:19:27.759 And presumably knowing that Jesus is going towards Jerusalem. 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:29.740 The place where he's wanted dead. 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:31.120 Thomas says. 00:19:31.360 --> 00:19:32.460 Let's go with him. 00:19:34.140 --> 00:19:34.620 Right. 00:19:34.660 --> 00:19:36.060 We are willing to die. 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:37.620 That we may die with him. 00:19:37.820 --> 00:19:39.280 It is brave Thomas. 00:19:39.380 --> 00:19:39.500 Right. 00:19:39.600 --> 00:19:41.060 It's testosterone Thomas. 00:19:41.180 --> 00:19:42.120 He's up for a fight. 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:43.020 He's up for it. 00:19:43.019 --> 00:19:46.160 And the next place you see him. 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:48.160 Is three chapters later. 00:19:48.299 --> 00:19:49.139 Chapter 14. 00:19:50.579 --> 00:19:53.019 And Jesus has just dropped the bombshell. 00:19:53.379 --> 00:19:54.480 On his disciples. 00:19:54.700 --> 00:19:55.539 That he's leaving them. 00:19:57.039 --> 00:19:58.220 He's going to die. 00:19:58.379 --> 00:20:00.139 And then return to heaven. 00:20:01.099 --> 00:20:02.059 But he tells them. 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:03.359 That they can rest assured. 00:20:03.460 --> 00:20:04.000 In the knowledge. 00:20:04.099 --> 00:20:04.759 That one day. 00:20:04.859 --> 00:20:06.220 He will come back for them. 00:20:06.700 --> 00:20:07.740 And take them. 00:20:07.740 --> 00:20:09.180 To be where he is. 00:20:09.180 --> 00:20:10.539 In his father's house. 00:20:10.660 --> 00:20:11.660 Are many rooms. 00:20:11.740 --> 00:20:13.360 But Thomas can't get his head around it. 00:20:14.080 --> 00:20:15.180 Can't understand it. 00:20:16.560 --> 00:20:19.039 How can we know the way Lord? 00:20:19.140 --> 00:20:20.080 That's what he's worried about. 00:20:20.140 --> 00:20:21.340 When you're not physically here. 00:20:21.420 --> 00:20:22.140 How do we know? 00:20:23.100 --> 00:20:24.480 To which Jesus says. 00:20:24.740 --> 00:20:25.620 I am. 00:20:26.180 --> 00:20:26.759 The way. 00:20:27.019 --> 00:20:27.500 The truth. 00:20:27.740 --> 00:20:28.100 And. 00:20:28.759 --> 00:20:29.460 The life. 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:32.080 So we've moved from brave Thomas. 00:20:33.019 --> 00:20:34.200 To bemused Thomas. 00:20:34.460 --> 00:20:35.279 Confused Thomas. 00:20:35.360 --> 00:20:36.380 He doesn't understand. 00:20:36.900 --> 00:20:37.779 What's going on. 00:20:37.779 --> 00:20:38.819 And then the third time. 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:39.779 That he crops up. 00:20:39.899 --> 00:20:40.859 Comes right at the end. 00:20:40.879 --> 00:20:41.460 Of the gospel. 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:44.160 Chapter 20. 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:46.759 So the risen Jesus. 00:20:47.299 --> 00:20:47.480 Right. 00:20:47.579 --> 00:20:48.180 Giving the game away. 00:20:48.259 --> 00:20:48.720 For Sunday. 00:20:48.859 --> 00:20:49.940 The risen Jesus. 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:50.819 Has appeared. 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:51.859 To his disciples. 00:20:52.099 --> 00:20:53.639 And they are overjoyed. 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:55.180 But there's one noticeable. 00:20:55.460 --> 00:20:55.819 Absentee. 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:56.559 From that group. 00:20:58.579 --> 00:20:58.980 Thomas. 00:20:59.339 --> 00:21:00.319 Wasn't there. 00:21:01.059 --> 00:21:02.980 He's utterly distraught. 00:21:03.079 --> 00:21:04.319 He just doesn't know. 00:21:04.460 --> 00:21:04.859 What to do. 00:21:05.079 --> 00:21:05.799 Doesn't understand. 00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:06.440 What's going on. 00:21:06.440 --> 00:21:08.019 You can imagine it in their dialogue. 00:21:08.140 --> 00:21:08.640 In his mind. 00:21:08.740 --> 00:21:08.880 Right. 00:21:08.940 --> 00:21:10.180 I trusted this man. 00:21:10.380 --> 00:21:12.500 I staked it all in this man. 00:21:12.620 --> 00:21:13.900 I believed what he said. 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:14.900 And now look at me. 00:21:15.140 --> 00:21:16.420 I'm an utter fool. 00:21:17.500 --> 00:21:19.299 And perhaps it was just a sheer humiliation. 00:21:19.539 --> 00:21:20.539 That kept Thomas away. 00:21:20.640 --> 00:21:22.000 From hanging out with the rest of them. 00:21:22.059 --> 00:21:24.380 I don't want to be associated with this lie anymore. 00:21:26.059 --> 00:21:28.660 And all of that spills out in his response. 00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:30.220 When the other disciples tell him. 00:21:30.299 --> 00:21:31.220 We've seen the Lord. 00:21:31.220 --> 00:21:32.440 And Thomas says. 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:34.660 Unless I see the wounds. 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:37.559 I won't believe. 00:21:37.900 --> 00:21:39.039 Which you've got to say. 00:21:39.120 --> 00:21:40.600 Makes absolute sense. 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:41.259 Does it not? 00:21:43.440 --> 00:21:45.259 It's not so much doubting Thomas. 00:21:45.339 --> 00:21:47.279 As it is logical Thomas. 00:21:47.360 --> 00:21:48.700 Because if this isn't true. 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:49.779 If he has not risen. 00:21:50.440 --> 00:21:50.900 Then friends. 00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:52.059 Let me just suggest to you. 00:21:52.140 --> 00:21:54.019 That you and I are wasting our time massively. 00:21:54.019 --> 00:21:54.660 Here tonight. 00:21:54.660 --> 00:21:59.320 But eight days later. 00:22:00.340 --> 00:22:01.759 Thomas somehow. 00:22:02.759 --> 00:22:04.060 Is back with the gang. 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:05.759 Right? 00:22:05.840 --> 00:22:06.300 Maybe they. 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:06.700 They. 00:22:07.980 --> 00:22:09.180 Pestered him so much. 00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:11.380 Maybe it was intrigue that brought him back. 00:22:11.460 --> 00:22:12.519 You can only speculate. 00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:13.740 But Jesus appears. 00:22:14.500 --> 00:22:16.600 And Thomas is there. 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:19.700 Now picture the scene. 00:22:20.840 --> 00:22:22.019 Considering that. 00:22:22.019 --> 00:22:25.859 What do you think Jesus' first words. 00:22:25.980 --> 00:22:26.599 To this group. 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:27.440 Including Thomas. 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:28.539 Who's on Jesus' mind. 00:22:28.639 --> 00:22:29.160 Could have been. 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:30.619 Right? 00:22:31.359 --> 00:22:32.279 Told you so. 00:22:34.299 --> 00:22:34.700 Right? 00:22:34.879 --> 00:22:36.039 Not looking so smug. 00:22:36.099 --> 00:22:36.900 Now are you punk? 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:39.639 You had your chance. 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:41.440 You had your cake. 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:42.599 Now you have to eat it. 00:22:42.599 --> 00:22:44.519 But what does he say to all the group. 00:22:44.619 --> 00:22:45.220 Including Thomas. 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:46.119 Who's right there. 00:22:46.980 --> 00:22:48.480 As he makes a beeline. 00:22:49.980 --> 00:22:51.000 For this man. 00:22:52.019 --> 00:22:53.559 What is his first words. 00:22:53.779 --> 00:22:54.519 To this group. 00:22:54.619 --> 00:22:56.220 Including this one fragile. 00:22:56.400 --> 00:22:57.319 And weary soul. 00:22:57.559 --> 00:22:58.400 Who doesn't know. 00:22:58.440 --> 00:22:59.319 Is coming from his going. 00:22:59.420 --> 00:23:00.099 What does he say? 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:03.059 He says peace. 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:08.059 How can he say that? 00:23:08.379 --> 00:23:09.799 Because he then goes on to say. 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:12.460 See my wounds. 00:23:15.180 --> 00:23:15.779 Touch them. 00:23:17.099 --> 00:23:17.660 Touch them. 00:23:17.740 --> 00:23:18.359 And Thomas does. 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:20.439 And he says. 00:23:20.439 --> 00:23:21.039 My Lord. 00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:21.659 And my God. 00:23:21.740 --> 00:23:22.240 This wonderful. 00:23:22.659 --> 00:23:23.599 Christological confession. 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:24.919 That we get right at the end. 00:23:24.979 --> 00:23:25.719 Of John's gospel. 00:23:26.179 --> 00:23:26.859 And in doing so. 00:23:26.919 --> 00:23:27.839 Do you see how Thomas. 00:23:28.059 --> 00:23:29.839 Is John's ultimate proof case. 00:23:29.899 --> 00:23:30.859 For the skeptic. 00:23:31.699 --> 00:23:32.379 In other words. 00:23:32.459 --> 00:23:33.979 Thomas was no gullible man. 00:23:34.119 --> 00:23:35.279 Thomas was not duped. 00:23:35.539 --> 00:23:36.799 And if you're in this camp. 00:23:36.899 --> 00:23:38.559 Which we so often are. 00:23:38.619 --> 00:23:39.319 In our western. 00:23:39.740 --> 00:23:40.219 Enlightened. 00:23:40.379 --> 00:23:40.859 World. 00:23:41.259 --> 00:23:42.119 Where we think something. 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:42.979 Has to be seen. 00:23:43.059 --> 00:23:43.759 To be believed. 00:23:44.019 --> 00:23:45.159 Know that Thomas was there. 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:47.040 Well before you and I were. 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:48.640 And we can trust. 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:49.519 That this man. 00:23:49.840 --> 00:23:51.180 Knows what he's talking about. 00:23:53.480 --> 00:23:54.519 I think something more. 00:23:54.580 --> 00:23:55.340 Is going on here though. 00:23:55.420 --> 00:23:56.620 As Thomas sees those wounds. 00:23:58.920 --> 00:24:00.160 I take it the proof. 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:01.320 Of this risen Jesus. 00:24:02.360 --> 00:24:03.540 Like a stone. 00:24:03.940 --> 00:24:05.240 As it hits the water. 00:24:05.240 --> 00:24:06.300 Of Thomas's heart. 00:24:06.460 --> 00:24:07.259 And ripples out. 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:09.060 Into every single other area. 00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:12.880 Is that those wounds speak. 00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:16.000 And tell him. 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:17.400 That everything Jesus said. 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:19.800 Is true. 00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:24.220 That he is the resurrection. 00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:24.880 And the life. 00:24:25.880 --> 00:24:27.220 That he is the way. 00:24:27.300 --> 00:24:27.660 The truth. 00:24:27.740 --> 00:24:28.140 And the life. 00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:29.480 And because those wounds. 00:24:29.620 --> 00:24:30.100 Are real. 00:24:31.820 --> 00:24:33.180 All of my failures. 00:24:33.779 --> 00:24:35.400 And all of my doubts. 00:24:35.759 --> 00:24:37.259 And all of my sin. 00:24:38.140 --> 00:24:39.000 And all of my confusion. 00:24:39.840 --> 00:24:41.060 And all of my weariness. 00:24:41.540 --> 00:24:43.100 And all of my mistakes. 00:24:43.099 --> 00:24:45.259 And all of my bitter words. 00:24:45.500 --> 00:24:47.500 And all of my emotions. 00:24:47.719 --> 00:24:48.579 All of my regrets. 00:24:48.719 --> 00:24:49.799 All of my fragility. 00:24:50.079 --> 00:24:50.959 It was him. 00:24:51.439 --> 00:24:52.119 For me. 00:24:53.779 --> 00:24:54.699 It was him. 00:24:54.879 --> 00:24:55.359 For me. 00:24:55.819 --> 00:24:57.199 And because he is. 00:24:57.279 --> 00:24:58.159 Who he says he is. 00:24:58.219 --> 00:24:59.259 Because there is life. 00:24:59.339 --> 00:25:00.319 In these wounds. 00:25:02.919 --> 00:25:04.319 I can know peace with God. 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:08.200 And so likewise. 00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:08.939 The invitation. 00:25:08.939 --> 00:25:09.919 That this Jesus makes. 00:25:09.980 --> 00:25:11.539 To all of us here tonight. 00:25:12.799 --> 00:25:14.279 Is to come to him. 00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:15.879 Whatever is going on in your life. 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:16.939 Come to him tonight. 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:18.159 Whatever is going on in your past. 00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:19.159 Come to him tonight. 00:25:19.480 --> 00:25:20.859 Whatever is on in your mind. 00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:22.240 Come to him tonight. 00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:23.980 And allow his wounds. 00:25:25.259 --> 00:25:26.659 To define who you are. 00:25:26.660 --> 00:25:30.480 And just as we close. 00:25:30.560 --> 00:25:31.860 Here is a little tester question. 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:32.540 To see if. 00:25:33.320 --> 00:25:34.759 Our hearts really get this. 00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:37.080 Let me just say. 00:25:37.120 --> 00:25:38.240 The Lord has used this thought. 00:25:38.300 --> 00:25:39.880 Almost like a battering ram. 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:41.220 To lower the drawbridge. 00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:42.779 Of my proud and sinful heart. 00:25:42.779 --> 00:25:44.100 That is so often in denial. 00:25:45.300 --> 00:25:47.080 And allow his spirit of grace. 00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:47.960 To cross the bridge. 00:25:48.040 --> 00:25:49.080 Enter in and transform. 00:25:49.380 --> 00:25:50.180 Here is the question. 00:25:50.279 --> 00:25:50.940 You ready for it? 00:25:52.440 --> 00:25:52.840 Friends. 00:25:52.900 --> 00:25:53.720 Where do we run. 00:25:54.279 --> 00:25:55.420 When we mess up? 00:25:55.420 --> 00:25:59.940 When we get it wrong. 00:26:00.660 --> 00:26:01.420 Where do we go? 00:26:03.800 --> 00:26:04.900 Where do we run to? 00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:07.940 Now the answer to that question. 00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:09.100 Is going to come down to. 00:26:09.259 --> 00:26:10.460 Who you understand. 00:26:11.400 --> 00:26:12.320 God to be. 00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:15.539 Is he now in Jesus? 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:17.440 Is he a cruel head teacher? 00:26:17.980 --> 00:26:19.420 Is hiding behind Jesus. 00:26:20.320 --> 00:26:23.039 Some God that is thinner on grace. 00:26:23.300 --> 00:26:24.759 And lesser on love. 00:26:24.759 --> 00:26:26.619 Or is he actually. 00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:28.799 As we gaze at the son. 00:26:28.900 --> 00:26:29.859 We gaze at the father. 00:26:30.019 --> 00:26:31.359 Is he a loving father? 00:26:32.879 --> 00:26:33.140 You see. 00:26:33.200 --> 00:26:34.039 Here is what it says. 00:26:34.339 --> 00:26:35.200 Religion says. 00:26:35.319 --> 00:26:36.319 I messed up. 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:38.879 My dad is going to kill me. 00:26:40.019 --> 00:26:40.259 Right. 00:26:40.299 --> 00:26:40.960 Remember those days. 00:26:41.079 --> 00:26:42.160 I remember them well. 00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:43.079 When I was a teenager. 00:26:43.259 --> 00:26:44.000 I have messed up. 00:26:44.259 --> 00:26:45.379 My dad is going to kill me. 00:26:46.140 --> 00:26:47.559 How is Adam and Eve in the garden? 00:26:47.640 --> 00:26:47.980 Wasn't it? 00:26:48.059 --> 00:26:48.839 Genesis 3. 00:26:49.140 --> 00:26:50.299 Hiding in their shame. 00:26:50.500 --> 00:26:51.500 Blaming each other. 00:26:51.500 --> 00:26:53.980 Is that your go to? 00:26:55.720 --> 00:26:56.700 Here is something better. 00:26:58.079 --> 00:26:59.519 The gospel says. 00:26:59.940 --> 00:27:01.160 I have messed up. 00:27:02.759 --> 00:27:04.220 I need to run to my dad. 00:27:06.599 --> 00:27:07.799 I need to call him. 00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:10.599 I need to fall back. 00:27:10.659 --> 00:27:11.419 Not on who I am. 00:27:11.460 --> 00:27:12.299 But who he is. 00:27:12.779 --> 00:27:14.240 I need to find my identity. 00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:15.519 In the wounds. 00:27:17.659 --> 00:27:19.159 That's how you and I will know. 00:27:19.240 --> 00:27:20.159 If we found our identity. 00:27:20.159 --> 00:27:21.099 In his wounds. 00:27:21.500 --> 00:27:22.659 Because we understand. 00:27:23.059 --> 00:27:24.139 That it was him. 00:27:24.579 --> 00:27:25.099 For us. 00:27:25.899 --> 00:27:26.720 It was him. 00:27:27.220 --> 00:27:28.059 For us. 00:27:28.059 --> 00:27:30.379 That thought. 00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:31.599 Captured so well. 00:27:31.700 --> 00:27:32.159 In the lyrics. 00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:33.980 That Christian songwriter. 00:27:34.119 --> 00:27:34.899 Graham Kendrick. 00:27:35.139 --> 00:27:35.639 Remember him. 00:27:36.220 --> 00:27:37.879 Penned way back in the 90s. 00:27:38.779 --> 00:27:40.019 And we finish with this. 00:27:40.619 --> 00:27:42.519 And so they watched him die. 00:27:43.960 --> 00:27:44.559 Despised. 00:27:44.700 --> 00:27:45.279 Rejected. 00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:45.940 But oh. 00:27:46.019 --> 00:27:47.240 The blood he shed. 00:27:48.179 --> 00:27:48.700 Flowed. 00:27:49.379 --> 00:27:49.799 For. 00:27:50.480 --> 00:27:50.740 Me. 00:27:52.099 --> 00:27:53.179 Amazing love. 00:27:53.319 --> 00:27:54.480 Oh what sacrifice. 00:27:54.779 --> 00:27:56.019 The son of God. 00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:57.159 Given for me. 00:27:57.160 --> 00:27:59.500 My debt he pays. 00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:01.540 And my death he dies. 00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:04.460 That I might live. 00:28:05.440 --> 00:28:06.900 That I might live. 00:28:07.860 --> 00:28:08.900 Let us pray. 00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:16.100 And so loving heavenly father. 00:28:16.300 --> 00:28:18.180 God of all grace. 00:28:18.420 --> 00:28:19.660 Father of mercies. 00:28:20.700 --> 00:28:22.480 We thank you Lord. 00:28:22.560 --> 00:28:24.380 For who you are tonight. 00:28:24.380 --> 00:28:28.420 And we just simply thank you. 00:28:28.500 --> 00:28:29.880 For sending Jesus. 00:28:30.660 --> 00:28:30.960 For. 00:28:31.620 --> 00:28:32.020 Us. 00:28:33.520 --> 00:28:34.860 And Lord I pray. 00:28:35.120 --> 00:28:36.100 That whatever is going on. 00:28:36.180 --> 00:28:37.800 In each of our hearts tonight. 00:28:38.120 --> 00:28:39.820 That our fresh knowledge. 00:28:41.460 --> 00:28:43.480 Of who he is. 00:28:44.580 --> 00:28:46.520 And what he has done for us. 00:28:47.340 --> 00:28:47.880 Oh father. 00:28:47.980 --> 00:28:49.680 Would it capture and invade. 00:28:50.240 --> 00:28:52.260 Every square inch of our hearts tonight. 00:28:52.259 --> 00:28:54.000 Father. 00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:54.859 Father thank you. 00:28:54.940 --> 00:28:56.700 Help us grasp more of the truth. 00:28:57.359 --> 00:28:58.619 That he died. 00:28:59.220 --> 00:29:00.500 So that we can live. 00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:02.579 In his name we pray. 00:29:03.259 --> 00:29:03.680 Amen. 00:29:04.339 --> 00:29:04.779 Amen.