WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.480 You are listening to a message from Southwood Presbyterian Church in Huntsville, Alabama. 00:00:06.980 --> 00:00:09.560 Our passion is to experience and express grace. 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:10.620 Join us. 00:00:12.040 --> 00:00:19.879 Last weekend, I led somewhat of a prayer retreat for our church officers, for many of their 00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:20.480 wives. 00:00:21.699 --> 00:00:29.199 And I worked, planned schedules, designed documents, and got handouts ready. 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:37.179 And all this stuff, so much for the prayer retreat, except not really praying much about 00:00:37.179 --> 00:00:37.420 it. 00:00:38.539 --> 00:00:43.399 And the day before the retreat, that just hit me like a ton of bricks. 00:00:43.939 --> 00:00:44.859 What a failure. 00:00:45.899 --> 00:00:47.259 What a fraud. 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:53.399 I felt my weakness and my inadequacy exposed. 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:56.560 You're only just beginning to learn about prayer yourself. 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:57.879 How could you lead others? 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:03.220 See, you fall back into self-reliance so fast. 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:10.260 When my inadequacies are exposed like that, you're not even praying about a prayer retreat. 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:13.820 I see them. 00:01:13.939 --> 00:01:15.760 Sometimes others see them. 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:19.700 And I see my frailties and my weaknesses all too clearly. 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:22.000 It can be so discouraging, can't it? 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:30.920 I suspect you've had that overwhelming sense of your own weakness and inadequacy in some 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:31.739 situation. 00:01:33.060 --> 00:01:38.599 Maybe it's a particular temptation to sin that seems to get the best of you over and 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:38.960 over. 00:01:39.219 --> 00:01:42.140 You feel like a total failure when you blow it again. 00:01:42.140 --> 00:01:49.819 Maybe it's a battle with depression that you feel you're stuck in and you're always losing 00:01:49.819 --> 00:01:52.260 and you just feel so weak. 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:56.219 Maybe it's the expectations of others. 00:01:56.420 --> 00:01:58.879 At work, you've got to provide for my family. 00:01:59.099 --> 00:02:01.099 At home, I've got to be a great parent. 00:02:01.099 --> 00:02:03.359 At church, I've got to do more for Jesus. 00:02:04.059 --> 00:02:07.239 In relationships, I've got to be a better friend or a better spouse. 00:02:07.780 --> 00:02:11.939 There's too many expectations and not enough of you. 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:18.120 Your own finite inadequacy is just overwhelming. 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:20.280 Some of you have shared that with me lately. 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:23.219 As our officers were together, many of us shared that with each other. 00:02:23.300 --> 00:02:25.620 Just, I don't know how to handle it all, y'all. 00:02:26.500 --> 00:02:27.460 Not good enough. 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:31.620 We all know that feeling in some way, don't we? 00:02:32.300 --> 00:02:34.479 All of us have experienced that. 00:02:34.580 --> 00:02:41.319 We all battle, actually, day in and day out to avoid that shame, that failure, that inadequacy, 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:43.080 because we hate it, don't we? 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:50.320 Listen, as Jesus speaks with his disciples here in this passage, 00:02:50.500 --> 00:02:54.360 he says a lot of really, really good things. 00:02:54.580 --> 00:02:58.820 And he actually doesn't deny our weakness, these things we're feeling. 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:05.960 But he says two of the most helpful, hopeful things that I've ever heard. 00:03:06.220 --> 00:03:10.100 I can't wait to share them with you and with me this morning. 00:03:10.099 --> 00:03:15.280 As we read, we'll be wrapping up the time in the upper room at the Last Supper. 00:03:15.379 --> 00:03:16.960 That's where we're going to start up there. 00:03:17.219 --> 00:03:21.359 And then heading outside towards the cross, which is only 24 hours away. 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:23.000 It's Thursday night. 00:03:24.340 --> 00:03:27.139 Luke 22 at verse 31. 00:03:28.259 --> 00:03:31.280 Jesus, speaking to his disciples, says, 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:38.459 Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you that he might sift you like wheat. 00:03:38.460 --> 00:03:43.640 But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. 00:03:44.480 --> 00:03:47.159 And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers. 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:53.240 Peter said to him, Lord, I'm ready to go with you both to prison and to death. 00:03:53.740 --> 00:04:01.659 And Jesus said, I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow this day until you deny three times that you know me. 00:04:01.659 --> 00:04:08.340 And he said to them, when I sent you out with no money bag or knapsack or sandals, did you lack anything? 00:04:08.780 --> 00:04:09.960 And they said nothing. 00:04:11.219 --> 00:04:16.639 He said to them, but now let the one who has a money bag take it and likewise a knapsack. 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:19.680 And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one. 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:23.019 For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me. 00:04:23.019 --> 00:04:26.240 And he was numbered with the transgressors. 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:29.560 For what is written about me has its fulfillment. 00:04:31.339 --> 00:04:34.639 And they said, look, Lord, here are two swords. 00:04:35.299 --> 00:04:37.359 And he said to them, it is enough. 00:04:38.939 --> 00:04:42.759 He came out and went as was his custom to the Mount of Olives. 00:04:42.859 --> 00:04:44.459 And the disciples followed him. 00:04:44.459 --> 00:04:50.979 And when he came to the place, he said to them, pray that you may not enter into temptation. 00:04:52.479 --> 00:05:01.399 And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw and knelt down and prayed, saying, Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:06.659 Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done. 00:05:07.899 --> 00:05:11.259 And there appeared to him an angel from heaven strengthening him. 00:05:11.259 --> 00:05:19.839 And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground. 00:05:21.719 --> 00:05:28.480 And when he rose from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping for sorrow. 00:05:29.599 --> 00:05:32.279 And he said to them, why are you sleeping? 00:05:32.939 --> 00:05:37.680 Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation. 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:39.920 This is God's word. 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:42.220 Let's ask his help as we look at it together. 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:48.920 Father, thank you for this, your word. 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:56.000 Thank you for how it tells us of these special, sacred moments. 00:05:57.900 --> 00:06:01.600 Thank you for the hope that it gives us in Jesus. 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:03.480 May we see him. 00:06:04.580 --> 00:06:05.580 May we know him. 00:06:05.579 --> 00:06:08.699 May we experience his love for us. 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:11.319 That we might love him also. 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:12.899 We ask in his name. 00:06:13.899 --> 00:06:14.240 Amen. 00:06:18.479 --> 00:06:19.939 Jesus prays. 00:06:21.459 --> 00:06:26.519 We've seen over and over that this happens in Luke's biography of Jesus. 00:06:26.719 --> 00:06:26.819 Right? 00:06:26.819 --> 00:06:28.639 Jesus prays all the time. 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:31.560 He prays before significant events. 00:06:31.939 --> 00:06:34.360 He withdraws by himself to pray. 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:37.099 He teaches his disciples how to pray. 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:43.079 And here, as he nears the cross, Jesus prays again. 00:06:43.899 --> 00:06:47.920 And these prayers are such good news. 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:50.960 Because he prays for us. 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:58.140 We see here first that Jesus prays for the sake of his struggling followers. 00:06:58.680 --> 00:06:59.860 Verse 32. 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:04.580 I have prayed for you. 00:07:04.579 --> 00:07:08.419 Those must have been good words to hear, don't you think? 00:07:09.180 --> 00:07:10.599 Jesus turns to Peter. 00:07:10.699 --> 00:07:13.000 Maybe they're getting up from the table. 00:07:13.159 --> 00:07:14.180 I don't know. 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:20.360 And he says to him personally, Peter, I've prayed for you. 00:07:20.899 --> 00:07:23.099 There's no one I would rather have praying for me, right? 00:07:25.039 --> 00:07:26.779 Why does Jesus say that? 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:31.319 Why would Jesus need to pray for us? 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:38.819 Well, he also says here that Satan is actively attacking us. 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:43.300 He's speaking in verse 32 specifically to Peter. 00:07:43.459 --> 00:07:46.500 But he's addressing all of his disciples here. 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:51.639 There at the table, he says, Satan has demanded to have y'all. 00:07:52.259 --> 00:07:53.319 To sift y'all. 00:07:54.300 --> 00:07:54.819 It's plural. 00:07:54.980 --> 00:07:56.560 Jesus doesn't actually say y'all. 00:07:57.039 --> 00:07:58.699 But that's what it means. 00:07:58.699 --> 00:08:00.199 He says, all of you. 00:08:01.659 --> 00:08:07.000 So Jesus' point is not that he prays for Peter exclusively and nobody else. 00:08:07.579 --> 00:08:10.259 But that he prays for Peter personally. 00:08:11.500 --> 00:08:16.199 All of his followers are under the attack of Satan, we're told. 00:08:16.500 --> 00:08:19.620 But Jesus prays for each of them by name. 00:08:19.620 --> 00:08:24.019 Maybe you hear that this morning. 00:08:24.100 --> 00:08:26.639 You're tempted to think, no big deal. 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:28.500 I'm pretty much okay. 00:08:28.939 --> 00:08:30.240 Don't bother, Jesus. 00:08:32.620 --> 00:08:33.799 Peter gets that. 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:35.200 Verse 33. 00:08:36.060 --> 00:08:37.639 Jesus says, I'm praying for you. 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:40.659 Peter says, Lord, don't worry about me. 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:45.240 I'm ready to go with you both to prison and to death. 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:53.460 And Jesus said, I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow this day until you deny three times that you know me. 00:08:55.399 --> 00:09:02.860 Jesus is reminding Peter, another reason he prays for us, that our flesh is weaker than we realize. 00:09:03.820 --> 00:09:10.240 In fact, it may even be that place you think you'd never fall where Satan would most like to attack. 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:15.399 And so Jesus prays for us even when we don't know we need it. 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:23.000 These days we think the only good news for someone struggling is to hear that they're not weak. 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:25.220 You know, tell them they're good, that they can handle it. 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:29.799 Jesus says, on your own, you're even weaker than you know. 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:36.139 But I have prayed for you. 00:09:36.139 --> 00:09:40.559 You didn't even have to know the right thing to pray, Peter. 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:42.439 I'm looking out for you. 00:09:42.500 --> 00:09:43.100 I've got you. 00:09:45.699 --> 00:09:50.519 Finally, Jesus prays for us because the world is against us. 00:09:51.500 --> 00:09:55.240 Jesus has just spent a long time, a couple of weeks ago, for us, 00:09:55.340 --> 00:09:59.799 telling them that they're going to face significant opposition, persecution. 00:09:59.799 --> 00:10:05.539 And now he tells them that time, it's happening immediately. 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:08.259 It's time for this to be fulfilled. 00:10:08.379 --> 00:10:10.620 What is written about me has fulfillment now. 00:10:10.779 --> 00:10:13.279 And if they attack me, they'll attack you. 00:10:13.719 --> 00:10:18.559 So no longer like earlier when I sent you out, can you count on others caring for you as you go? 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:20.559 Better take some stuff with you. 00:10:21.699 --> 00:10:24.279 And the disciples say, oh, I get it. 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:25.879 Hey, we found two swords. 00:10:25.959 --> 00:10:26.779 Aren't you proud? 00:10:26.779 --> 00:10:26.879 It's loud. 00:10:28.860 --> 00:10:29.899 It's laughable. 00:10:30.059 --> 00:10:31.839 Think of what they're going to face. 00:10:32.860 --> 00:10:33.639 Two swords. 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:39.919 Jesus says, my translation, you'll never get it, will you? 00:10:40.959 --> 00:10:43.899 Enough means enough with this conversation. 00:10:46.059 --> 00:10:52.459 I will pray for you as you face opposition that you don't anticipate or understand. 00:10:53.259 --> 00:10:54.799 I'll pray for you. 00:10:56.779 --> 00:10:57.299 There they are. 00:10:57.299 --> 00:11:05.319 The world, the flesh, and the devil aligned against us, working in concert to exploit our 00:11:05.319 --> 00:11:14.679 weaknesses, to tempt our frail wills, to overwhelm our finite capacities more than we could know. 00:11:15.299 --> 00:11:19.480 And you know, if you've been there, you know when you're struggling, it's hard to identify 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:21.299 which one of those is coming at you, isn't it? 00:11:21.620 --> 00:11:23.199 Is it the world, the flesh, the devil? 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:23.920 I don't know. 00:11:23.920 --> 00:11:26.320 It's just so much coming on. 00:11:26.420 --> 00:11:28.920 We just sense it's all too much. 00:11:30.980 --> 00:11:32.680 Lies become easy to believe. 00:11:33.800 --> 00:11:36.980 We do things again that we promised and thought we never would. 00:11:37.379 --> 00:11:40.340 We begin to feel alone and helpless. 00:11:41.520 --> 00:11:42.920 You know that feeling. 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:46.139 Listen. 00:11:46.139 --> 00:11:46.219 Listen. 00:11:47.579 --> 00:11:52.199 Jesus says, I have prayed for you. 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:55.179 Right there. 00:11:56.059 --> 00:11:57.279 In your weakness. 00:11:57.599 --> 00:11:58.620 Right where you feel that. 00:11:58.699 --> 00:12:00.939 Jesus says, I've prayed for you. 00:12:00.940 --> 00:12:05.420 Maybe you think, well, thanks. 00:12:06.220 --> 00:12:07.600 I'm not really helping. 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:10.760 I'm still drowning here, Jesus. 00:12:12.660 --> 00:12:14.040 I thought you said you were praying. 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:18.020 Listen to what he prays for. 00:12:18.100 --> 00:12:19.960 Let's finish verse 32. 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:25.260 I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. 00:12:25.259 --> 00:12:29.460 And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers. 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:34.299 This is consistent with the way Jesus and Paul pray for believers throughout the Bible. 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:40.100 Praying not usually about their circumstances getting changed. 00:12:40.899 --> 00:12:46.679 It's usually for their hearts in the midst of what they're already facing. 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:51.559 That your faith may not fail. 00:12:51.700 --> 00:12:53.539 That's what Jesus is praying. 00:12:53.539 --> 00:13:02.379 In fact, notice Jesus tells Peter in so many words that it's about to look and feel as though his faith has failed. 00:13:03.199 --> 00:13:06.719 Tonight you will deny me three times. 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:10.599 That doesn't seem encouraging. 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.559 But I thought you prayed for me, Jesus. 00:13:14.620 --> 00:13:17.639 I thought you promised to be with me, Jesus. 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:23.720 I thought you would help me out of the tight spot so that I would succeed, Jesus. 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:28.100 And Jesus says, I am helping you. 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:31.419 I am with you. 00:13:32.100 --> 00:13:37.480 I am praying for you about the most important thing. 00:13:37.819 --> 00:13:43.159 That you would trust me when everything falls apart around you. 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:48.919 That you would depend on my strength when you are too weak because you will be. 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:53.740 Jesus prays not that Peter would avoid the trial. 00:13:54.219 --> 00:13:56.240 He actually tells him it's coming. 00:13:57.120 --> 00:14:00.559 But that he would have faith in the midst of it. 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:08.639 And secondly, he prays that his repentance would strengthen others. 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:13.860 When you have turned again, strengthen your brothers. 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:20.240 Isn't it encouraging that Jesus is more concerned with our hearts than he is with our performance? 00:14:21.819 --> 00:14:24.000 Do you hear that in what he's saying to Peter? 00:14:24.340 --> 00:14:26.340 When you have turned again. 00:14:26.439 --> 00:14:28.779 It's that picture of repentance. 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:30.639 You will stumble. 00:14:31.299 --> 00:14:32.580 You will wander. 00:14:32.580 --> 00:14:36.820 But when you turn from your own way back to me. 00:14:37.180 --> 00:14:41.420 To see me as the only strong and sufficient one. 00:14:41.700 --> 00:14:45.520 I pray you will help others see that same truth. 00:14:46.940 --> 00:14:49.080 Boy, do those prayers get answered in Peter's life. 00:14:49.740 --> 00:14:51.840 In really powerful ways. 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:56.440 But do you see the beauty of Jesus' focus as he prays for you? 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:00.879 It's not primarily on our performance, is it? 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:03.399 Jesus doesn't rejoice in our sin. 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:06.200 He's not excited about Peter denying him. 00:15:06.779 --> 00:15:07.080 No. 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:16.840 But our hearts turning to him in faith and repentance is much more significant to him. 00:15:17.080 --> 00:15:20.980 It's what he prays for because he knows we are weak. 00:15:22.220 --> 00:15:23.759 You need to hear this. 00:15:24.179 --> 00:15:26.019 Because you know that weakness. 00:15:26.539 --> 00:15:28.620 You know where you feel weak. 00:15:28.620 --> 00:15:33.600 Jesus' vision for you is beyond your failures. 00:15:35.139 --> 00:15:36.679 Because he wants you. 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:41.320 And he wants others pointed not to your own strength and performance. 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:43.360 But to him. 00:15:43.860 --> 00:15:45.560 Jesus' vision for you. 00:15:45.659 --> 00:15:48.279 What he sees for you is beyond your failures. 00:15:48.460 --> 00:15:49.779 Past, present, future. 00:15:51.139 --> 00:15:54.879 Where is your weakness or sin that you've repented of? 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.299 Where is it an opportunity to strengthen others? 00:15:59.439 --> 00:16:06.559 Where have you seen your inadequacy and Jesus' sufficiency that someone else needs to hear about? 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:11.700 Is it in things you chased after in your younger years? 00:16:11.700 --> 00:16:22.280 You think there's a high school or college student in this room who needs to hear you talk about the idols of your youth? 00:16:23.060 --> 00:16:27.860 How Jesus has shown himself as more worthy and more valuable than those things you chased after? 00:16:28.640 --> 00:16:29.180 There is. 00:16:29.179 --> 00:16:34.419 Maybe it's in betrayal or divorce. 00:16:36.139 --> 00:16:41.079 I think there's someone else who knows the shame of a broken relationship. 00:16:41.599 --> 00:16:45.159 That needs to know how Jesus has been enough for you. 00:16:45.599 --> 00:16:49.299 And even enabled you to forgive where you thought you never would. 00:16:49.299 --> 00:16:53.579 Maybe it's in battling addiction. 00:16:54.379 --> 00:17:01.419 You think there's a brother or sister who needs the reminder that Jesus meets you there when you have blown it again? 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:04.039 That he doesn't give up on you? 00:17:04.099 --> 00:17:04.899 That there's hope? 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:14.339 See, it's often our weaknesses and our failures rather than our strengths and successes that God uses to point others to him. 00:17:14.399 --> 00:17:14.599 Right? 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:16.839 Because he's the one who's strong. 00:17:17.159 --> 00:17:22.899 And so we comfort others as we ourselves have been comforted by God. 00:17:23.379 --> 00:17:24.779 That's how it works. 00:17:25.199 --> 00:17:31.159 And so Jesus prays this will happen in the lives of his brothers and sisters for whom he will die. 00:17:32.879 --> 00:17:38.199 He prays for us in our battle against the world, the flesh, and the devil. 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:45.700 He prays for you in your depression that you will not lose your faith. 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:51.420 That you will offer light to others that today you can't see for yourself. 00:17:52.080 --> 00:17:54.059 Jesus prays for you. 00:17:55.660 --> 00:17:58.620 He prays for you in your inadequacy. 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:03.279 That you will realize that he is all you need. 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:10.440 And that you will help others cling to him in a way that today you can't even do yourself. 00:18:11.819 --> 00:18:14.220 Jesus is our great high priest. 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:21.879 Standing before God's throne today, praying for you. 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:29.039 Hebrews tells us he always lives to make intercession for us. 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:32.000 That's good news. 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:35.559 How does that encourage you? 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:43.099 In what way or in what situation does that truth encourage your heart? 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:44.519 I actually want you to take a minute. 00:18:45.139 --> 00:18:46.019 Write something down. 00:18:47.879 --> 00:18:48.579 Where is it? 00:18:48.639 --> 00:18:49.539 Where do you feel that? 00:18:49.619 --> 00:18:52.579 Where do you need to know Jesus is praying for you? 00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:56.599 I'm not going to look, so you have to write something. 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:56.639 I'm not going to look. 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:06.720 I'm not going to look. 00:19:08.339 --> 00:19:10.299 Jesus is praying for you. 00:19:10.779 --> 00:19:12.379 It's such good news. 00:19:13.500 --> 00:19:18.359 We need to remember it right there in the place that God's putting on your heart right now. 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:20.460 It's such good news. 00:19:20.460 --> 00:19:26.799 But it actually gets even better than that in this passage. 00:19:27.539 --> 00:19:35.440 See, the hope of the gospel is that Jesus prays for us. 00:19:36.140 --> 00:19:37.240 I know it sounds the same. 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:38.519 Emphasis different. 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:48.619 That Jesus prays and lives and suffers and dies for me in my place. 00:19:50.200 --> 00:19:52.680 Substitution is what's being talked about here. 00:19:52.740 --> 00:19:57.019 Jesus tells us about this substitution in verse 37. 00:19:57.019 --> 00:20:00.180 I tell you, this scripture must be fulfilled in me. 00:20:00.379 --> 00:20:03.660 And he was numbered with the transgressors. 00:20:04.299 --> 00:20:06.779 For what is written about me has its fulfillment. 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:09.279 It's happening, Jesus says. 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:20.480 He's saying he's about to face the rejection, the suffering, the death that lawbreakers, sinners have earned. 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:22.759 Jesus is about to walk into that. 00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:27.079 He quotes from Isaiah 53. 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:31.940 Numbered with the transgressors. 00:20:32.900 --> 00:20:37.440 As he's talking about that, that means he bore the sin of many. 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:41.640 Made intercession for the transgressors. 00:20:42.500 --> 00:20:48.660 Earlier in that chapter that we love, it speaks of Jesus as bearing our griefs. 00:20:48.660 --> 00:20:52.240 And carrying our sorrows. 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:58.680 The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 00:20:58.680 --> 00:21:05.259 And so Jesus is carrying the weight of that as he walks toward the cross. 00:21:05.400 --> 00:21:08.080 That certainly happens on the cross. 00:21:08.620 --> 00:21:13.320 Where Galatians tells us Jesus became a curse for us. 00:21:13.319 --> 00:21:15.259 But it starts in his life. 00:21:15.659 --> 00:21:19.139 That he lives perfectly on our behalf. 00:21:19.619 --> 00:21:27.480 So that in my failure, my great hope is not merely that Jesus prays for me so maybe I'll get it right next time. 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:29.399 I've got another shot at it. 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:32.500 That's actually not my greatest hope. 00:21:32.500 --> 00:21:38.400 But truly, it's that Jesus succeeds where I failed. 00:21:38.700 --> 00:21:43.599 So God credits his success, his righteousness to me. 00:21:43.880 --> 00:21:45.480 He gets my sin. 00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:48.140 I get his righteousness. 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:50.339 His perfect record. 00:21:50.500 --> 00:21:53.319 2 Corinthians 5 verse 21. 00:21:53.319 --> 00:22:00.000 For our sake, God made him to be sin who knew no sin. 00:22:00.099 --> 00:22:01.279 That's Jesus, right? 00:22:01.419 --> 00:22:04.359 Jesus is numbered with the transgressors. 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:06.220 He becomes sin. 00:22:06.619 --> 00:22:13.519 So that in him, we might become the righteousness of God. 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:20.700 Jesus succeeds where I failed in my place. 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:22.519 That's the gospel. 00:22:22.519 --> 00:22:25.000 That's our true hope. 00:22:25.299 --> 00:22:27.539 Not that you're stronger than you think. 00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:29.579 That you can do it next time. 00:22:29.940 --> 00:22:34.559 But Jesus is stronger than you are for you. 00:22:35.339 --> 00:22:38.119 And you're safe in him. 00:22:38.700 --> 00:22:40.259 That's good news. 00:22:41.059 --> 00:22:46.440 Watch how Luke makes this painfully but gloriously clear. 00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:51.819 Because what happens as they leave the upper room is Jesus starts to be alone. 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:53.500 More and more. 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:56.460 Just when they're leaving here in verse 39. 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:58.139 He walks out. 00:22:58.440 --> 00:23:01.279 Jesus came out and went as was his custom. 00:23:01.379 --> 00:23:02.000 Is he alone? 00:23:02.139 --> 00:23:02.379 What's that? 00:23:02.759 --> 00:23:04.440 And the disciples followed him. 00:23:04.639 --> 00:23:05.660 Not they all walked together. 00:23:05.779 --> 00:23:07.940 But Jesus went and they're following. 00:23:08.259 --> 00:23:10.420 He's beginning his isolation. 00:23:11.099 --> 00:23:12.720 They get there to the garden. 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:15.900 And they stop and he withdraws from them. 00:23:16.339 --> 00:23:20.120 And kneels to pray alone. 00:23:20.779 --> 00:23:21.480 Doesn't he? 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:24.059 And then he returns. 00:23:25.100 --> 00:23:27.880 Who's been praying during this whole time in the garden? 00:23:28.339 --> 00:23:28.980 Verse 45. 00:23:30.100 --> 00:23:31.000 Who's been praying? 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:33.960 Only Jesus. 00:23:35.440 --> 00:23:37.039 A lot of people are supposed to be praying. 00:23:38.460 --> 00:23:42.259 The disciples at this pivotal emotional moment. 00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:44.460 Having just been told to pray are doing what? 00:23:46.140 --> 00:23:46.660 Sleeping. 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:52.059 Jesus alone prays. 00:23:52.059 --> 00:23:55.200 And it's important for you to see this. 00:23:55.359 --> 00:23:57.599 Because despite what some say. 00:23:57.960 --> 00:24:02.639 It's not your job to go up on Gethsemane. 00:24:03.460 --> 00:24:07.700 And bear the weight of sin like this. 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:13.159 Jesus experiences this agony in the place of sinners. 00:24:13.160 --> 00:24:14.920 So those who follow him. 00:24:15.180 --> 00:24:16.240 Who trust him. 00:24:16.540 --> 00:24:19.180 Never have to experience it like this. 00:24:19.720 --> 00:24:21.940 And it is intense agony. 00:24:22.100 --> 00:24:22.519 Isn't it? 00:24:23.960 --> 00:24:25.300 As Jesus prays. 00:24:25.340 --> 00:24:26.640 He's beginning to consider. 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:27.880 And endure. 00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:31.019 What being a sinner really means. 00:24:31.380 --> 00:24:34.940 Having to drink the cup of God's wrath. 00:24:35.279 --> 00:24:37.200 Having to endure separation. 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:38.840 From God himself. 00:24:39.400 --> 00:24:39.759 And y'all. 00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:41.560 Jesus knew what was coming. 00:24:41.559 --> 00:24:44.639 Unlike any sinner who has ever lived. 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:45.619 And there have been a lot of them. 00:24:46.579 --> 00:24:48.419 Jesus knows what's coming doesn't he? 00:24:49.579 --> 00:24:53.359 He understood the sweetness of fellowship with his father. 00:24:54.480 --> 00:24:57.819 He knew the righteous indignation towards sin. 00:24:57.940 --> 00:25:00.119 That God felt with his whole being. 00:25:00.659 --> 00:25:04.200 Jesus was aware that being numbered with transgressors. 00:25:04.339 --> 00:25:06.399 Meant being forsaken by God. 00:25:08.879 --> 00:25:10.839 And as he considers that. 00:25:10.839 --> 00:25:14.119 The angst of that thought. 00:25:14.119 --> 00:25:18.339 Made him sweat great drops of blood. 00:25:18.859 --> 00:25:19.819 As he prayed. 00:25:20.119 --> 00:25:24.799 It's so intense that God even sends an angel from heaven to minister to him. 00:25:25.059 --> 00:25:26.119 And that makes it all okay. 00:25:26.199 --> 00:25:27.179 So it's not hard anymore. 00:25:27.180 --> 00:25:30.000 The angel comes. 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:31.000 And then. 00:25:31.460 --> 00:25:32.740 Having been strengthened. 00:25:33.180 --> 00:25:34.060 There it is again. 00:25:34.140 --> 00:25:35.900 The cup is so intense. 00:25:36.360 --> 00:25:37.000 The agony. 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:39.500 The breaking in Jesus' spirit. 00:25:39.960 --> 00:25:42.680 So painful beyond what we could know. 00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:45.100 This unimaginable sorrow. 00:25:45.099 --> 00:25:53.079 It's one of those times I'm reminded of the truth of there being one way of salvation. 00:25:53.779 --> 00:25:54.240 Friends. 00:25:54.379 --> 00:25:56.740 If there was another way. 00:25:56.879 --> 00:25:59.099 God the father would have taken it. 00:25:59.099 --> 00:26:04.559 His son is in agony to the point of death. 00:26:04.879 --> 00:26:09.919 And to suggest that Jesus endured this trauma when it was unnecessary. 00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:14.620 And there are many other ways that you can come back into a right relationship with God. 00:26:14.740 --> 00:26:19.220 Is to distort the entire gospel of God's word from cover to cover. 00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:20.600 It's about a substitute. 00:26:21.259 --> 00:26:27.259 Who comes and lives and suffers and dies for us. 00:26:27.259 --> 00:26:28.460 Hallelujah. 00:26:29.500 --> 00:26:30.480 What a savior. 00:26:31.220 --> 00:26:32.859 He's there for you. 00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:33.700 Do you see that? 00:26:35.700 --> 00:26:37.299 You see that's your spot? 00:26:38.119 --> 00:26:39.140 It was. 00:26:39.720 --> 00:26:40.720 It would have been. 00:26:40.900 --> 00:26:41.440 Could have been. 00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:42.700 Should have been. 00:26:42.879 --> 00:26:43.819 Your spot. 00:26:44.039 --> 00:26:46.420 And he's there for you. 00:26:46.819 --> 00:26:48.119 Do your neighbors know that? 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:55.200 There's good news for them. 00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:57.799 It's good news for you. 00:26:58.420 --> 00:26:59.680 And then you get to share it. 00:27:00.140 --> 00:27:04.819 See it's not only that the penalty for our sins needed to be paid. 00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:05.720 And it did. 00:27:06.120 --> 00:27:10.279 But on top of that we were created to live in relationship with God. 00:27:10.360 --> 00:27:10.559 Right? 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:13.220 This is the purpose for which he creates us. 00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:13.860 He loves us. 00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:15.059 He wants us to know him. 00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:17.220 Submitting to him always. 00:27:17.980 --> 00:27:18.860 Trusting him. 00:27:19.500 --> 00:27:20.220 Obeying him. 00:27:20.220 --> 00:27:22.059 This is what we're created for. 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:24.720 And Jesus here does that for us. 00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:26.700 In our place. 00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:28.180 So beautifully. 00:27:29.740 --> 00:27:31.240 Look at that famous prayer. 00:27:32.100 --> 00:27:32.819 Verse 42. 00:27:34.759 --> 00:27:35.080 Father. 00:27:35.880 --> 00:27:37.340 If you're willing. 00:27:38.140 --> 00:27:39.920 Remove this cup from me. 00:27:41.980 --> 00:27:42.660 Nevertheless. 00:27:43.480 --> 00:27:44.580 Not my will. 00:27:45.740 --> 00:27:46.880 But yours. 00:27:47.559 --> 00:27:47.960 Be done. 00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:49.960 Jesus says. 00:27:49.960 --> 00:27:50.400 Father. 00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:51.819 You are God. 00:27:52.059 --> 00:27:53.220 No matter what. 00:27:53.860 --> 00:27:54.960 Not the way we pray. 00:27:55.180 --> 00:27:56.900 If you get me out of this mess. 00:27:57.100 --> 00:27:58.960 I promise I'll believe in you. 00:27:59.100 --> 00:28:00.000 I'll go to church. 00:28:00.140 --> 00:28:01.019 I'll do whatever you. 00:28:01.140 --> 00:28:01.880 You want me to do. 00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:03.539 If you just come through for me. 00:28:03.600 --> 00:28:04.640 I'll never do it again. 00:28:05.940 --> 00:28:06.380 No. 00:28:06.460 --> 00:28:06.660 It's. 00:28:06.860 --> 00:28:07.259 It's. 00:28:07.500 --> 00:28:07.860 Nevertheless. 00:28:08.940 --> 00:28:10.200 Whatever else may come. 00:28:10.299 --> 00:28:10.720 You are. 00:28:10.900 --> 00:28:11.480 My father. 00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:12.140 My God. 00:28:12.140 --> 00:28:12.220 God. 00:28:13.020 --> 00:28:15.140 Jesus trusts God's goodness. 00:28:15.840 --> 00:28:17.500 Even when something else. 00:28:18.300 --> 00:28:19.040 Seems better. 00:28:19.940 --> 00:28:20.360 To him. 00:28:21.600 --> 00:28:21.900 Listen. 00:28:22.020 --> 00:28:23.259 Please don't be confused here. 00:28:23.840 --> 00:28:24.120 Jesus. 00:28:24.640 --> 00:28:25.400 Is pleading. 00:28:25.900 --> 00:28:26.780 For another way. 00:28:27.780 --> 00:28:29.060 For it to go differently. 00:28:30.140 --> 00:28:32.360 The overwhelming sense. 00:28:32.360 --> 00:28:33.580 Of what he's facing. 00:28:33.840 --> 00:28:35.120 What he's about to go into. 00:28:35.280 --> 00:28:36.140 As a sin bearer. 00:28:36.140 --> 00:28:36.780 Bearer. 00:28:38.580 --> 00:28:40.100 Any other possibility. 00:28:40.300 --> 00:28:40.900 To avoid. 00:28:41.320 --> 00:28:42.160 This cup. 00:28:42.600 --> 00:28:43.200 But even. 00:28:43.520 --> 00:28:44.400 In pain. 00:28:45.340 --> 00:28:46.320 And grief. 00:28:46.840 --> 00:28:47.940 And darkness. 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:49.660 That is closing in. 00:28:49.980 --> 00:28:51.000 He clings. 00:28:51.140 --> 00:28:51.920 To God. 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:52.620 Being. 00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:53.520 Good. 00:28:54.940 --> 00:28:56.820 We're so bad at this. 00:28:57.160 --> 00:28:58.660 All the way back to the garden. 00:28:59.280 --> 00:29:00.380 The first garden. 00:29:00.380 --> 00:29:01.880 Where Adam and Eve are there. 00:29:02.040 --> 00:29:02.060 And. 00:29:02.660 --> 00:29:03.680 They wondered. 00:29:03.780 --> 00:29:04.980 Is God really good? 00:29:04.980 --> 00:29:06.640 We've been wondering since then. 00:29:06.700 --> 00:29:07.180 Haven't we? 00:29:07.539 --> 00:29:08.759 Is he really good? 00:29:09.099 --> 00:29:09.259 Is. 00:29:09.480 --> 00:29:10.900 Is he really looking out. 00:29:11.019 --> 00:29:12.299 For my best interest? 00:29:12.819 --> 00:29:13.839 And time and again. 00:29:13.980 --> 00:29:15.360 We've decided we need to. 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:16.059 For ourselves. 00:29:16.259 --> 00:29:17.700 We've chosen our own way. 00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:20.140 We've sought to protect ourselves. 00:29:20.240 --> 00:29:21.099 We've tried to. 00:29:21.099 --> 00:29:22.420 Fulfill ourselves. 00:29:22.700 --> 00:29:24.319 And Jesus trusts. 00:29:24.799 --> 00:29:25.740 God's goodness. 00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:26.680 For. 00:29:27.140 --> 00:29:27.620 Us. 00:29:29.819 --> 00:29:30.460 In fact. 00:29:30.539 --> 00:29:31.360 All the way to the point. 00:29:31.500 --> 00:29:32.099 Of being willing. 00:29:32.539 --> 00:29:33.120 To suffer. 00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:35.139 Intensely. 00:29:35.799 --> 00:29:36.319 Immense. 00:29:36.799 --> 00:29:37.299 Suffering. 00:29:37.419 --> 00:29:38.179 We said earlier. 00:29:38.299 --> 00:29:38.599 Jesus. 00:29:39.359 --> 00:29:40.419 Understands the trial. 00:29:40.519 --> 00:29:41.099 Before him. 00:29:41.199 --> 00:29:41.739 More deeply. 00:29:41.879 --> 00:29:43.059 Than any other person. 00:29:43.579 --> 00:29:44.419 Ever has. 00:29:45.699 --> 00:29:46.239 Suffering. 00:29:46.459 --> 00:29:47.219 That you and I. 00:29:47.319 --> 00:29:47.819 Can't even. 00:29:48.279 --> 00:29:49.159 Comprehend. 00:29:49.779 --> 00:29:50.719 And he says what? 00:29:51.779 --> 00:29:52.239 Nevertheless. 00:29:53.239 --> 00:29:53.679 Not. 00:29:54.119 --> 00:29:54.699 My will. 00:29:55.699 --> 00:29:56.459 But yours. 00:29:56.579 --> 00:29:56.959 Be done. 00:29:56.960 --> 00:29:59.720 And I. 00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:00.400 Say. 00:30:00.539 --> 00:30:00.700 Or. 00:30:00.700 --> 00:30:01.240 Think. 00:30:01.740 --> 00:30:02.200 God. 00:30:02.259 --> 00:30:02.539 I'll. 00:30:02.600 --> 00:30:03.120 Follow you. 00:30:03.180 --> 00:30:04.319 As long as it doesn't hurt. 00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:04.960 Too much. 00:30:05.960 --> 00:30:06.920 As long as there's. 00:30:07.900 --> 00:30:08.220 Nothing. 00:30:08.500 --> 00:30:08.940 Uncomfortable. 00:30:09.380 --> 00:30:10.600 I'll have to go through. 00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:12.039 I don't want it to cost me. 00:30:12.100 --> 00:30:12.759 My comfort. 00:30:13.140 --> 00:30:13.720 And Jesus. 00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:15.120 Suffers. 00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:16.360 For. 00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:17.079 Me. 00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:19.819 In fact. 00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:21.000 God sends the angel. 00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:21.340 Here. 00:30:21.500 --> 00:30:22.380 Strengthens Jesus. 00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:23.720 In the trial. 00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:26.460 Rather than removing him from it. 00:30:26.740 --> 00:30:27.220 Doesn't he? 00:30:27.259 --> 00:30:28.220 Just like he promises. 00:30:28.799 --> 00:30:29.839 To do for us. 00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:34.160 Jesus is perfect. 00:30:34.660 --> 00:30:35.100 Submission. 00:30:35.720 --> 00:30:36.420 To his father. 00:30:36.539 --> 00:30:37.680 And his father's will. 00:30:38.420 --> 00:30:39.440 Is the submission. 00:30:39.880 --> 00:30:40.240 I. 00:30:40.500 --> 00:30:40.920 Owed. 00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:41.799 God. 00:30:43.559 --> 00:30:45.360 It's the way I was supposed to relate to him. 00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:47.700 There he is. 00:30:49.339 --> 00:30:49.860 Kneeling. 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:52.519 Agonizing. 00:30:52.779 --> 00:30:53.640 In prayer. 00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:56.759 While I forget. 00:30:57.400 --> 00:30:58.160 To pray. 00:30:59.559 --> 00:31:00.940 Or even fall asleep. 00:31:03.220 --> 00:31:04.880 While you insist on. 00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:06.500 On your own way being better. 00:31:06.600 --> 00:31:08.319 That you really know what you need. 00:31:08.600 --> 00:31:09.519 While you avoid. 00:31:09.860 --> 00:31:11.380 Suffering at all costs. 00:31:11.380 --> 00:31:12.000 Instead of. 00:31:12.339 --> 00:31:13.299 Trusting God. 00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:13.860 In it. 00:31:14.180 --> 00:31:14.500 Listen. 00:31:14.660 --> 00:31:14.819 Y'all. 00:31:15.100 --> 00:31:15.720 Me too. 00:31:18.059 --> 00:31:19.059 And Jesus. 00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:20.559 Prays. 00:31:21.559 --> 00:31:21.960 For. 00:31:23.059 --> 00:31:23.660 Us. 00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:25.279 It's the gospel. 00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:26.059 In. 00:31:26.059 --> 00:31:26.160 My. 00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:26.880 My. 00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:27.759 Place. 00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:28.799 Condemned. 00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:29.279 He. 00:31:29.660 --> 00:31:30.000 Stood. 00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:30.720 So that. 00:31:31.039 --> 00:31:31.319 I. 00:31:31.640 --> 00:31:32.079 Stand. 00:31:32.380 --> 00:31:32.640 In. 00:31:32.940 --> 00:31:33.380 His. 00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:34.839 Righteousness. 00:31:34.839 --> 00:31:36.319 Where. 00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:36.339 Are. 00:31:36.339 --> 00:31:37.240 Are you. 00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:37.259 Are you. 00:31:37.259 --> 00:31:37.279 Are you. 00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:37.299 Are you. 00:31:37.299 --> 00:31:37.740 Are you. 00:31:37.740 --> 00:31:38.220 Are you. 00:31:38.220 --> 00:31:40.179 Are you. 00:31:40.179 --> 00:31:40.319 Are you. 00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:40.879 Failed. 00:31:41.439 --> 00:31:42.059 Where. 00:31:42.059 --> 00:31:42.480 Will you. 00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:43.039 Never. 00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:43.459 Be. 00:31:43.459 --> 00:31:44.119 Enough. 00:31:44.959 --> 00:31:45.519 Listen. 00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:46.339 In our. 00:31:46.339 --> 00:31:47.179 Weakness. 00:31:47.179 --> 00:31:47.740 He. 00:31:47.819 --> 00:31:48.179 Is. 00:31:48.179 --> 00:31:49.199 Strong. 00:31:49.399 --> 00:31:50.179 In our. 00:31:50.399 --> 00:31:50.919 Failure. 00:31:51.119 --> 00:31:51.539 He. 00:31:52.220 --> 00:31:52.699 Succeeds. 00:31:52.700 --> 00:31:53.059 Where. 00:31:53.059 --> 00:31:53.380 We. 00:31:53.380 --> 00:31:53.720 Are. 00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:54.720 Inadequate. 00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:55.100 He. 00:31:55.100 --> 00:31:55.380 Is. 00:31:55.380 --> 00:31:56.140 Completely. 00:31:56.140 --> 00:31:56.779 And. 00:31:56.779 --> 00:31:57.700 Gloriously. 00:31:58.279 --> 00:31:58.880 Sufficient. 00:31:59.120 --> 00:31:59.380 Amen. 00:32:00.180 --> 00:32:00.539 Will you. 00:32:00.600 --> 00:32:01.039 Believe. 00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:01.539 That. 00:32:02.860 --> 00:32:03.299 Will you. 00:32:03.299 --> 00:32:03.840 Trust. 00:32:03.840 --> 00:32:04.200 Him. 00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:04.620 To be. 00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:05.080 Enough. 00:32:05.720 --> 00:32:06.019 Will you. 00:32:06.080 --> 00:32:06.340 Find. 00:32:06.340 --> 00:32:06.819 His. 00:32:06.940 --> 00:32:07.319 Grace. 00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:07.860 And. 00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:08.319 His. 00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:09.080 Righteousness. 00:32:09.080 --> 00:32:09.720 For. 00:32:09.860 --> 00:32:10.039 You. 00:32:10.360 --> 00:32:10.660 To be. 00:32:10.900 --> 00:32:11.080 So. 00:32:11.140 --> 00:32:11.360 Much. 00:32:11.440 --> 00:32:11.640 More. 00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:12.559 Gloriously. 00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:13.120 Better. 00:32:13.340 --> 00:32:13.559 Than. 00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:13.960 Anything. 00:32:14.120 --> 00:32:14.200 You. 00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:14.360 Could. 00:32:14.440 --> 00:32:14.600 Give. 00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:14.799 For. 00:32:14.840 --> 00:32:15.279 Yourself. 00:32:15.360 --> 00:32:15.660 Or. 00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:15.920 Earn. 00:32:16.039 --> 00:32:16.140 For. 00:32:16.180 --> 00:32:16.620 Yourself. 00:32:16.619 --> 00:32:18.119 Behold. 00:32:18.119 --> 00:32:18.479 Him. 00:32:18.479 --> 00:32:19.139 There. 00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:19.719 The. 00:32:19.719 --> 00:32:20.359 Risen. 00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:21.139 Lamb. 00:32:21.659 --> 00:32:21.959 My. 00:32:22.159 --> 00:32:22.719 Perfect. 00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:24.439 Spotless. 00:32:25.559 --> 00:32:26.439 Righteousness. 00:32:27.639 --> 00:32:28.319 Your. 00:32:28.399 --> 00:32:28.879 Righteousness. 00:32:28.879 --> 00:32:29.079 Is. 00:32:29.159 --> 00:32:29.239 In. 00:32:29.459 --> 00:32:29.879 Heaven. 00:32:30.659 --> 00:32:30.899 John. 00:32:30.959 --> 00:32:31.219 Bunyan. 00:32:31.339 --> 00:32:31.659 Says. 00:32:31.919 --> 00:32:32.199 So. 00:32:32.259 --> 00:32:32.339 That. 00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:32.439 You. 00:32:32.519 --> 00:32:32.599 Can. 00:32:32.639 --> 00:32:32.799 Know. 00:32:32.859 --> 00:32:33.339 Nobody. 00:32:33.439 --> 00:32:33.559 Can. 00:32:33.639 --> 00:32:33.819 Take. 00:32:33.839 --> 00:32:33.939 It. 00:32:33.939 --> 00:32:34.119 Away. 00:32:34.239 --> 00:32:34.399 From. 00:32:34.399 --> 00:32:34.579 You. 00:32:34.899 --> 00:32:35.439 No. 00:32:35.679 --> 00:32:36.159 Failure. 00:32:36.819 --> 00:32:37.379 No. 00:32:37.500 --> 00:32:38.019 Weakness. 00:32:38.739 --> 00:32:38.979 No. 00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:39.639 Attack. 00:32:39.679 --> 00:32:39.839 Of. 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:40.319 Satan. 00:32:41.159 --> 00:32:41.479 Can. 00:32:41.599 --> 00:32:41.879 Take. 00:32:41.879 --> 00:32:42.099 It. 00:32:42.339 --> 00:32:42.659 Away. 00:32:42.839 --> 00:32:43.000 From. 00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:43.299 You. 00:32:44.039 --> 00:32:44.399 Jesus. 00:32:44.719 --> 00:32:45.079 Pray. 00:32:45.079 --> 00:32:45.359 Says. 00:32:45.980 --> 00:32:46.279 For. 00:32:46.539 --> 00:32:46.939 Us. 00:32:47.099 --> 00:32:47.299 And. 00:32:47.439 --> 00:32:48.039 Submits. 00:32:48.919 --> 00:32:49.359 For. 00:32:49.699 --> 00:32:50.099 Us. 00:32:50.399 --> 00:32:50.519 And. 00:32:50.679 --> 00:32:51.299 Suffers. 00:32:52.139 --> 00:32:52.500 For. 00:32:53.220 --> 00:32:53.740 Us. 00:32:55.179 --> 00:32:55.599 Horatius. 00:32:55.699 --> 00:32:56.000 Bonar. 00:32:56.059 --> 00:32:56.319 Wrote it. 00:32:56.379 --> 00:32:56.539 This. 00:32:56.619 --> 00:32:56.799 Way. 00:32:58.539 --> 00:32:58.819 Upon. 00:32:58.859 --> 00:32:59.339 A life. 00:32:59.599 --> 00:33:00.179 I have not. 00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:00.659 Lived. 00:33:01.019 --> 00:33:01.279 Upon. 00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:01.779 A death. 00:33:01.859 --> 00:33:02.220 I did. 00:33:02.259 --> 00:33:02.480 Not. 00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:02.899 Die. 00:33:03.379 --> 00:33:03.919 Another's. 00:33:03.980 --> 00:33:04.279 Life. 00:33:04.379 --> 00:33:04.939 Another's. 00:33:04.980 --> 00:33:05.319 Death. 00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:06.539 I stake. 00:33:06.899 --> 00:33:07.059 My. 00:33:07.220 --> 00:33:07.539 Whole. 00:33:07.919 --> 00:33:08.480 Eternity. 00:33:10.639 --> 00:33:10.819 Not. 00:33:10.839 --> 00:33:10.899 On. 00:33:10.919 --> 00:33:11.299 The tears. 00:33:11.379 --> 00:33:11.539 Which. 00:33:11.579 --> 00:33:11.879 I have. 00:33:11.939 --> 00:33:12.220 Shed. 00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:12.460 Not. 00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:12.599 On. 00:33:12.619 --> 00:33:13.240 The sorrows. 00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:13.679 I have. 00:33:13.740 --> 00:33:14.059 Known. 00:33:14.059 --> 00:33:15.179 Another's. 00:33:15.259 --> 00:33:15.740 Tears. 00:33:16.359 --> 00:33:17.000 Another's. 00:33:17.259 --> 00:33:17.779 Griefs. 00:33:17.859 --> 00:33:18.059 On. 00:33:18.139 --> 00:33:18.379 These. 00:33:18.460 --> 00:33:19.039 I rest. 00:33:20.079 --> 00:33:20.359 On. 00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:20.819 These. 00:33:21.299 --> 00:33:21.639 Alone. 00:33:23.460 --> 00:33:25.799 Listen to these words from the valley of vision. 00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:29.559 Consider what Jesus has taken in your place. 00:33:30.339 --> 00:33:33.000 And what you receive in his. 00:33:34.539 --> 00:33:35.099 Christ. 00:33:35.799 --> 00:33:36.240 Was. 00:33:36.399 --> 00:33:36.659 All. 00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:37.359 Anguish. 00:33:37.879 --> 00:33:38.039 Man. 00:33:38.099 --> 00:33:38.539 We see it. 00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:38.879 Don't we? 00:33:39.460 --> 00:33:39.799 He was. 00:33:40.019 --> 00:33:40.319 All. 00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:41.019 Anguish. 00:33:41.019 --> 00:33:43.579 That I might be all joy. 00:33:44.460 --> 00:33:45.339 Cast off. 00:33:45.940 --> 00:33:47.660 That I might be brought in. 00:33:48.859 --> 00:33:50.079 Trodden down as an enemy. 00:33:50.220 --> 00:33:52.440 That I might be welcomed as a friend. 00:33:53.619 --> 00:33:55.339 Surrendered to hell's worst. 00:33:55.539 --> 00:33:57.740 That I might attain heaven's best. 00:33:59.039 --> 00:33:59.519 Stripped. 00:33:59.740 --> 00:34:01.319 That I might be clothed. 00:34:01.460 --> 00:34:01.779 Wounded. 00:34:02.299 --> 00:34:03.559 That I might be healed. 00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:04.740 A thirst. 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:06.220 That I might drink. 00:34:06.859 --> 00:34:07.379 Tormented. 00:34:07.720 --> 00:34:09.320 That I might be comforted. 00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:10.559 Made a shame. 00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:12.600 That I might inherit glory. 00:34:13.160 --> 00:34:14.080 Entered darkness. 00:34:14.820 --> 00:34:16.920 That I might have eternal light. 00:34:18.120 --> 00:34:19.480 My Savior wept. 00:34:20.300 --> 00:34:22.360 That all tears might be wiped. 00:34:22.820 --> 00:34:24.000 From my eyes. 00:34:24.580 --> 00:34:25.220 Groaned. 00:34:25.600 --> 00:34:27.600 That I might have endless song. 00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:29.360 Endured all pain. 00:34:29.600 --> 00:34:32.059 That I might have unfading health. 00:34:32.580 --> 00:34:33.920 Bore a thorny crown. 00:34:34.059 --> 00:34:36.240 That I might have a glory diadem. 00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:38.160 Bowed his head. 00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:41.500 That I might uplift mine. 00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:45.339 Is there anything else. 00:34:46.500 --> 00:34:49.239 That would make you want to pray more. 00:34:50.379 --> 00:34:52.159 To crawl up into his lap. 00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:53.399 And tell him what's on your heart. 00:34:53.500 --> 00:34:55.500 To cry out to him. 00:34:55.719 --> 00:34:56.779 When you need help. 00:34:58.619 --> 00:35:00.079 Than seeing his heart. 00:35:00.619 --> 00:35:01.219 For you. 00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:02.980 Than. 00:35:02.980 --> 00:35:06.059 Than contemplating what he has endured. 00:35:06.059 --> 00:35:08.739 In your place. 00:35:08.739 --> 00:35:11.699 See Jesus still tells his disciples to pray. 00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:12.259 Doesn't he? 00:35:13.799 --> 00:35:14.920 A couple times. 00:35:16.340 --> 00:35:17.920 Oh if they only understood. 00:35:18.460 --> 00:35:20.539 How he was praying. 00:35:21.079 --> 00:35:21.960 For them. 00:35:22.619 --> 00:35:24.579 How he was agonizing. 00:35:24.739 --> 00:35:25.719 And suffering. 00:35:26.219 --> 00:35:26.699 For them. 00:35:26.840 --> 00:35:28.019 How he was preparing. 00:35:28.539 --> 00:35:29.320 To die. 00:35:29.940 --> 00:35:30.380 For. 00:35:30.900 --> 00:35:31.420 Them. 00:35:31.420 --> 00:35:34.079 Do you hear. 00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:35.280 The praying. 00:35:35.539 --> 00:35:35.840 Savior. 00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:36.519 This morning. 00:35:36.980 --> 00:35:37.519 Pleading. 00:35:37.680 --> 00:35:38.720 On your behalf. 00:35:38.980 --> 00:35:40.099 For your sake. 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:41.579 In your place. 00:35:41.700 --> 00:35:42.059 Even. 00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:42.920 What. 00:35:43.340 --> 00:35:43.740 Great. 00:35:44.099 --> 00:35:44.519 Hope. 00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:44.900 Y'all. 00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:46.500 No matter. 00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:47.800 What you're facing. 00:35:48.800 --> 00:35:49.240 No matter. 00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:50.559 What you're feeling. 00:35:50.980 --> 00:35:51.619 Jesus. 00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:52.920 Praise. 00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:54.180 For you. 00:35:56.059 --> 00:35:57.019 Hear his voice. 00:35:58.340 --> 00:35:59.220 Trust him. 00:36:00.220 --> 00:36:00.700 Today. 00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:01.440 Let's pray. 00:36:06.980 --> 00:36:07.579 Jesus. 00:36:07.720 --> 00:36:08.599 Might we hear you. 00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:10.519 Even now. 00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:11.039 You're praying. 00:36:11.960 --> 00:36:12.920 For us. 00:36:12.920 --> 00:36:28.980 Might there be comfort. 00:36:31.059 --> 00:36:32.539 In a savior. 00:36:33.220 --> 00:36:34.240 Who knows. 00:36:35.440 --> 00:36:36.360 And understands. 00:36:37.159 --> 00:36:37.840 Our weakness. 00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:41.460 Who has suffered like us. 00:36:41.460 --> 00:36:43.179 In every way. 00:36:43.840 --> 00:36:44.199 Yet. 00:36:44.920 --> 00:36:46.039 Was without sin. 00:36:48.179 --> 00:36:49.400 Because I am. 00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:51.139 With plenty of that. 00:36:51.460 --> 00:36:51.820 Father. 00:36:52.220 --> 00:36:53.079 Forgive us. 00:36:53.820 --> 00:36:54.599 Take Jesus. 00:36:55.320 --> 00:36:55.659 Record. 00:36:56.220 --> 00:36:57.240 Instead of ours. 00:36:57.659 --> 00:36:58.400 Cover us. 00:36:58.400 --> 00:36:59.240 In his. 00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:00.519 Righteousness. 00:37:01.860 --> 00:37:03.159 That we might. 00:37:03.639 --> 00:37:04.240 Rejoice. 00:37:04.720 --> 00:37:05.380 And pray. 00:37:06.420 --> 00:37:07.460 And trust. 00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:10.559 Because we have no other hope. 00:37:11.460 --> 00:37:14.260 Make Jesus beautiful. 00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:14.900 In our eyes. 00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:15.440 This morning. 00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:16.199 In our hearts. 00:37:16.860 --> 00:37:17.740 And give us joy. 00:37:17.860 --> 00:37:18.519 And confidence. 00:37:18.780 --> 00:37:19.400 And hope. 00:37:19.820 --> 00:37:20.679 And dependence. 00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:21.559 Because of it. 00:37:21.639 --> 00:37:22.740 We pray in his name. 00:37:23.340 --> 00:37:23.619 Amen. 00:37:23.619 --> 00:37:23.740 Amen. 00:37:28.740 --> 00:37:30.079 For more information. 00:37:30.460 --> 00:37:31.380 Visit us online. 00:37:31.579 --> 00:37:32.679 At southwood.org.