WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.120 Please turn with me in your Bibles back to Mark's Gospel, Mark 15. 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:14.759 ! We'll read again at verse 33. 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:23.379 When the sixth hour had come, that's about midday, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 00:00:23.379 --> 00:00:27.140 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, 00:00:27.140 --> 00:00:31.620 Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani, which means, 00:00:31.940 --> 00:00:36.939 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 00:00:38.460 --> 00:00:40.000 Well, let's bow in prayer. 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:56.120 Heavenly Father, we are conscious this morning, Lord, that we do come to one of the most solemn and indeed weighty verses of Scripture. 00:00:57.140 --> 00:01:10.299 It is, Lord, a mystery to us, the depths of which Christ experienced the forsakenness of God at the cross. 00:01:10.299 --> 00:01:18.539 And so we pray, Father, that you would help us today to tread carefully in these verses. 00:01:18.540 --> 00:01:36.980 That you would give us something today of an understanding of the love and the obedience that took the Messiah to this place. 00:01:36.980 --> 00:01:41.680 And that we would be able to find comfort there. 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:50.719 To know that our sin has been dealt with decisively, conclusively, forever. 00:01:52.140 --> 00:01:53.960 And we ask this in Jesus' name. 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:55.620 Amen. 00:01:55.620 --> 00:02:09.060 The story of the gospel that Mark sets out to tell, you can read it at the beginning of Mark's gospel. 00:02:09.200 --> 00:02:13.980 He begins with these words, the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 00:02:13.979 --> 00:02:25.039 It is a story about this person, God the Son, Jesus, who is God the Son, the second person of the Trinity who is enfleshed and dwelt among us. 00:02:26.659 --> 00:02:37.939 And at the core of it, there is one of, I think, perhaps possibly the most perplexing moment in the whole of human history. 00:02:37.939 --> 00:02:49.699 That Jesus, who Mark has been at great pains to point out to us and to establish, is indeed the Son of God, utterly sinless. 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:54.139 That he utters these remarkable words. 00:02:54.979 --> 00:02:59.099 That he takes on his lips the opening verse of Psalm 22. 00:02:59.579 --> 00:03:02.460 Words that he would have known since he was probably a child. 00:03:02.460 --> 00:03:15.760 And that he cries out at this moment, acknowledging that there is more going on in the darkness of the cross than does immediately meet the eye. 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:20.100 You know, at the heart of this, there is the work of the atonement. 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:27.319 The work of God setting us at peace with himself. 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:35.719 And we therefore need to be sure of what is taking place here and what lies behind us. 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:38.239 There's two simple points that I want to think about today. 00:03:39.620 --> 00:03:42.139 The first of these is simply to recognize the facts. 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:50.780 We have to just establish in our minds the facts of what is taking place at this moment. 00:03:50.780 --> 00:03:57.539 And then alongside that, we also need to think about the reasons for this. 00:03:58.780 --> 00:04:00.599 And what is actually going on here? 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:04.639 Why does Jesus suffer and cry out like this? 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:09.300 The first of these things is to consider the facts. 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:14.620 The first fact is to recognize just who this is. 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:18.399 This is Jesus Christ. 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:24.979 And as Marcus told us at the beginning of his gospel, this is the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 00:04:25.799 --> 00:04:32.659 And there's a lot of things that we can kind of derive from that, that we can take from that and understand with some certainty. 00:04:34.039 --> 00:04:38.659 The one who says this is the sinless one. 00:04:38.660 --> 00:04:48.660 And that's quite a remarkable statement for us to think about because nobody else in the whole of human history has been sinless. 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:51.900 But the context here is really clear. 00:04:52.340 --> 00:05:00.440 Mark makes it very abundantly clear, in fact, that part of what's going on here is Pilate recognizes the guiltlessness of Jesus. 00:05:01.540 --> 00:05:03.980 The whole context is one of false accusation. 00:05:03.980 --> 00:05:12.040 The chief priests and the scribes and the Jewish rulers have concocted charges against Jesus. 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:13.400 Charges of blasphemy. 00:05:13.960 --> 00:05:19.120 Charges of insurrection and rebellion against the legal authority of the Roman emperor. 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:24.500 Charges that are mounted up and that they bring in false witnesses to testify to. 00:05:25.020 --> 00:05:29.800 They bring out a whole series of allegations against him. 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:36.540 And yet Pilate is the one who has said, there's no truth in any of this. 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:41.199 They're words that are echoed, in fact, by the centurion. 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:42.620 Truly, this was the Son of God. 00:05:43.020 --> 00:05:50.280 It's recognizing the special character and the uniqueness of Jesus. 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:56.240 And that uniqueness principally extends into his sinlessness. 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:04.460 And so we can therefore be sure that the Bible's assertion that he was entirely without guilt, 00:06:05.460 --> 00:06:12.240 that he is entirely free under the law, that he has complied with the requirements of the law, 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:14.240 is surely true. 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:27.439 Because nobody could isolate and identify an allegation of sin that would stick. 00:06:30.139 --> 00:06:35.160 Were one of us in that position, we can all put our hands up and say, 00:06:35.300 --> 00:06:37.759 truly, that would not be the case with me. 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:48.939 Were I to be tried before any form of authority and my life to be examined, 00:06:49.159 --> 00:06:53.159 people wouldn't have to concoct false charges against me. 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:59.519 There are plenty things that are true and which condemn me. 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:05.000 And I'm sure that today every one of us can say the same thing. 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:08.279 So Christ, the one who cries out, 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:10.659 my God, my God, why have you forsaken me, 00:07:11.099 --> 00:07:12.799 is sinless. 00:07:15.060 --> 00:07:17.699 Which deepens the perplexity of what we're seeing. 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:22.240 Then there's also the fact that he is the Son of God. 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:30.160 Again, the identity of Jesus as the Son of God has been the point of Mark's Gospel. 00:07:31.220 --> 00:07:37.079 Mark wants us to understand that this person who is the focus of this proclamation of good news 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:39.740 is none other than God the Son. 00:07:41.259 --> 00:07:43.819 And Mark is interested in the way he goes about this. 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:44.960 If you read through Mark's Gospel, 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:51.220 you can find numerous places where Mark is establishing the identity of Jesus. 00:07:51.220 --> 00:07:56.340 And he builds up to the same conclusion that John presents much more clearly in his introduction. 00:07:57.100 --> 00:07:59.280 That the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. 00:07:59.740 --> 00:08:02.280 That the Word was the one who was with God from all eternity 00:08:02.280 --> 00:08:03.860 and who came and dwelt among us. 00:08:03.900 --> 00:08:08.500 And for Mark, the way he establishes that is showing the authority of Jesus as a preacher. 00:08:09.020 --> 00:08:12.560 He does it in showing the miracles of Jesus and how that underscores that authority. 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:14.160 How Jesus, on one occasion, 00:08:14.860 --> 00:08:17.100 says, in fact, what is easier to say to somebody, 00:08:17.100 --> 00:08:19.880 your sins are forgiven or take up your bed and walk. 00:08:21.220 --> 00:08:24.200 And the people around him are astonished by this. 00:08:25.100 --> 00:08:26.460 Who can forgive sins but God? 00:08:26.900 --> 00:08:27.940 And Jesus has said to the man, 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:29.380 your sins are forgiven. 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:31.900 And then to show that he has the authority, 00:08:32.040 --> 00:08:33.060 he then says to the man, 00:08:33.420 --> 00:08:35.040 now you crippled man who cannot walk, 00:08:35.379 --> 00:08:37.980 take up your bed and go your way. 00:08:39.980 --> 00:08:41.660 And the crowds are astonished. 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:43.860 You've got a situation another time 00:08:43.860 --> 00:08:46.620 where the disciples are with Jesus in the boat going across the Sea of Galilee. 00:08:46.620 --> 00:08:49.460 And a ferocious storm has swept up. 00:08:50.100 --> 00:08:52.340 And the disciples are panicked. 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:54.399 They're fearing for their lives. 00:08:54.899 --> 00:08:57.080 They can't bail the water out of the boat fast enough. 00:08:57.399 --> 00:08:59.259 And so they waken Jesus in a panic and say, 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:01.279 Lord, don't you care that we're perishing here? 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:05.740 And Jesus, with just one softly spoken gentle word, 00:09:07.100 --> 00:09:11.259 commands the wind and the waves to cease. 00:09:11.259 --> 00:09:14.620 And instantly there is calm. 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:18.720 And the disciples are left with the question, 00:09:18.819 --> 00:09:20.700 who else can do this but God? 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:26.240 Jesus is, in fact, divine. 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:29.480 He has that authority. 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:31.340 He has that demeanor about him. 00:09:32.100 --> 00:09:34.620 And then you come to the cross. 00:09:34.620 --> 00:09:40.519 And you see that this figure who has spoken of God 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:43.679 directly as his father, 00:09:43.779 --> 00:09:45.759 and that's one of the things that the scribes 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:49.120 and the Pharisees found so offensive, 00:09:49.860 --> 00:09:53.840 was that he would claim this particular relationship with God 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:55.279 to call him father, 00:09:56.019 --> 00:09:58.919 a relationship that he shares now with his disciples and followers like us. 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:00.799 We can enter into that. 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:05.159 But for them it's such a blasphemous thought 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:08.799 that this, the Son of God, 00:10:09.539 --> 00:10:11.799 is now at the cross. 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:15.799 And here at the cross, 00:10:16.059 --> 00:10:16.879 God the Son 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:21.179 somehow becomes an outcast 00:10:21.179 --> 00:10:24.079 from his father. 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:28.420 So much so that, in fact, 00:10:28.500 --> 00:10:30.400 the fatherhood of God 00:10:30.400 --> 00:10:33.080 is no longer visible to him. 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:35.740 Where instead of father, 00:10:35.900 --> 00:10:37.379 he says for the first time, 00:10:38.020 --> 00:10:40.080 my God, my God, 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:42.100 why have you forsaken me? 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:47.259 In the darkness of the cross, 00:10:47.259 --> 00:10:52.299 the experience of Jesus 00:10:52.299 --> 00:10:56.480 is one where that relationship with the Father 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:58.179 seems to have disappeared, 00:10:59.439 --> 00:11:00.840 vanished into the darkness, 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:04.500 and we are left with something else. 00:11:06.439 --> 00:11:07.519 Which leads us, in fact, 00:11:07.580 --> 00:11:09.659 to another conclusion about what's actually going on here, 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:11.000 the facts of this. 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:14.000 And this is not merely 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:18.159 a moment of great injustice. 00:11:19.700 --> 00:11:20.820 I think plenty of people, 00:11:20.940 --> 00:11:23.039 when they think about the story of Jesus, 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:25.179 they would recognize the great injustice of it. 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:27.600 There are plenty of people would recognize and say, 00:11:27.740 --> 00:11:29.220 well, Jesus was wrongly condemned. 00:11:29.779 --> 00:11:32.100 It was a sham of a trial. 00:11:32.700 --> 00:11:34.320 Clearly, as Pilate recognizes, 00:11:34.500 --> 00:11:36.220 there's envy and bitterness 00:11:36.220 --> 00:11:38.460 that leads the Jewish authorities 00:11:38.460 --> 00:11:39.759 to this place where they would say, 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:41.259 crucify him, do away with him, 00:11:41.319 --> 00:11:41.919 we don't want him. 00:11:43.580 --> 00:11:45.159 But there is more going on. 00:11:46.179 --> 00:11:49.139 As the disciples note, 00:11:49.439 --> 00:11:50.840 particularly Peter, for example, 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:52.200 on the day of Pentecost notes, 00:11:53.340 --> 00:11:55.360 although human hands are instrumental 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:58.240 in driving the nails into his body, 00:11:59.819 --> 00:12:02.120 although human voices have called 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:03.299 for his rejection 00:12:03.299 --> 00:12:05.740 and for the crucifixion to come, 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:08.220 although he is rejected 00:12:08.220 --> 00:12:10.560 by both the civil magistrates 00:12:10.560 --> 00:12:11.759 and the religious authorities, 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:12.720 although he's rejected 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:14.680 by Jew and Gentile, 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:17.180 rejected by the whole of humanity, really, 00:12:18.540 --> 00:12:19.920 yet still, 00:12:20.180 --> 00:12:21.399 behind all of this, 00:12:22.340 --> 00:12:22.879 the Father 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:26.060 is in direct control. 00:12:26.059 --> 00:12:30.000 And we see that 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:31.659 because of the way Jesus cries. 00:12:35.019 --> 00:12:36.279 There is a certainty 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:38.379 that the Father is involved in this. 00:12:39.839 --> 00:12:41.079 The forsakenness 00:12:41.079 --> 00:12:43.279 that Jesus is experiencing 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:46.039 is not merely the forsakenness 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:47.019 of human comfort. 00:12:47.019 --> 00:12:50.039 He experiences, 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:51.159 for the first time, 00:12:51.779 --> 00:12:54.259 in the totality of his existence 00:12:54.259 --> 00:12:57.799 as the eternal Son of God. 00:12:59.079 --> 00:13:02.840 He experiences forsakenness. 00:13:04.299 --> 00:13:08.159 He experiences an abandonment 00:13:08.159 --> 00:13:12.079 that is alien to his experience. 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:16.460 And so the facts, 00:13:16.780 --> 00:13:17.440 in a way, 00:13:17.540 --> 00:13:18.400 speak for themselves. 00:13:19.980 --> 00:13:21.340 Not the mere facts 00:13:21.340 --> 00:13:23.000 of the form of his death 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:25.000 and the brutality of it 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:26.879 and the shame of that place. 00:13:27.139 --> 00:13:28.940 And it was all of these things. 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:30.020 We'll come to that tonight. 00:13:32.180 --> 00:13:34.200 But the fact of what is going on here, 00:13:35.160 --> 00:13:38.020 the central cross of Golgotha 00:13:38.020 --> 00:13:38.660 is occupied 00:13:38.660 --> 00:13:40.540 by the sinless one. 00:13:40.539 --> 00:13:43.620 the sinless Son of God 00:13:43.620 --> 00:13:45.740 who is here 00:13:45.740 --> 00:13:49.019 because this is the culmination 00:13:49.019 --> 00:13:53.159 of his self-emptying 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:56.219 to the point where the Father 00:13:56.219 --> 00:13:58.299 pours out upon him 00:13:58.299 --> 00:14:03.839 the wrath that sin deserves. 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:07.080 the settled, 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:10.000 established judgment 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.680 of your sin 00:14:12.680 --> 00:14:14.139 and mine. 00:14:16.040 --> 00:14:17.360 And that's because we have to see 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:18.660 the reasons for all 00:14:18.660 --> 00:14:20.019 that is taking place 00:14:20.019 --> 00:14:21.399 in this. 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:24.160 The first of that is to recognize 00:14:24.160 --> 00:14:26.360 that this is 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:28.160 the outworking 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:30.000 of the covenant 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:31.240 of redemption. 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:31.799 The covenant 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:31.919 of redemption. 00:14:33.439 --> 00:14:34.339 And by that, 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:35.459 I would say that the Trinity 00:14:35.459 --> 00:14:37.659 is therefore at work 00:14:37.659 --> 00:14:38.939 in this moment. 00:14:38.940 --> 00:14:41.880 The Father 00:14:41.880 --> 00:14:43.960 is here. 00:14:45.100 --> 00:14:46.660 And as Calvin points out, 00:14:46.700 --> 00:14:47.600 I think it's a wonderful 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:48.720 reminder to us, 00:14:48.780 --> 00:14:50.280 we should not insinuate 00:14:50.280 --> 00:14:51.820 hostility 00:14:51.820 --> 00:14:53.400 in these events. 00:14:54.520 --> 00:14:56.060 It's a useful reminder to us 00:14:56.060 --> 00:14:56.960 because the Father here 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:57.820 does not stop 00:14:57.820 --> 00:14:59.480 loving the Son. 00:15:00.920 --> 00:15:01.840 The Father's love 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:02.580 does not stop. 00:15:02.580 --> 00:15:05.160 but rather 00:15:05.160 --> 00:15:07.740 in the Father's eyes, 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:09.379 this moment 00:15:09.379 --> 00:15:10.180 is in fact 00:15:10.180 --> 00:15:10.900 the pinnacle 00:15:10.900 --> 00:15:12.660 of the love 00:15:12.660 --> 00:15:13.940 of a triune God. 00:15:16.180 --> 00:15:17.300 We know that 00:15:17.300 --> 00:15:18.520 because much earlier on 00:15:18.520 --> 00:15:19.580 in the Gospels, 00:15:20.379 --> 00:15:21.759 Jesus aligns himself 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:22.800 with this destiny. 00:15:24.220 --> 00:15:25.520 It's at the baptism 00:15:25.520 --> 00:15:26.259 of Jesus 00:15:26.259 --> 00:15:27.960 where John 00:15:27.960 --> 00:15:28.780 even recognized, 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:29.340 John the Baptist 00:15:29.340 --> 00:15:30.800 recognizes and says, 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:32.559 you don't need 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:33.179 to be baptized. 00:15:34.059 --> 00:15:35.279 You have no sin 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:36.639 that needs to be dealt with. 00:15:36.939 --> 00:15:37.699 You have no sin 00:15:37.699 --> 00:15:38.759 that needs to be recognized 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:39.740 and washed away. 00:15:40.139 --> 00:15:40.799 You have no need 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:41.199 of cleansing. 00:15:41.339 --> 00:15:41.679 In fact, 00:15:41.779 --> 00:15:43.179 I need cleansing from you. 00:15:44.719 --> 00:15:45.240 And John 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:46.179 is 00:15:46.179 --> 00:15:47.859 obliged 00:15:47.859 --> 00:15:49.019 to baptize Jesus 00:15:49.019 --> 00:15:49.599 at his command. 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:51.559 And so Jesus 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:52.519 at that moment 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:53.479 aligns himself 00:15:53.479 --> 00:15:55.019 with his people. 00:15:56.079 --> 00:15:57.000 He's putting himself 00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:57.479 in the position 00:15:57.479 --> 00:15:58.299 where he is saying 00:15:58.299 --> 00:16:00.659 the fate of my people 00:16:00.659 --> 00:16:01.339 and the punishment 00:16:01.339 --> 00:16:01.939 that they deserve 00:16:01.939 --> 00:16:02.240 for sin, 00:16:02.539 --> 00:16:03.519 their need of cleansing, 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:05.439 I will take upon myself. 00:16:06.539 --> 00:16:07.159 And as he comes 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:08.039 out of the water, 00:16:08.699 --> 00:16:09.639 you have that wonderful image 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:10.159 of the Trinity 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:10.699 being present. 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:11.740 Here is the Son 00:16:11.740 --> 00:16:12.939 coming out of the water, 00:16:13.079 --> 00:16:14.059 the Spirit of God 00:16:14.059 --> 00:16:14.719 descending on him 00:16:14.719 --> 00:16:15.159 like a dove, 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:16.500 and the voice of the Father 00:16:16.500 --> 00:16:16.819 saying, 00:16:16.980 --> 00:16:18.159 this is my beloved Son. 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:20.639 It leads us 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:21.600 to that conclusion, 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:22.079 in fact, 00:16:22.139 --> 00:16:22.759 that what Jesus 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:23.839 is doing at the cross 00:16:23.839 --> 00:16:25.279 is that moment 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:27.039 where in the Father's purposes, 00:16:27.220 --> 00:16:28.339 his love for his Son 00:16:28.340 --> 00:16:29.580 is never going 00:16:29.580 --> 00:16:30.160 to be greater. 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:32.820 Because here, 00:16:32.920 --> 00:16:33.940 the Son is obedient 00:16:33.940 --> 00:16:35.120 to something 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:36.420 that was transacted 00:16:36.420 --> 00:16:37.620 long before 00:16:37.620 --> 00:16:38.160 this world 00:16:38.160 --> 00:16:38.780 was created. 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:41.500 That before 00:16:41.500 --> 00:16:42.120 the foundation 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:42.720 of the world, 00:16:43.139 --> 00:16:43.980 the Father and the Son 00:16:43.980 --> 00:16:44.399 have entered 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:45.620 into a covenant together 00:16:45.620 --> 00:16:46.759 where they have agreed 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:47.320 that the Son 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:47.879 will come 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:48.340 and bear 00:16:48.340 --> 00:16:48.840 the sins 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:49.399 of his people, 00:16:49.860 --> 00:16:51.000 that the love of God 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:51.639 for his people 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:52.460 will be revealed 00:16:52.460 --> 00:16:53.759 and worked out 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:54.540 and manifested 00:16:54.540 --> 00:16:55.440 in its fullness 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:56.900 because the Son 00:16:56.900 --> 00:16:58.660 will take upon himself 00:16:58.660 --> 00:17:00.060 their guilt, 00:17:01.100 --> 00:17:02.340 their sin, 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:03.580 that which has kept them 00:17:03.580 --> 00:17:04.799 apart from God, 00:17:05.080 --> 00:17:06.680 that which has led us 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:07.539 away from God 00:17:07.539 --> 00:17:08.240 and left us 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:10.059 alienated from God, 00:17:10.460 --> 00:17:11.400 that the Son comes 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:12.660 and takes all of that 00:17:12.660 --> 00:17:14.000 alienation upon himself 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:17.720 and carries 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:19.620 our guilt. 00:17:19.619 --> 00:17:24.319 and you see that, 00:17:24.399 --> 00:17:25.219 the way that the Son 00:17:25.219 --> 00:17:27.019 comes to this moment. 00:17:27.159 --> 00:17:27.779 You see it in the 00:17:27.779 --> 00:17:28.779 Garden of Gethsemane. 00:17:29.899 --> 00:17:30.979 You see it as Jesus 00:17:30.979 --> 00:17:32.259 wrestles with the reality 00:17:32.259 --> 00:17:32.779 of the cup 00:17:32.779 --> 00:17:33.799 that is now before him 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:35.479 as he begins 00:17:35.479 --> 00:17:36.439 to see more clearly 00:17:36.439 --> 00:17:37.539 perhaps than at any point 00:17:37.539 --> 00:17:38.639 previously in his life 00:17:38.639 --> 00:17:40.319 what is going to be 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:41.339 involved here 00:17:41.339 --> 00:17:43.459 and he concedes 00:17:43.459 --> 00:17:43.839 and says, 00:17:43.979 --> 00:17:44.139 Father, 00:17:44.259 --> 00:17:44.879 not my will 00:17:44.879 --> 00:17:45.719 but yours be done. 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:46.739 That recognition 00:17:46.739 --> 00:17:47.939 of the Father's will 00:17:47.939 --> 00:17:48.799 being enacted 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:51.359 is Jesus 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:53.240 keeping his side 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:55.419 of the bargain. 00:17:57.779 --> 00:17:58.940 That God the Son 00:17:58.940 --> 00:18:00.139 agrees to complete 00:18:00.139 --> 00:18:01.139 what was agreed 00:18:01.139 --> 00:18:03.740 actually many, 00:18:03.819 --> 00:18:04.799 many, many years 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:05.879 and millennia 00:18:05.879 --> 00:18:07.180 and aeons before. 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:11.180 That he would come 00:18:11.180 --> 00:18:12.639 and bear the sin 00:18:12.639 --> 00:18:13.159 of his people. 00:18:15.379 --> 00:18:15.700 And in this, 00:18:15.779 --> 00:18:16.139 the Father 00:18:16.139 --> 00:18:17.680 then delivers 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:18.880 this verdict 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:19.420 on the Son 00:18:19.420 --> 00:18:20.200 condemns him. 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:23.980 And somehow 00:18:23.980 --> 00:18:24.600 the Spirit 00:18:24.600 --> 00:18:25.740 is also at work 00:18:25.740 --> 00:18:28.640 because in the experience 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:29.420 of Jesus 00:18:29.420 --> 00:18:32.120 despair does not 00:18:32.120 --> 00:18:32.700 set in. 00:18:35.240 --> 00:18:36.240 We should remember 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:36.519 that, 00:18:36.560 --> 00:18:37.019 that Jesus 00:18:37.019 --> 00:18:37.960 as he goes 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:38.799 to the cross 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:40.980 he is not 00:18:40.980 --> 00:18:41.620 left 00:18:41.620 --> 00:18:42.560 in a position 00:18:42.560 --> 00:18:43.580 where his faith 00:18:43.580 --> 00:18:44.240 fails. 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:47.539 this is not 00:18:47.539 --> 00:18:48.180 a cry 00:18:48.180 --> 00:18:49.059 of 00:18:49.059 --> 00:18:51.240 offense 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:52.500 against God. 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:54.039 This is not 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:54.559 the cry 00:18:54.559 --> 00:18:55.400 even of an atheist 00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:56.680 who has come 00:18:56.680 --> 00:18:57.259 and curses 00:18:57.259 --> 00:18:58.140 God's existence. 00:18:59.859 --> 00:19:01.279 This is the words 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:02.420 of David 00:19:02.420 --> 00:19:03.460 from Psalm 22 00:19:03.460 --> 00:19:04.200 that are words 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:04.900 that are filled 00:19:04.900 --> 00:19:05.460 with faith 00:19:05.460 --> 00:19:06.579 because Psalm 22 00:19:06.579 --> 00:19:07.579 is a psalm 00:19:07.579 --> 00:19:08.319 that is full 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:09.519 of the expectation 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:10.380 of some future 00:19:10.380 --> 00:19:11.220 deliverance 00:19:11.220 --> 00:19:12.900 that are taken 00:19:12.900 --> 00:19:13.360 on the lips 00:19:13.360 --> 00:19:13.920 of Jesus. 00:19:15.860 --> 00:19:16.559 And so when he 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:16.960 says, 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:17.700 my God, 00:19:17.779 --> 00:19:18.420 my God, 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:19.019 why have you 00:19:19.019 --> 00:19:19.640 forsaken me? 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:20.960 He's not abandoned 00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:22.380 his confidence 00:19:22.380 --> 00:19:23.880 in the purposes 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:24.680 of God. 00:19:25.339 --> 00:19:26.339 He hasn't abandoned 00:19:26.339 --> 00:19:27.160 his confidence 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:28.799 in the reality 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:29.759 of God's 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:31.100 faithful outworking 00:19:31.100 --> 00:19:31.819 of his 00:19:31.819 --> 00:19:33.059 sovereign covenant 00:19:33.059 --> 00:19:34.299 towards his people. 00:19:34.299 --> 00:19:37.539 And so the faith 00:19:37.539 --> 00:19:38.099 of Jesus 00:19:38.099 --> 00:19:40.119 is very clearly 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:40.799 on display. 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:43.539 But the experience 00:19:43.539 --> 00:19:46.480 is different. 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:48.740 And that's where 00:19:48.740 --> 00:19:49.720 we learn as Christians, 00:19:49.859 --> 00:19:50.119 in fact, 00:19:50.180 --> 00:19:50.879 in our experience, 00:19:51.139 --> 00:19:52.039 when we go through 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:52.859 times of suffering, 00:19:53.059 --> 00:19:53.659 we are learning, 00:19:53.819 --> 00:19:54.059 in fact, 00:19:54.099 --> 00:19:55.019 not merely something 00:19:55.019 --> 00:19:55.579 that will deepen 00:19:55.579 --> 00:19:56.220 our own faith 00:19:56.220 --> 00:19:56.740 and our dependence 00:19:56.740 --> 00:19:57.159 on God, 00:19:57.319 --> 00:19:58.359 but we are learning 00:19:58.359 --> 00:19:59.619 something of the 00:19:59.619 --> 00:20:00.579 experience of our 00:20:00.579 --> 00:20:00.879 Savior. 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:03.099 That that's actually 00:20:03.099 --> 00:20:03.819 where our faith 00:20:03.819 --> 00:20:05.299 really is deepened 00:20:05.299 --> 00:20:05.859 and strengthened. 00:20:06.699 --> 00:20:07.480 That when we go 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:08.079 through times 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:08.779 of suffering 00:20:08.779 --> 00:20:09.779 and where we are 00:20:09.779 --> 00:20:10.699 perplexed and where 00:20:10.699 --> 00:20:11.459 we are confused 00:20:11.459 --> 00:20:12.619 by these experiences, 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:14.599 we come to a place 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:16.159 of settled confidence 00:20:16.159 --> 00:20:17.559 in our Father. 00:20:21.879 --> 00:20:23.159 And we remember 00:20:23.159 --> 00:20:26.439 just why that is so. 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:30.539 Because although 00:20:30.539 --> 00:20:31.399 there may be nothing 00:20:31.399 --> 00:20:32.599 in Jesus' experience 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:33.839 here that suggests 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:34.939 the Father's love, 00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:36.339 all of the comforts 00:20:36.339 --> 00:20:37.000 are stripped away, 00:20:37.099 --> 00:20:38.179 the disciples are gone, 00:20:38.259 --> 00:20:39.039 they've abandoned him, 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:40.619 the women are far off, 00:20:41.099 --> 00:20:42.079 when he needed God 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:42.480 the most, 00:20:42.579 --> 00:20:43.379 there was no answer 00:20:43.379 --> 00:20:44.119 for him. 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:45.659 In fact, 00:20:45.699 --> 00:20:46.379 there's this very clear 00:20:46.379 --> 00:20:47.079 sense that Jesus 00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:48.159 comes perhaps even 00:20:48.159 --> 00:20:48.759 to this place 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:51.459 of utter realization 00:20:51.459 --> 00:20:52.859 of what it is 00:20:52.859 --> 00:20:53.779 to become sin 00:20:53.779 --> 00:20:55.939 and be abandoned 00:20:55.939 --> 00:20:56.599 by God. 00:20:56.599 --> 00:20:59.659 yet there is nothing 00:20:59.659 --> 00:21:00.500 to suggest 00:21:00.500 --> 00:21:01.759 that Jesus 00:21:01.759 --> 00:21:02.779 forgot his role. 00:21:04.399 --> 00:21:05.399 There is nothing 00:21:05.399 --> 00:21:06.299 here to suggest 00:21:06.299 --> 00:21:06.879 that Jesus 00:21:06.879 --> 00:21:09.159 forgot his people. 00:21:10.619 --> 00:21:11.480 There is nothing 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:12.119 here to suggest 00:21:12.119 --> 00:21:12.719 that Jesus 00:21:12.719 --> 00:21:14.259 forgot us. 00:21:16.019 --> 00:21:17.240 That in the darkness 00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:18.619 we can say 00:21:18.619 --> 00:21:19.799 that the words 00:21:19.799 --> 00:21:20.759 that were cried out 00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:21.959 are not words 00:21:21.959 --> 00:21:22.859 of interrogation 00:21:22.859 --> 00:21:23.359 of God. 00:21:25.099 --> 00:21:26.059 They are words 00:21:26.059 --> 00:21:27.439 rather of astonishment 00:21:27.439 --> 00:21:30.419 at what God's hand 00:21:30.419 --> 00:21:31.479 is doing 00:21:31.479 --> 00:21:32.399 upon him. 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:36.380 And so today 00:21:36.380 --> 00:21:38.300 we come to the Lord's table 00:21:38.300 --> 00:21:40.280 and we're coming 00:21:40.280 --> 00:21:42.600 with this eternal security 00:21:42.600 --> 00:21:44.580 now worked out 00:21:44.580 --> 00:21:45.480 for us. 00:21:46.220 --> 00:21:47.680 And it's an eternal security 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:48.900 that found its beginning 00:21:48.900 --> 00:21:50.040 in the ages 00:21:50.040 --> 00:21:50.880 before the foundation 00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:51.480 of the world. 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:53.019 That the Father 00:21:53.019 --> 00:21:53.519 and the Son 00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:54.600 have already agreed 00:21:54.600 --> 00:21:55.360 to do this 00:21:55.360 --> 00:21:56.280 and the Son 00:21:56.280 --> 00:21:57.820 now has completed 00:21:57.820 --> 00:21:58.880 the task 00:21:58.880 --> 00:21:59.519 that was agreed 00:21:59.519 --> 00:22:00.320 before the foundation 00:22:00.320 --> 00:22:00.800 of the world 00:22:00.800 --> 00:22:02.220 and so therefore now 00:22:02.220 --> 00:22:02.960 we can have 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:04.440 this absolute certainty 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:06.059 about, for example, 00:22:06.299 --> 00:22:07.480 the Lamb's book of life. 00:22:08.500 --> 00:22:09.200 That that today 00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:10.240 is where our assurance 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:10.759 is rooted. 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:12.640 That our assurance 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:14.259 today is now resolved 00:22:14.259 --> 00:22:15.079 in the obedience 00:22:15.079 --> 00:22:15.860 of Jesus 00:22:15.860 --> 00:22:16.839 at the cross. 00:22:18.339 --> 00:22:18.720 And today 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:19.559 we might be sitting here 00:22:19.559 --> 00:22:20.339 coming to the Lord's table 00:22:20.339 --> 00:22:20.660 and thinking 00:22:20.660 --> 00:22:21.519 I am so unworthy. 00:22:21.740 --> 00:22:22.460 There may even be 00:22:22.460 --> 00:22:22.900 some of you 00:22:22.900 --> 00:22:23.759 sitting upstairs today 00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:24.620 who are not going to come down 00:22:24.620 --> 00:22:25.960 because you are a believer 00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:27.680 but you feel unworthy. 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:31.299 Well stop. 00:22:32.220 --> 00:22:34.299 Because Jesus 00:22:34.299 --> 00:22:36.220 has done it all. 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:38.759 Jesus is 00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:39.860 the worthy one. 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:41.539 And that's the whole point 00:22:41.539 --> 00:22:42.380 of our faith. 00:22:42.819 --> 00:22:43.680 It's not for us 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:44.700 ever to get to a point 00:22:44.700 --> 00:22:45.200 where we can say 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:46.100 well now I'm worthy 00:22:46.100 --> 00:22:46.900 enough to come. 00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:48.200 Now I'm worthy enough 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:48.880 to take the step 00:22:48.880 --> 00:22:49.839 in obedience of Jesus. 00:22:50.220 --> 00:22:51.140 No, the whole point 00:22:51.140 --> 00:22:52.059 is to recognize 00:22:52.059 --> 00:22:53.420 Jesus has done 00:22:53.420 --> 00:22:54.140 what he said 00:22:54.140 --> 00:22:54.900 with the Father 00:22:54.900 --> 00:22:55.799 before the foundation 00:22:55.799 --> 00:22:56.259 of the world 00:22:56.259 --> 00:22:57.440 that he would do. 00:22:57.920 --> 00:22:58.539 He has come 00:22:58.539 --> 00:22:59.460 and he's borne 00:22:59.460 --> 00:23:00.640 our sin. 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:01.900 He's experienced 00:23:01.900 --> 00:23:03.160 the forsakenness 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:04.540 that sin deserves. 00:23:04.860 --> 00:23:05.740 He's experienced 00:23:05.740 --> 00:23:06.759 the horror 00:23:06.759 --> 00:23:08.600 of hell. 00:23:10.360 --> 00:23:10.820 And that's how 00:23:10.820 --> 00:23:11.820 the Apostles' Creed 00:23:11.820 --> 00:23:12.420 puts it. 00:23:14.220 --> 00:23:14.680 That it wasn't 00:23:14.680 --> 00:23:15.259 at his death 00:23:15.259 --> 00:23:15.820 that he descended 00:23:15.820 --> 00:23:16.320 into hell 00:23:16.320 --> 00:23:17.880 but that at the cross 00:23:17.880 --> 00:23:18.640 he experienced 00:23:19.300 --> 00:23:19.640 the hellishness 00:23:20.440 --> 00:23:22.280 of sin's curse 00:23:22.280 --> 00:23:23.440 poured out 00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:23.980 in its fullness 00:23:23.980 --> 00:23:24.560 upon him. 00:23:26.600 --> 00:23:27.100 And today 00:23:27.100 --> 00:23:27.600 therefore 00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:29.599 we have no business 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:31.719 saying to ourselves 00:23:31.719 --> 00:23:32.419 that we're not 00:23:32.419 --> 00:23:33.619 yet good enough 00:23:33.619 --> 00:23:34.740 to come to the Lord's table. 00:23:35.879 --> 00:23:36.879 The Lord's table 00:23:36.879 --> 00:23:37.480 is for those 00:23:37.480 --> 00:23:38.439 who recognize 00:23:38.439 --> 00:23:39.459 Jesus 00:23:39.459 --> 00:23:40.679 is the one 00:23:40.679 --> 00:23:41.339 who was. 00:23:43.879 --> 00:23:44.859 Jesus is the one 00:23:44.859 --> 00:23:45.980 who has satisfied 00:23:45.980 --> 00:23:47.199 God's 00:23:47.199 --> 00:23:48.679 requirements 00:23:48.679 --> 00:23:49.339 that sin 00:23:49.339 --> 00:23:49.980 be punished. 00:23:51.399 --> 00:23:52.199 And he is 00:23:52.199 --> 00:23:52.980 therefore worthy. 00:23:54.980 --> 00:23:55.740 It leads us 00:23:55.740 --> 00:23:56.639 into a daily security 00:23:56.639 --> 00:23:57.339 in knowing that. 00:23:58.179 --> 00:23:58.699 It leads us 00:23:58.699 --> 00:23:59.279 into that place 00:23:59.279 --> 00:23:59.819 of daily 00:23:59.819 --> 00:24:01.000 having that comfort 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:02.019 of knowing 00:24:02.019 --> 00:24:03.119 Christ has done 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:03.899 it for me 00:24:03.899 --> 00:24:04.759 and therefore 00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:06.259 I am safe 00:24:06.259 --> 00:24:06.939 now. 00:24:09.579 --> 00:24:10.279 There's another 00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:11.079 reason as well 00:24:11.079 --> 00:24:11.219 though. 00:24:11.339 --> 00:24:12.339 There is in fact 00:24:12.339 --> 00:24:12.839 in this 00:24:12.839 --> 00:24:13.839 fully 00:24:13.839 --> 00:24:14.359 not only 00:24:14.359 --> 00:24:15.439 the eternal 00:24:15.439 --> 00:24:16.519 consequences 00:24:16.519 --> 00:24:17.679 of the eternal 00:24:17.679 --> 00:24:18.059 covenant 00:24:18.059 --> 00:24:18.779 between the Father 00:24:18.779 --> 00:24:19.319 and the Son 00:24:19.319 --> 00:24:20.359 but there is now 00:24:20.359 --> 00:24:21.480 also the consequences 00:24:21.480 --> 00:24:22.139 of the covenant 00:24:22.139 --> 00:24:23.099 with Abraham. 00:24:24.559 --> 00:24:25.519 This two-fold 00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:26.759 outworking 00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:27.559 of the purposes 00:24:27.559 --> 00:24:28.180 of God. 00:24:28.539 --> 00:24:28.920 So there's this 00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:29.859 eternal perspective 00:24:29.859 --> 00:24:30.500 to it that the 00:24:30.500 --> 00:24:31.079 Father and the Son 00:24:31.079 --> 00:24:31.599 have entered into 00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:32.299 before the foundation 00:24:32.299 --> 00:24:32.700 of the world 00:24:32.700 --> 00:24:34.019 and then after the 00:24:34.019 --> 00:24:34.839 world is created 00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:35.960 and after Adam 00:24:35.960 --> 00:24:36.579 has sinned 00:24:36.579 --> 00:24:37.839 we begin to see 00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:38.500 the outworking 00:24:38.500 --> 00:24:39.480 of God's purposes 00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:41.599 and that is 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:42.420 worked out 00:24:42.420 --> 00:24:43.980 in the promise 00:24:43.980 --> 00:24:44.900 given to Adam 00:24:44.900 --> 00:24:45.519 that there would 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:46.079 be a redeemer 00:24:46.079 --> 00:24:47.099 the seed of the woman 00:24:47.099 --> 00:24:47.680 who would bruise 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:48.440 the head of the serpent 00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:50.299 it's clear in the promises 00:24:50.299 --> 00:24:51.039 given to Abraham 00:24:51.039 --> 00:24:51.579 that he would have 00:24:51.579 --> 00:24:52.000 an offspring 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:52.880 a seed 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:54.240 the promises given 00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:54.740 to David 00:24:54.740 --> 00:24:55.420 that one day 00:24:55.420 --> 00:24:56.539 one of his descendants 00:24:56.539 --> 00:24:57.400 would sit forever 00:24:57.400 --> 00:24:58.259 upon his throne 00:24:58.259 --> 00:24:59.740 the fullness 00:24:59.740 --> 00:25:00.759 of that covenant 00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:02.079 is now also 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:03.120 being worked 00:25:03.120 --> 00:25:03.519 out 00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:04.440 in full 00:25:04.440 --> 00:25:06.620 and so Jesus 00:25:06.620 --> 00:25:09.100 goes to the cross 00:25:09.100 --> 00:25:10.059 as a sacrifice 00:25:10.059 --> 00:25:12.680 for sin. 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:16.840 The Father here 00:25:16.840 --> 00:25:17.539 is offering up 00:25:17.539 --> 00:25:18.019 his Son 00:25:18.019 --> 00:25:18.720 as a sacrifice 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:19.299 for sin. 00:25:20.680 --> 00:25:21.640 I mentioned last night 00:25:21.640 --> 00:25:22.279 that where Abraham 00:25:22.279 --> 00:25:23.799 when he was tested 00:25:23.799 --> 00:25:24.380 by God 00:25:24.380 --> 00:25:25.100 was called out 00:25:25.100 --> 00:25:26.259 upon to stop 00:25:26.259 --> 00:25:28.160 to halt 00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:29.119 the sacrifice 00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:30.140 of Isaac 00:25:30.140 --> 00:25:33.579 now 00:25:33.579 --> 00:25:34.799 no such halt 00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:35.460 is announced. 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:38.400 God the Father 00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:39.660 offers 00:25:39.660 --> 00:25:40.740 his 00:25:40.740 --> 00:25:41.619 Son. 00:25:43.859 --> 00:25:44.799 And what's actually 00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:45.400 going on here 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:45.879 is that 00:25:45.879 --> 00:25:46.900 sin 00:25:46.900 --> 00:25:48.059 is now being 00:25:48.059 --> 00:25:48.440 covered. 00:25:49.619 --> 00:25:50.160 Part of the whole 00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:51.019 framework of the 00:25:51.019 --> 00:25:51.779 dealing with sin 00:25:51.779 --> 00:25:52.539 in the Old Testament 00:25:52.539 --> 00:25:53.819 was that sin 00:25:53.819 --> 00:25:54.759 needed a covering. 00:25:55.460 --> 00:25:56.099 You find it 00:25:56.099 --> 00:25:56.879 in a very interesting 00:25:56.879 --> 00:25:57.779 way in the Garden 00:25:57.779 --> 00:25:58.139 of Eden 00:25:58.139 --> 00:25:58.799 as Adam and Eve 00:25:58.799 --> 00:25:59.399 are cast out 00:25:59.399 --> 00:25:59.859 of the Garden 00:25:59.859 --> 00:26:01.000 and God has told 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:01.959 them that the seed 00:26:01.959 --> 00:26:02.339 of the woman 00:26:02.339 --> 00:26:02.759 will one day 00:26:02.759 --> 00:26:03.240 bruise the head 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:03.759 of the serpent. 00:26:05.039 --> 00:26:05.859 And then God 00:26:05.859 --> 00:26:06.339 does something 00:26:06.339 --> 00:26:07.119 very strange. 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:09.079 God covers 00:26:09.079 --> 00:26:10.039 Adam and Eve 00:26:10.039 --> 00:26:13.159 with new garments 00:26:13.159 --> 00:26:14.519 that are made 00:26:14.519 --> 00:26:15.439 of animal skins. 00:26:16.919 --> 00:26:17.480 Animals there 00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:18.500 have been sacrificed. 00:26:18.699 --> 00:26:19.579 Blood has been shed. 00:26:19.980 --> 00:26:21.000 Bodies have been broken 00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:22.319 so that sin 00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:22.980 would be covered. 00:26:24.519 --> 00:26:25.500 And that narrative 00:26:25.500 --> 00:26:25.899 in fact 00:26:25.900 --> 00:26:26.560 continues 00:26:26.560 --> 00:26:27.360 right the way 00:26:27.360 --> 00:26:28.480 through the Old 00:26:28.480 --> 00:26:28.860 Testament 00:26:28.860 --> 00:26:29.780 through the entire 00:26:29.780 --> 00:26:31.420 sacrificial system 00:26:31.420 --> 00:26:32.660 that where sin 00:26:32.660 --> 00:26:33.259 needs to be 00:26:33.259 --> 00:26:33.980 covered over 00:26:33.980 --> 00:26:34.519 where sin 00:26:34.519 --> 00:26:35.040 needs to be 00:26:35.040 --> 00:26:35.820 dealt with 00:26:35.820 --> 00:26:37.160 there has to be 00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:38.600 brokenness of a body 00:26:38.600 --> 00:26:40.100 the shedding of blood. 00:26:41.560 --> 00:26:41.960 And so the 00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:43.100 animal sacrifices 00:26:43.100 --> 00:26:43.900 of the Old Testament 00:26:43.900 --> 00:26:44.460 are all there 00:26:44.460 --> 00:26:45.759 teaching the children 00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:46.220 of Israel 00:26:46.220 --> 00:26:47.000 confirming 00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:48.280 rather to them 00:26:48.280 --> 00:26:48.880 that this is how 00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:49.519 sin needs to be 00:26:49.519 --> 00:26:50.060 dealt with. 00:26:50.059 --> 00:26:54.720 And now Christ 00:26:54.720 --> 00:26:57.099 is made 00:26:57.099 --> 00:26:58.200 sin 00:26:58.200 --> 00:27:01.419 in the darkness 00:27:01.419 --> 00:27:02.279 of the cross 00:27:02.279 --> 00:27:03.279 leading up to this 00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:05.019 cry of dereliction 00:27:05.019 --> 00:27:06.919 and the cry 00:27:06.919 --> 00:27:08.079 of forsakenness. 00:27:09.980 --> 00:27:11.019 What's leading up 00:27:11.019 --> 00:27:11.460 to that 00:27:11.460 --> 00:27:12.419 is the reality 00:27:12.419 --> 00:27:13.200 of Christ 00:27:13.200 --> 00:27:15.279 finally and fully 00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:16.819 being made 00:27:16.819 --> 00:27:17.559 sin 00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:19.279 for his people. 00:27:21.779 --> 00:27:22.599 The debt 00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:22.799 of 00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:25.159 the debt 00:27:25.159 --> 00:27:25.599 of sin 00:27:25.599 --> 00:27:27.099 is cast 00:27:27.099 --> 00:27:27.679 against him 00:27:27.679 --> 00:27:29.939 and he carries 00:27:29.939 --> 00:27:30.279 it. 00:27:32.279 --> 00:27:33.139 And in that 00:27:33.139 --> 00:27:33.460 moment 00:27:33.460 --> 00:27:34.359 as the sacrifice 00:27:34.359 --> 00:27:35.319 he satisfies 00:27:35.319 --> 00:27:36.579 divine justice 00:27:36.579 --> 00:27:38.319 experiencing 00:27:38.319 --> 00:27:38.980 the grief 00:27:38.980 --> 00:27:39.639 and the sorrow 00:27:39.639 --> 00:27:40.899 of hell itself. 00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:43.159 Experiencing 00:27:43.159 --> 00:27:44.259 the forsakenness 00:27:44.259 --> 00:27:45.240 the abandonment 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:45.779 of God 00:27:45.779 --> 00:27:48.539 and the lostness 00:27:48.539 --> 00:27:49.920 of hell 00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:53.440 all to cancel 00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:54.559 our debt 00:27:54.559 --> 00:27:54.900 of sin. 00:27:57.019 --> 00:27:57.500 We should be 00:27:57.500 --> 00:27:57.980 clear that 00:27:57.980 --> 00:27:58.579 what's not 00:27:58.579 --> 00:27:59.259 happening here 00:27:59.259 --> 00:27:59.660 is that 00:27:59.660 --> 00:28:00.480 Christ is 00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:01.140 wrestling us 00:28:01.140 --> 00:28:01.680 away from 00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:02.200 an angry 00:28:02.200 --> 00:28:02.680 God. 00:28:05.180 --> 00:28:05.839 He's not 00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:06.319 getting in the 00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:06.720 way of a 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:07.119 God who 00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:07.839 hates people. 00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:10.960 What he's 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:11.440 doing is 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:12.200 he is acting 00:28:12.200 --> 00:28:12.960 out the love 00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:13.359 of God 00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:14.240 for sinners 00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:16.000 by dealing 00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:16.799 with the 00:28:16.799 --> 00:28:17.400 reality 00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:18.720 of divine 00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:19.720 wrath. 00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:23.839 The fullness 00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:24.960 of God's 00:28:24.960 --> 00:28:25.920 hatred 00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:26.620 of sin 00:28:26.620 --> 00:28:29.960 becomes 00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:30.539 his 00:28:30.539 --> 00:28:31.700 experience. 00:28:34.839 --> 00:28:35.539 And just 00:28:35.539 --> 00:28:36.039 as with 00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:37.000 a hyssop 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:37.539 rod 00:28:37.539 --> 00:28:38.599 or a hyssop 00:28:38.599 --> 00:28:39.039 brush 00:28:39.039 --> 00:28:39.440 the high 00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:39.759 priest 00:28:39.759 --> 00:28:39.980 on the 00:28:39.980 --> 00:28:40.200 day of 00:28:40.200 --> 00:28:40.599 atonement 00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:40.859 would have 00:28:40.859 --> 00:28:41.299 gone into 00:28:41.299 --> 00:28:42.160 the holy 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:42.700 of holies 00:28:42.700 --> 00:28:42.960 in the 00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:43.259 temple 00:28:43.259 --> 00:28:43.559 or the 00:28:43.559 --> 00:28:44.079 tabernacle 00:28:44.079 --> 00:28:44.799 and there 00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:45.519 sprinkled 00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:45.879 the blood 00:28:45.879 --> 00:28:46.139 of the 00:28:46.139 --> 00:28:46.639 sacrifice 00:28:46.639 --> 00:28:47.159 over the 00:28:47.159 --> 00:28:47.720 mercy seat, 00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:48.919 there is 00:28:48.919 --> 00:28:49.500 a barrier 00:28:49.500 --> 00:28:50.099 emerges. 00:28:52.899 --> 00:28:53.599 The Ark 00:28:53.599 --> 00:28:53.859 of the 00:28:53.859 --> 00:28:54.179 Covenant 00:28:54.179 --> 00:28:55.899 is the 00:28:55.899 --> 00:28:56.339 box that 00:28:56.339 --> 00:28:56.919 contains 00:28:56.919 --> 00:28:57.919 the law 00:28:57.919 --> 00:28:58.179 and the 00:28:58.179 --> 00:28:58.439 covenant. 00:28:58.639 --> 00:28:59.019 It contains 00:28:59.019 --> 00:28:59.480 the box 00:28:59.480 --> 00:29:00.159 of manna 00:29:00.159 --> 00:29:00.539 that was 00:29:00.539 --> 00:29:01.539 recorded from 00:29:01.539 --> 00:29:01.879 the time 00:29:01.879 --> 00:29:02.059 in the 00:29:02.059 --> 00:29:02.339 wilderness. 00:29:02.519 --> 00:29:02.819 It contains 00:29:02.819 --> 00:29:03.179 Aaron's 00:29:03.179 --> 00:29:03.539 rod that 00:29:03.539 --> 00:29:03.980 had budded. 00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:05.359 Symbols of 00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:05.699 God's 00:29:05.699 --> 00:29:06.179 people 00:29:06.179 --> 00:29:07.279 provided for 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:07.879 by God. 00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:08.880 God's 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:08.880 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:09.060 and over 00:29:09.060 --> 00:29:09.300 this 00:29:09.300 --> 00:29:09.560 there is 00:29:09.560 --> 00:29:09.700 the 00:29:09.700 --> 00:29:09.960 mercy 00:29:09.960 --> 00:29:10.220 seat 00:29:10.220 --> 00:29:10.380 where 00:29:10.380 --> 00:29:10.620 God 00:29:10.620 --> 00:29:10.900 sits 00:29:10.900 --> 00:29:11.460 enthroned. 00:29:12.620 --> 00:29:12.960 It's 00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:13.280 interesting 00:29:13.280 --> 00:29:13.520 that where 00:29:13.520 --> 00:29:13.920 the blood 00:29:13.920 --> 00:29:14.600 lands is 00:29:14.600 --> 00:29:15.320 between the 00:29:15.320 --> 00:29:15.820 presence of 00:29:15.820 --> 00:29:16.420 God seated 00:29:16.420 --> 00:29:16.820 above the 00:29:16.820 --> 00:29:17.340 mercy seat 00:29:17.340 --> 00:29:17.920 and the 00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:18.420 people of 00:29:18.420 --> 00:29:18.620 God 00:29:18.620 --> 00:29:19.160 represented 00:29:19.160 --> 00:29:19.580 within the 00:29:19.580 --> 00:29:19.840 Ark of 00:29:19.840 --> 00:29:19.940 the 00:29:19.940 --> 00:29:20.160 Covenant 00:29:20.160 --> 00:29:20.700 underneath. 00:29:20.700 --> 00:29:22.920 the 00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:23.580 shelter of 00:29:23.580 --> 00:29:23.700 the 00:29:23.700 --> 00:29:24.059 blood 00:29:24.059 --> 00:29:25.160 over the 00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:25.420 mercy 00:29:25.420 --> 00:29:25.840 seat 00:29:25.840 --> 00:29:27.259 shields 00:29:27.259 --> 00:29:27.480 the 00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:27.799 people 00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:28.160 under 00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:28.440 it 00:29:28.440 --> 00:29:29.180 from 00:29:29.180 --> 00:29:29.840 God's 00:29:29.840 --> 00:29:30.620 wrath. 00:29:31.840 --> 00:29:32.620 And that 00:29:32.620 --> 00:29:32.960 is what 00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:33.600 Jesus is 00:29:33.600 --> 00:29:34.180 enacting 00:29:34.180 --> 00:29:34.600 at the 00:29:34.600 --> 00:29:35.059 cross. 00:29:36.279 --> 00:29:36.680 He is 00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:37.539 paying that 00:29:37.539 --> 00:29:38.140 final 00:29:38.140 --> 00:29:38.860 sacrifice 00:29:38.860 --> 00:29:40.480 to satisfy 00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:40.799 the 00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:41.680 just 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:41.980 and 00:29:41.980 --> 00:29:42.519 righteous 00:29:42.519 --> 00:29:43.519 requirements 00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:44.559 of God's 00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:45.279 anger 00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:46.140 towards sin. 00:29:47.220 --> 00:29:47.720 And why 00:29:47.720 --> 00:29:47.980 is he 00:29:47.980 --> 00:29:48.400 doing it? 00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:48.720 Because 00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:49.279 God 00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:50.600 loved 00:29:50.599 --> 00:29:51.759 us. 00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:54.719 He already 00:29:54.719 --> 00:29:55.500 loved us. 00:29:58.699 --> 00:29:59.459 But his 00:29:59.459 --> 00:30:00.319 sin needs 00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:01.139 still to be 00:30:01.139 --> 00:30:01.639 dealt with. 00:30:01.719 --> 00:30:02.099 Our sin 00:30:02.099 --> 00:30:02.639 rather still 00:30:02.639 --> 00:30:03.079 needs to be 00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:03.519 dealt with. 00:30:06.379 --> 00:30:07.039 And so 00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:07.459 for us as 00:30:07.459 --> 00:30:07.759 Christians 00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:09.599 today we 00:30:09.599 --> 00:30:10.240 have this 00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:11.879 comfort 00:30:11.879 --> 00:30:15.179 that we 00:30:15.179 --> 00:30:16.179 are justified 00:30:16.179 --> 00:30:18.799 because 00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:20.419 God 00:30:20.420 --> 00:30:21.660 has kept 00:30:21.660 --> 00:30:23.660 the 00:30:23.660 --> 00:30:24.300 requirements 00:30:24.300 --> 00:30:24.759 of the 00:30:24.759 --> 00:30:25.100 covenant. 00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:30.300 He's 00:30:30.300 --> 00:30:30.720 kept the 00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:31.160 requirements. 00:30:32.940 --> 00:30:34.039 So God's 00:30:34.039 --> 00:30:34.779 punishment for 00:30:34.779 --> 00:30:35.580 sin has 00:30:35.580 --> 00:30:35.960 now been 00:30:35.960 --> 00:30:36.560 meted out. 00:30:37.800 --> 00:30:38.019 I mean the 00:30:38.019 --> 00:30:38.720 covenant has 00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:39.220 consequences. 00:30:39.220 --> 00:30:39.600 A covenant 00:30:39.600 --> 00:30:41.039 is a legal 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:41.820 framework that 00:30:41.820 --> 00:30:42.940 has consequences 00:30:42.940 --> 00:30:43.600 for breaking 00:30:43.600 --> 00:30:43.860 it. 00:30:43.859 --> 00:30:45.859 God's 00:30:45.859 --> 00:30:46.139 and the 00:30:46.139 --> 00:30:46.659 reality is 00:30:46.659 --> 00:30:46.959 we're not 00:30:46.959 --> 00:30:47.339 able to 00:30:47.339 --> 00:30:47.759 be true 00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:48.199 worshippers 00:30:48.199 --> 00:30:48.599 of God 00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:48.859 in our 00:30:48.859 --> 00:30:49.019 own 00:30:49.019 --> 00:30:49.319 strength. 00:30:49.419 --> 00:30:49.619 We could 00:30:49.619 --> 00:30:50.199 never keep 00:30:50.199 --> 00:30:50.599 the terms 00:30:50.599 --> 00:30:50.919 of this 00:30:50.919 --> 00:30:51.179 covenant. 00:30:52.299 --> 00:30:52.919 But what 00:30:52.919 --> 00:30:53.359 God has 00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:53.779 done in 00:30:53.779 --> 00:30:54.379 Christ is 00:30:54.379 --> 00:30:55.519 he has 00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:56.199 found a 00:30:56.199 --> 00:30:56.799 way for 00:30:56.799 --> 00:30:57.379 that to 00:30:57.379 --> 00:30:58.179 take place. 00:30:59.639 --> 00:31:00.039 The 00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:00.699 stipulations 00:31:00.699 --> 00:31:01.059 of the 00:31:01.059 --> 00:31:01.519 covenant are 00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:02.039 now fully 00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:02.439 met. 00:31:03.139 --> 00:31:03.899 The price 00:31:03.899 --> 00:31:04.299 is fully 00:31:04.299 --> 00:31:04.740 paid. 00:31:05.839 --> 00:31:06.179 And we 00:31:06.179 --> 00:31:06.519 as the 00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:07.079 beneficiaries 00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:08.939 of Christ's 00:31:08.939 --> 00:31:09.259 covenant 00:31:09.259 --> 00:31:10.019 keeping for 00:31:10.019 --> 00:31:11.559 us are 00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:12.319 now welcomed 00:31:12.319 --> 00:31:14.139 into the 00:31:14.139 --> 00:31:14.960 fullness of 00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:15.720 the experience 00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:16.059 of the 00:31:16.059 --> 00:31:16.399 love of 00:31:16.399 --> 00:31:16.659 God. 00:31:18.899 --> 00:31:19.339 We're 00:31:19.339 --> 00:31:19.579 welcome 00:31:19.579 --> 00:31:19.799 into 00:31:19.799 --> 00:31:20.099 heaven 00:31:20.099 --> 00:31:22.619 because of 00:31:22.619 --> 00:31:22.980 this. 00:31:24.299 --> 00:31:24.819 Because of 00:31:24.819 --> 00:31:25.039 what he 00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:25.460 has done. 00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:28.700 There is 00:31:28.700 --> 00:31:29.159 one last 00:31:29.159 --> 00:31:29.500 point I 00:31:29.500 --> 00:31:29.700 want to 00:31:29.700 --> 00:31:30.019 make as 00:31:30.019 --> 00:31:30.179 well. 00:31:30.259 --> 00:31:30.599 One last 00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:31.179 reason for 00:31:31.179 --> 00:31:31.379 this. 00:31:31.480 --> 00:31:31.619 And it 00:31:31.619 --> 00:31:31.899 is to 00:31:31.899 --> 00:31:32.579 explain the 00:31:32.579 --> 00:31:33.259 totality 00:31:33.259 --> 00:31:33.839 of this. 00:31:36.099 --> 00:31:36.539 The 00:31:36.539 --> 00:31:36.859 simple 00:31:36.859 --> 00:31:37.619 truth I 00:31:37.619 --> 00:31:38.139 suppose is 00:31:38.139 --> 00:31:38.339 this. 00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:41.079 That not 00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:41.720 everyone agrees 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:42.159 with what I've 00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:42.560 said today. 00:31:46.019 --> 00:31:46.500 Some 00:31:46.500 --> 00:31:46.980 people think 00:31:46.980 --> 00:31:47.240 that the 00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:47.580 death of 00:31:47.580 --> 00:31:49.220 Jesus is 00:31:49.220 --> 00:31:50.800 solidarity 00:31:50.800 --> 00:31:51.720 with us. 00:31:53.840 --> 00:31:54.480 That the 00:31:54.480 --> 00:31:54.820 death of 00:31:54.820 --> 00:31:55.279 Jesus is 00:31:55.279 --> 00:31:55.500 not 00:31:55.500 --> 00:31:56.440 substitutionary. 00:31:57.440 --> 00:31:57.920 It is 00:31:57.920 --> 00:31:58.800 one where 00:31:58.800 --> 00:31:59.259 he stands 00:31:59.259 --> 00:31:59.880 alongside 00:31:59.880 --> 00:32:01.160 us and 00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:01.440 enters 00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:01.900 into 00:32:01.900 --> 00:32:02.460 our 00:32:02.460 --> 00:32:03.100 experience. 00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:05.420 But that 00:32:05.420 --> 00:32:05.900 somehow 00:32:05.900 --> 00:32:08.200 something on 00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:08.580 our part 00:32:08.580 --> 00:32:08.920 is still 00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:09.180 needed. 00:32:09.180 --> 00:32:35.120 do you 00:32:35.120 --> 00:32:35.120 00:32:35.120 --> 00:32:35.120 00:32:35.120 --> 00:32:35.120 00:32:35.120 --> 00:32:35.120 00:32:35.120 --> 00:32:35.120 00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:39.839 that for most Christians, purgatory awaits. 00:32:41.419 --> 00:32:44.239 There's some extra work that you have to do to make up 00:32:44.239 --> 00:32:46.939 for the sins that you have committed 00:32:46.939 --> 00:32:49.719 that needs to be cleansed and washed away. 00:32:51.539 --> 00:32:55.319 And we need to remember that there is actually another cry 00:32:55.319 --> 00:32:58.500 after Eloi, Eloi, Labah, Samachdani. 00:33:00.099 --> 00:33:02.179 And the second cry is the one that comes 00:33:02.179 --> 00:33:04.819 after Jesus has drunk the sour wine that was offered to him. 00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:08.439 It's a moment at the cross where he's liberated, 00:33:08.599 --> 00:33:09.819 he's free to cry out. 00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:13.159 And he wants his disciples to have no doubt 00:33:13.159 --> 00:33:15.919 about what's in the loud cry that Mark mentions 00:33:15.919 --> 00:33:17.479 and which is spelled out for us more fully 00:33:17.479 --> 00:33:18.259 in the other Gospels. 00:33:19.339 --> 00:33:22.119 The loud cry that comes after Eloi, Eloi, Labah, Samachdani 00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:24.399 is not a cry that says, well, now you go on 00:33:24.399 --> 00:33:25.919 and you have to finish this off yourselves. 00:33:26.379 --> 00:33:29.819 It is a statement that says, no, it is finished. 00:33:29.819 --> 00:33:34.960 So the last point that we need to recognize 00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:38.439 is that there is a finality to the death of Jesus. 00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:43.179 There is a finality here that says, no, 00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:47.819 the full price has been paid in its totality. 00:33:47.819 --> 00:33:52.619 There is nothing more to pay. 00:33:53.779 --> 00:33:58.000 There is nothing more left for your justification. 00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:00.519 There is nothing more left for your sanctification. 00:34:01.359 --> 00:34:02.700 He has done it. 00:34:03.200 --> 00:34:04.240 It's finished. 00:34:05.919 --> 00:34:09.739 And it's all because of his experience of forsakenness. 00:34:09.739 --> 00:34:12.379 It's because he was forsaken, 00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:16.779 we can say we will never, ever, ever, ever, ever 00:34:16.779 --> 00:34:20.139 taste of any of that at all. 00:34:22.399 --> 00:34:24.500 There will be no experience, therefore, 00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:27.859 of real forsakenness in the life of the Christian. 00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:33.059 God will not abandon us 00:34:33.059 --> 00:34:37.219 even to a temporary hellish experience. 00:34:39.739 --> 00:34:40.939 He will be faithful 00:34:40.939 --> 00:34:43.179 and he will be true 00:34:43.179 --> 00:34:45.759 and he will complete 00:34:45.759 --> 00:34:48.379 in us 00:34:48.379 --> 00:34:51.099 the fullness of our salvation. 00:34:52.619 --> 00:34:53.839 And when we die, 00:34:54.479 --> 00:34:55.939 we will go to be with him. 00:34:58.099 --> 00:34:59.639 And I think that's part of why 00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:01.899 the experience of the Lord's table 00:35:01.899 --> 00:35:04.439 is one that belongs on the Sabbath day. 00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:07.719 You can't separate out 00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:09.419 the death of Jesus on the one hand 00:35:09.420 --> 00:35:11.579 from the resurrection of Jesus on another. 00:35:12.300 --> 00:35:13.300 The death of Jesus 00:35:13.300 --> 00:35:14.840 fully unlocks for believers 00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:16.539 the hope of the resurrection. 00:35:17.480 --> 00:35:18.099 And so today, 00:35:18.300 --> 00:35:19.619 that's how we will rise 00:35:19.619 --> 00:35:20.659 from the Lord's table 00:35:20.659 --> 00:35:22.059 reflecting on the fullness 00:35:22.059 --> 00:35:23.579 of the resurrection of Jesus 00:35:23.579 --> 00:35:25.079 and the hope of that life 00:35:25.079 --> 00:35:26.059 that is given to us. 00:35:26.920 --> 00:35:28.619 Because he has experienced 00:35:28.619 --> 00:35:29.760 the fullness 00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:32.480 of the forsakenness of God 00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:34.539 for you and for me. 00:35:34.539 --> 00:35:37.639 and we rest 00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:38.980 in that 00:35:38.980 --> 00:35:40.119 finished 00:35:40.119 --> 00:35:41.219 work. 00:35:42.500 --> 00:35:43.119 Let's pray. 00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:47.840 Heavenly Father, 00:35:48.420 --> 00:35:49.420 we bow before you today 00:35:49.420 --> 00:35:50.519 and we thank you for 00:35:50.519 --> 00:35:52.840 the cross. 00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:56.760 we thank you for the one 00:35:56.760 --> 00:35:57.600 who went to the cross 00:35:57.600 --> 00:35:58.260 in our place. 00:35:59.960 --> 00:36:00.740 And we thank you 00:36:00.740 --> 00:36:01.480 that he went there 00:36:01.480 --> 00:36:02.660 with all of this 00:36:02.660 --> 00:36:03.760 incredible purpose. 00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:05.120 Something, Lord, 00:36:05.220 --> 00:36:06.480 from before the foundation 00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:07.039 of the world, 00:36:07.200 --> 00:36:08.720 something from the depths 00:36:08.720 --> 00:36:11.519 of that mysterious time 00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:13.360 where the Trinity exists 00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:14.720 and agrees 00:36:14.720 --> 00:36:15.460 a purpose 00:36:15.460 --> 00:36:16.079 and a plan 00:36:16.079 --> 00:36:16.820 to be worked out 00:36:16.820 --> 00:36:17.680 in the fullness of time. 00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:18.699 We thank you for 00:36:18.699 --> 00:36:19.839 what Christ has done 00:36:19.839 --> 00:36:21.699 for that temporal 00:36:21.699 --> 00:36:22.879 expression of the covenant 00:36:22.879 --> 00:36:23.619 that the covenant 00:36:23.619 --> 00:36:25.039 made with Abraham 00:36:25.039 --> 00:36:26.559 has been worked out 00:36:26.559 --> 00:36:27.179 in its fullness. 00:36:27.379 --> 00:36:28.219 The stipulations 00:36:28.219 --> 00:36:28.899 of that covenant 00:36:28.899 --> 00:36:29.379 are met 00:36:29.379 --> 00:36:30.919 and we are now secure. 00:36:31.059 --> 00:36:31.639 And we thank you 00:36:31.639 --> 00:36:32.519 for what that means 00:36:32.519 --> 00:36:33.599 for the endless 00:36:33.599 --> 00:36:35.179 ages of eternity 00:36:35.179 --> 00:36:36.039 before us. 00:36:38.079 --> 00:36:39.619 That you have a people 00:36:39.619 --> 00:36:41.519 who will be 00:36:41.519 --> 00:36:42.519 forever yours 00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:44.980 and you will be 00:36:44.980 --> 00:36:45.440 forever 00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:46.519 our God. 00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:49.239 And so give us, Lord, 00:36:49.319 --> 00:36:50.059 that perspective 00:36:50.059 --> 00:36:50.879 on what Christ 00:36:50.879 --> 00:36:51.579 has done today 00:36:51.579 --> 00:36:53.359 that we may know him 00:36:53.359 --> 00:36:55.099 and be blessed in him. 00:36:55.719 --> 00:36:56.579 And we ask this 00:36:56.579 --> 00:36:57.460 for his namesake. 00:36:57.980 --> 00:36:58.219 Amen. 00:37:04.179 --> 00:37:05.279 We are going to come 00:37:05.279 --> 00:37:05.919 in just a moment 00:37:05.919 --> 00:37:08.500 to sit at the Lord's table. 00:37:09.179 --> 00:37:10.159 I know in our tradition 00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:10.559 it's normal 00:37:10.559 --> 00:37:11.079 that most people 00:37:11.079 --> 00:37:12.359 are already literally 00:37:12.359 --> 00:37:13.819 seated in the right places. 00:37:14.659 --> 00:37:15.539 But figuratively 00:37:15.539 --> 00:37:16.399 we would still come. 00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:18.660 As I was saying last night 00:37:18.660 --> 00:37:19.360 there is an obedience 00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:20.220 of our whole bodies 00:37:20.220 --> 00:37:21.380 in coming to the Lord's table. 00:37:22.200 --> 00:37:23.059 We use 00:37:23.059 --> 00:37:24.760 not only our lips 00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:25.460 to praise God 00:37:25.460 --> 00:37:26.780 but sometimes we use our feet 00:37:26.780 --> 00:37:27.860 and we do that 00:37:27.860 --> 00:37:28.880 by coming to the Lord's table. 00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:29.460 So some of you 00:37:29.460 --> 00:37:30.780 might still be sitting upstairs 00:37:30.780 --> 00:37:31.579 maybe want to come down 00:37:31.579 --> 00:37:32.660 and take your place 00:37:32.660 --> 00:37:33.660 at the Lord's table as well. 00:37:34.280 --> 00:37:34.900 And so in just a moment 00:37:34.900 --> 00:37:36.300 we'll sing Psalm 118 00:37:36.300 --> 00:37:37.059 as we do that. 00:37:37.980 --> 00:37:38.160 But 00:37:38.160 --> 00:37:40.220 the question then 00:37:40.220 --> 00:37:41.800 ought to always be asked 00:37:41.800 --> 00:37:43.440 who and how should we come? 00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:44.320 And the answer to that 00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:44.940 is found in 00:37:44.940 --> 00:37:46.039 in this passage 00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:46.960 that we call our warrant 00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:48.000 in how we take 00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:48.659 the Lord's supper 00:37:48.659 --> 00:37:49.940 that 00:37:49.940 --> 00:37:50.880 we read in 00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:52.400 1 Corinthians 11 00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:54.420 For I received 00:37:54.420 --> 00:37:55.179 from the Lord 00:37:55.179 --> 00:37:56.280 what I also deliver to you 00:37:56.280 --> 00:37:57.599 that the Lord Jesus 00:37:57.599 --> 00:37:58.139 on the night 00:37:58.139 --> 00:37:58.900 when he was betrayed 00:37:58.900 --> 00:37:59.519 took bread 00:37:59.519 --> 00:38:01.159 and when he had given thanks 00:38:01.159 --> 00:38:01.700 he broke it 00:38:01.700 --> 00:38:02.019 and said 00:38:02.019 --> 00:38:02.820 this is my body 00:38:02.820 --> 00:38:03.519 which is for you 00:38:03.519 --> 00:38:04.599 do this in remembrance 00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:05.460 of me. 00:38:06.300 --> 00:38:07.220 In the same way also 00:38:07.220 --> 00:38:07.880 he took the cup 00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:08.460 after supper 00:38:08.460 --> 00:38:09.159 saying this cup 00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:09.920 is the new covenant 00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:10.539 in my blood. 00:38:11.300 --> 00:38:11.639 Do this 00:38:11.639 --> 00:38:12.740 as often as you drink it 00:38:12.739 --> 00:38:14.359 in remembrance of me 00:38:14.359 --> 00:38:16.219 for as often as you eat 00:38:16.219 --> 00:38:17.159 this bread 00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:18.479 and drink the cup 00:38:18.479 --> 00:38:19.779 you proclaim 00:38:19.779 --> 00:38:21.019 the Lord's death 00:38:21.019 --> 00:38:22.739 until he comes. 00:38:23.959 --> 00:38:24.859 And so this is really 00:38:24.859 --> 00:38:25.459 telling us 00:38:25.459 --> 00:38:26.379 who the Lord's supper 00:38:26.379 --> 00:38:26.819 is for 00:38:26.819 --> 00:38:27.559 and how we should come. 00:38:29.019 --> 00:38:30.059 It is for those 00:38:30.059 --> 00:38:31.339 who would remember 00:38:31.339 --> 00:38:32.899 the sufficiency 00:38:32.899 --> 00:38:34.799 of Jesus. 00:38:36.599 --> 00:38:37.859 At no point there 00:38:37.859 --> 00:38:39.500 is the Lord's table 00:38:39.500 --> 00:38:40.839 presented as for those 00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:43.000 who are righteous. 00:38:45.700 --> 00:38:47.000 There is a concern 00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:47.740 that you would come 00:38:47.740 --> 00:38:48.519 having not acknowledged 00:38:48.519 --> 00:38:49.059 your sin 00:38:49.059 --> 00:38:50.380 but the problem 00:38:50.380 --> 00:38:51.059 with not acknowledging 00:38:51.059 --> 00:38:51.440 your sin 00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:51.940 is that you're saying 00:38:51.940 --> 00:38:52.640 I don't need Jesus 00:38:52.640 --> 00:38:53.380 to cover this. 00:38:54.600 --> 00:38:55.880 I don't need the covering 00:38:55.880 --> 00:38:56.680 of Christ 00:38:56.680 --> 00:38:58.800 for my sin. 00:38:59.900 --> 00:39:00.800 And that is a terrible 00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:01.400 way to come 00:39:01.400 --> 00:39:02.140 to the Lord's table. 00:39:02.300 --> 00:39:03.120 It's a blasphemous way 00:39:03.120 --> 00:39:03.720 in fact to come 00:39:03.720 --> 00:39:05.220 because you're denying 00:39:05.220 --> 00:39:06.120 the need for Jesus. 00:39:06.119 --> 00:39:08.839 The Lord's table 00:39:08.839 --> 00:39:09.339 is rather 00:39:09.339 --> 00:39:10.539 for those who need 00:39:10.539 --> 00:39:11.460 Christ. 00:39:12.880 --> 00:39:13.839 And those who come 00:39:13.839 --> 00:39:14.920 to sit at the Lord's table 00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:15.940 are those who come 00:39:15.940 --> 00:39:17.400 saying we need 00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:18.359 the sacrifice 00:39:18.359 --> 00:39:19.139 of Jesus. 00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:22.179 Perhaps even saying 00:39:22.179 --> 00:39:22.739 more than that 00:39:22.739 --> 00:39:23.639 saying I need 00:39:23.639 --> 00:39:26.119 the obedience 00:39:26.119 --> 00:39:26.779 of Jesus 00:39:26.779 --> 00:39:29.420 to the Father's 00:39:29.420 --> 00:39:30.199 eternal covenant. 00:39:31.739 --> 00:39:32.819 What you're really saying 00:39:32.819 --> 00:39:33.880 is I can't position 00:39:33.880 --> 00:39:34.940 myself before God 00:39:34.940 --> 00:39:35.780 and say now I'm ready 00:39:35.780 --> 00:39:36.440 to be saved. 00:39:37.940 --> 00:39:38.940 I cast myself 00:39:38.940 --> 00:39:39.940 upon the sufficiency 00:39:39.940 --> 00:39:41.079 of what the Father 00:39:41.079 --> 00:39:41.500 and the Son 00:39:41.500 --> 00:39:41.940 have agreed 00:39:41.940 --> 00:39:42.780 about my salvation 00:39:42.780 --> 00:39:44.740 from before the 00:39:44.740 --> 00:39:45.639 foundation of the world. 00:39:48.619 --> 00:39:50.019 It's a bold assertion. 00:39:51.240 --> 00:39:52.260 It's an assertion 00:39:52.260 --> 00:39:53.360 of faith and obedience 00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:55.559 that we would come 00:39:55.559 --> 00:39:56.920 because we trust 00:39:56.920 --> 00:39:57.440 in Christ 00:39:57.440 --> 00:39:59.480 and we lean 00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:00.700 wholly and fully 00:40:00.700 --> 00:40:02.480 upon him. 00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:05.199 and so let's 00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:07.199 rise to the Lord's table 00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:09.360 singing these words 00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:10.719 from Psalm 118. 00:40:10.719 --> 00:40:17.019 from verse 15. 00:40:17.719 --> 00:40:19.799 In dwellings 00:40:19.799 --> 00:40:20.539 of the righteous 00:40:20.539 --> 00:40:21.579 is heard 00:40:21.579 --> 00:40:22.079 the melody 00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:23.059 of joy and health 00:40:23.059 --> 00:40:25.019 the Lord's right hand 00:40:25.019 --> 00:40:26.119 doth ever valiantly. 00:40:26.719 --> 00:40:27.739 The right hand 00:40:27.739 --> 00:40:28.739 of the mighty Lord 00:40:28.739 --> 00:40:29.659 exalted 00:40:29.659 --> 00:40:30.279 is on high 00:40:30.279 --> 00:40:31.619 the right hand 00:40:31.619 --> 00:40:32.439 of the mighty Lord 00:40:32.439 --> 00:40:33.459 doth ever valiantly. 00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:34.959 I shall not die 00:40:34.959 --> 00:40:35.439 but live 00:40:35.439 --> 00:40:36.279 and shall the works 00:40:36.279 --> 00:40:37.159 of God discover. 00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:38.920 the Lord has made 00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:39.899 chastised sore 00:40:39.899 --> 00:40:42.420 but not to death 00:40:42.420 --> 00:40:43.619 given over. 00:40:44.699 --> 00:40:45.819 That certainty 00:40:45.819 --> 00:40:46.460 of being not given 00:40:46.460 --> 00:40:47.139 over to death 00:40:47.139 --> 00:40:47.819 arises 00:40:47.819 --> 00:40:49.379 out of 00:40:49.379 --> 00:40:50.379 the person of Jesus 00:40:50.379 --> 00:40:52.480 who was given 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:53.000 over to death 00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:53.539 for us 00:40:53.539 --> 00:40:57.119 but who rose to life. 00:40:58.159 --> 00:40:58.759 So let's 00:40:58.759 --> 00:41:00.039 sing to God's praise 00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:00.960 in these verses. 00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:01.059 Amen. 00:41:01.059 --> 00:41:01.119 Amen. 00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:10.319 Play for things 00:41:10.319 --> 00:41:14.960 of the righteous 00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:18.259 Play for things 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:18.259 00:41:18.259 --> 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of God 00:42:36.260 --> 00:42:38.260 The Lord's Son of God 00:42:38.260 --> 00:42:44.260 The Lord's Son of God 00:42:44.260 --> 00:42:50.260 The Lord's Son of God 00:42:50.260 --> 00:42:56.260 The Lord's Son of God 00:42:56.260 --> 00:43:02.260 The Lord's Son of God 00:43:02.260 --> 00:43:08.260 The Lord's Son of God 00:43:08.260 --> 00:43:08.260 00:43:08.260 --> 00:43:14.260 The Lord's Son of God 00:43:14.260 --> 00:43:16.260 The Lord's Son of God 00:43:16.260 --> 00:43:20.260 The Lord's Son of God 00:43:20.260 --> 00:43:22.260 The Lord's Son of God 00:43:22.260 --> 00:43:26.260 The Lord's Son of God 00:43:26.260 --> 00:43:28.260 The Lord's Son of God 00:43:28.260 --> 00:43:32.260 The Lord's Son of God 00:43:32.260 --> 00:43:34.260 The Lord's Son of God 00:43:34.260 --> 00:43:36.260 The Lord's Son of God 00:43:36.260 --> 00:43:38.260 The Lord's Son of God 00:43:38.260 --> 00:43:40.260 The Son of Son 00:43:40.260 --> 00:43:40.260 00:43:40.260 --> 00:43:40.260 00:43:40.260 --> 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