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 Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church Podcast.

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 If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you.

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 Thank you for joining us today.

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 Let's pray. Father God, your Son went through

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 this day that we celebrate great victory over our sins. Our God, we couldn't have Sunday. We couldn't

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 have the resurrection without this day. And as we fathom the gravity of the sins of the world on your

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 Son, Lord, for all humanity in one day, Lord. And so we contemplate what you've done

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 for us, Lord. And maybe we never forget it, that you became our sins on the cross.

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 That you paid for our sins, Lord, on this day that we remember what you've done, Lord. And

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 thank you so much for it. And Lord, we just, in a sense, surrender again, Lord, that our old life

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 is dead with you on the cross. So, Lord, we ask you to speak to us today in your word,

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 especially with your spirit, that we would be connected, Lord, to what you've done for us

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 as we celebrate your word and your statements on the cross, Lord God, and look forward to

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 our old creation, our old past is dead and it's behind us. And so we thank you

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 in Jesus' name, amen. It's such an illogical thing. We know what Sunday brings,

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 the resurrection. Why the heavy heart? I can't explain it. It's got to be the Holy Spirit,

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 why we would kind of feel the heaviness of what Christ went through for us. It's just

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 He bore everything, all of our ugliness, all of our sin on the cross. He became our sins

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 on the cross. And just every good Friday, this just hits me, this wave of just,

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 really, it's just unfathomable that we have a Savior, a King that would come in

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 and who could have everything at His disposal and would choose, choose to die for His subjects.

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 Isn't it just amazing? Yeah, so Father God, Lord, just help me. I don't want to be at

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 any emotional mush up here. And I know you have some important things to say. And so, Lord,

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 we just ask you for decency and an order that you would project and proclaim what your word

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 wants to say to us today in victory. You know, no longer, you know, victimhood but victory.

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 Lord, so speak to us today in your word, in your Holy Spirit, in Jesus' name, amen.

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 Amen. We're going to be turning to Luke chapter 23 and looking at a few verses. But today's message

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 we're actually going to look at the seven sayings of Jesus, His last words, the seven

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 sayings of Christ on the cross. And you know, I look back and I know I've done this at

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 least two other good Fridays. And you know, maybe it's an ounce of pride or something,

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 but I never like duplicating or redoing things. In fact, these notes always go in the trash after

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 a sermon because I think the spirit should be always, you know, breathing new new application

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 into our lives and new life into His word. But you know, I started thinking that

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 studying these seven statements of Christ wouldn't be too many if we did it every year

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 because these statements that he says are so reconciling of every man, every woman in the

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 world. And so we're going to be looking at these and a couple of them, three of them are found

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 in Luke, but then we're going to do a detour, but everything except for Luke is up on the

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 PowerPoint. And so we're going to be looking at these seven statements. And you know, I'm sure

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 he may have said other things, but only what was recorded were these seven sayings, these seven

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 statements of Christ. So obviously he wanted these in the word. And he obviously wanted us to hear

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 his last pre-resurrected statement preaching his last speech. He wanted this to be recorded

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 before he would rise again to new life. And when you think about it, you know, the last words,

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 I was Googling a lot of things and figured, you know what, so unimportant compared to what

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 Christ does to say. But when you think if you knew you had some last words, you know, you would make

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 them important, weren't you? You would be so purposeful and intentional about what you said.

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 So these seven statements are so important to all of us. And then the fact that they're seven,

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 and you know the importance of seven, you've studied your Bible for years, seven is a picture

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 of wholeness, perfection, seven fold of the Holy Spirit. It just means wholeness. And so,

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 you know, I believe that there's seven for a purpose because he wants us to know that these

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 seven statements cover it all. So let's dive in into Luke 23 verse 32. But there are also two

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 others criminals led with him to be put to death. And when they had come to the place called Calvary,

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 there they crucified him and the criminals, one on the right hand and the other on the left.

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 And then Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do. So this is the

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 first statement of forgiveness. You know, he wanted us to know that we are forgiven. He wanted

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 everyone to know that we're literally the ones who nailed him to the cross, you are forgiven.

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 He's speaking to his father, Father, forgive them because they don't understand what they're

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 actually doing here. And that's so significant to all of us because there's only one name we

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 can call upon and be forgiven. And it's Jesus Christ, right? He forgives sins. And so he wants

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 us to realize that it all starts there. You know what I've always felt was so significant is when

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 Christ rose from the dead, okay? And all the apostles are in that room talking, ah, he appeared to,

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 you know, he appeared to this one and that one. And they're all like, you know,

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 kibitzan, right? And suddenly Jesus is there with them. And all the doors were locked. So he just like

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 passed through matter and was there in their midst. And of course they were startled. Whoa! You know,

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 and do you remember what he said? He said, peace I give to you and I send you just as

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 my father sent me. And then he gave them that first ministry of forgiveness. We see this in

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 John 20, 22 and 23. He says, and when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,

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 receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them. If you retain the

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 sins of any, they are retained. And you know what he was saying? He was saying, I have given you

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 the Spirit to forgive. You know, without the Holy Spirit, we can't really forgive in the name

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 of Jesus Christ. And so in a sense, their sins stick to us, you know. But when he gives us the power

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 to forgive, they're no longer part of our psyche. They're no longer part of how we view ourselves.

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 They're no longer part. Now that's sometimes it takes years to really cleanse and shred those

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 old things off of us. But he says he provides forgiveness. And not only that,

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 but we are ambassadors of that forgiveness to others, aren't we? We carry that, that ministry

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 of forgiveness. He gave them that instruction, forgive. What's amazing? Do you remember when

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 in Acts chapter seven, when Stephen was the first martyr for Christ and they had brought him out

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 and he gave this long speech. And, and they were like, you know, clenching their ears when

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 he started to rebuke them for killing the redeemer, the savior. And they got so angry and they just

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 started throwing stones at him. And he's just, can you, you know, and we picture this like pebbles,

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 these things are boulders. And he, and then we read this in Acts chapter seven, verse 60.

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 And then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, Lord, do not charge them with this

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 sin. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. That's the Christian version of dying, falling asleep.

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 But Stephen knew, you know, this is the perfect opportunity to forgive. Like, what better time

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 right now to forgive in the name of Jesus Christ? Because this is exactly when he forgave

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 his persecutors. And so this was something that the Lord wanted all of us to know that,

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 you know, without forgiveness, we can't be forgiven. Forgiveness is essential

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 to know that we are forgiven, to believe that we are forgiven. If we don't believe that, then we

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 carry those sins into every relationship, don't we? We just carry the baggage to the next

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 environment we're in because we think we're stuck with them. But he says, no, leave that behind.

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 You are forgiven. That's awesome, isn't it? And then let's read on.

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 And they divided his garments and cast lots. And the people stood looking on. But even the

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 rulers with them sneered saying, he saved others. Let him save himself if he is the

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 Christ, the chosen of God. Now this casting of lots, of course, so many of these things are

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 fulfillment of the scriptures of prophecy. And if you read, I'm sure you've read Psalm 22

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 from David. And so many aspects of that Psalm portray the crucifixion. And here it was spoken

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 about years and years earlier, over a thousand years before, right, that this would be happening

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 at the foot of the cross. Here is the Savior on the cross and they're casting lots to see who gets

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 his clothing. And David wrote, they divided my garments among them. And for my clothing,

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 they cast lots. David, I can't imagine what he was thinking when he was writing that.

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 He probably knew something was outside of himself that was causing him to write these words.

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 We're going to see actually later two other verses in Psalm 22 that really portray this whole picture.

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 And so here scripture is being fulfilled.

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 and saying, if you are the king of the Jews, save yourself. And an inscription also was written

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 over him in letters of Greek, Latin and Hebrew. This is the king of the Jews. And then one of the

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 criminals who were hanged, blasphemed him, saying, if you are the Christ, save yourself and us.

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 You know, what's interesting is the other gospels actually say that both of the criminals

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 were mocking Christ. One on the left, one on the right, they're both mocking Christ.

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 And yet here we learn that one, one repented, just observing Christ saying, forgive them. I mean,

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 who would do that? Most criminals were probably hurling all kinds of curses and everything at

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 everybody who was there. And yet he heard this forgiveness and he looked upon him and he saw

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 something is different. Something is different about him. He doesn't deserve this. And he repented.

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 And so we read on verse 40. But the other answered, rebuked him saying, do you not even fear God

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 seeing you are under the same condemnation? And we indeed justly for we receive the due

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 reward of our deeds. But this man has done nothing wrong. Then he said to Jesus, Lord,

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 remember me when you come into your kingdom. And Jesus said his second recorded statement.

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 He said, surely I say to you today, you will be with me in paradise. And so we see

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 this second statement is really a promise, a promise of eternal life with Jesus Christ.

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 He said to him, today you will be with me in paradise. When I think of this word, remember me.

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 He didn't know this criminal before this incident, right? And yet he said, remember me

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 when you go into your kingdom, he realized this man has another kingdom and it's not of this world,

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 right? And he says, remember me. You know, the word remember me, meneami,

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 to remain abide. And that's the first part. And the second part of the word, it comes from

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 massamai, which is to chew, consume, eat, and devour. So what's the significance of that?

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 Remember me, you know, to remain abide and the chewing and consuming. Now, here's a guy

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 who probably had a very horrific life, probably raised in a lousy family, probably, you know,

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 abused, whatever. And he was a criminal and he was captured. Maybe he was one of the

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 zealots trying to take over Jerusalem. But whatever it was, he had a lot of baggage, right?

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 And he's saying, remember me, you know, the Lord looks past the things we've done in this world

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 when we give our lives to him. And he sees who he always knew because we are foreknown, right?

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 We are predestined. Those who come to Christ, he's always known us. He saw our potential before we

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 started committing those sins. And in a sense, this criminal was saying, don't remember the stuff,

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 don't remember the sin, don't remember the deeds, but remember me, the one you really know.

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 Deep down, the one that you craft wonderfully and fearfully made in my mother's womb,

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 that one, will you remember that one? Will you take me with you, you know?

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 And that's what the Lord, he doesn't see our things. He's able to release those things

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 because he knows who you are to him. You're not your sins. You're his beloved.

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 And as this criminal is saying, remember me, we can see this picture. And,

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 you know, I mentioned this verse on Sunday and the connection to the criminal, but it was

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 sort of by accident. And then all of a sudden I'm really starting to think, wow, this actually has

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 to do with Joel. Because do you remember in Joel, he was writing and he said, you know what?

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 I will restore the days that the locus have eaten. And we see this to chew, consume, eat, devour.

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 This is actually in Joel chapter two, verses 25, 26. So I will restore to you the years that the

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 swarming locus has eaten, the crawling locus, the consuming locus, and the chewing locus,

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 by my great army in which I sent among you, you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and

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 praise the name of the Lord your God who has dealt wondrously with you and my people shall never be

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 put to shame. And I just think, you know, all of us can consider ourselves like the sin that we've

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 committed. Instead, the Lord looks right through that says, no, no, I see you who I made you to be.

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 This criminal saying, remember me, not my things, because I can't go with you with those things,

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 but remember who I am to you. He was dying for that criminal on the cross. He was actually

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 dying for the other criminal too. But he never received that gift, right? And so this is really,

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 this is really impactful. You know, when Peter was there watching Christ in the courtyard

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 being, you know, accused, prosecuted, and all the people just like spitting on them and hitting them.

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 And then the rooster crowed the second time and Peter remembered. He remembered what Jesus said

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 in Matthew 26, all four gospels. How would you like to be Peter? All of them wrote. A lot of

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 times they don't all write about the same thing. They all wrote about that, how Peter suddenly

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 remembered. I said I was going to, he said I was going to deny him three times. You know,

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 so here it is. He remembered, but isn't it awesome because the Lord didn't remember,

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 he remembers, but he chooses not to remember. He redeemed him. He came on the beach,

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 as you know, in the Sea of Galilee, and he asked him three times, do you love me,

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 and feed my sheep? In other words, I'm wiping out every one of those denials with an affirmation.

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 And that's what he does with us, right? And so he chooses to remember our sins no more. I love Hebrews

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 8, 12, and 10, 17, but this says, for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins,

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 and their lawless deeds, I will remember no more. You know, why should we keep remembering them

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 if he's choosing to remember them no more, right? And yet so much self-shame and guilt can continue

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 in light of what we've done, and we see ourselves that way. That's why James says, don't look at the

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 mirror. Look at the Jesus, right? The perfect liberty of law. Look at him. He's freedom. If you

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 look at you, you'll be re-enslaved, right? We don't look at ourselves, we look at him. That's

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 who we're becoming, right? And so he assures him, you will be with me. And this is beautiful because

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 he's telling all of us, you will be with me. Now, we won't get into where paradise is. That's a

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 rabbit trail. So the next thing he says, which isn't captured in Luke, but as he's there, and he

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 says that to the man he's looking, he sees the only male disciple near the foot of the cross,

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 which is John. And there's so much significance to that because John, he was the disciple whom

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 Jesus loved. He knew he was loved. That's what propelled him to stay right with Christ to the

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 bitter end, right? Because he knew he was loved. Love casts out fear. The rest were trying to

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 prove themselves to God, and they weren't over here to be found, right? But perfect love casts

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 out fear. And so he wasn't afraid of what could happen, even though the high priest even knew John.

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 He wasn't afraid in being identified with Christ, right? And so he was there and he looks down

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 and he said, who better to take care of mama is my beloved John, the one whom I love. And

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 when Jesus therefore saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing by,

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 he said to his mother, woman, behold your son. And he said to the disciple, behold your mother.

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 And from that day, from that hour, that disciple took her into his own home. And you know, Jesus

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 did say, remember when his mother and his brothers came to get him? And they thought he was out of

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 his mind because he's saying and doing things, and he's really endangering himself, right?

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 to stop him from doing what he's meant to do, what he came to do. We got to stop. That's like,

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 it didn't work out well for Peter. When Peter starts saying, you can't go there,

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 who's my mother? Who's my brothers? The one whom does the will of my father is my family.

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 why have you forsaken me? Luke doesn't record that, but he felt the separation. He felt

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 the separation that all will feel in their sins if they don't come to Christ. And he felt that for

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 have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me and from the words of my groaning?

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 they're the same, right? And Jesus even said, you're all going to scatter. We read about this

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 to each his own and will leave me alone. And yet what? I am not alone because why? Because the

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 that's what sin does, doesn't it? It separates us from God. We separate ourselves. Nothing can

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 separate us from the love of the Father, right? From his end, but from our end a lot can separate us,

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 right? Because we run just like the prodigal son. We run away. He's not leaving. We are, right?

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 abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, nor has he hidden his face from him. Who's he talking about?

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 me? Why don't you? And by the end of the Psalm, he's like, thank you for always hearing me.

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 aren't they? Like sometimes we could just feel like we have been forsaken. Where are you, God?

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 life. Where are you? But he's there. He's there. I believe so was the Father there,

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 even though it may have felt like he wasn't. But again, not to get into a doctrinal dispute,

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 it's just, it's just, I think there's enough scripture there to, you know, make us question

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 said I thirst. And now if that's all full of sour wine was sitting there and they filled

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 a sponge with sour wine and put it on his hip and put it to his mouth. And you know,

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 it's like, well, that would mean I have to start at the top, right? But if there's so much symbolism,

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 in other words, you're just miserable, you know, sour grapes, right? But sour wine is even worse,

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 it's good for nothing. It's not a celebration thing. It's old. And yet sometimes Roman soldiers

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 he knew what they would reach to his mouth because it's a picture, really, of the old wine of the

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 enough, enough. If they give their lives to me, they have a new lineage. They have a new destiny.

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 would pass over the houses and not kill the firstborn of the Israelites, right? And so that's

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 all a picture, as you know, of Christ. We won't dig all into that. But the fact that there was

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 about atonement as opposed to atonement and taking away of sins, you know? And Christ's blood

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 and bowing his head, he gave up his spirit. And you know, that it is finished, like when he

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 of grace, where we receive mercy and fine grace in our time of need. That's all the time,

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 right? Anyone can pass through that holy of holies to see Jesus Christ. I love in Hebrews it says

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 but confidence, right? That we will receive mercy and fine grace. So Jesus said these words to say,

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 it is finished. You know, I came across in Revelation 21.6, and he said to me, this is John

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 I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. You know, when

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 just what you would think of it. It means it's finished. It's over. It's done. Well,

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 died with Christ on the cross. It is finished. It is teleo. They don't have to have control

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 of you any longer. You know, we just read in Romans in chapter 6, we are no longer slaves

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 to sin because he paid for them, right? It is finished. We are no longer under bondage

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 of sins, right? That's what finished means. But it is done as something else. It is done

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 means more of I am, I have, I have complete, I have, I'm done. I'm done preparing. Okay.

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 she's done the beginning part so we can enjoy what it's really all for, right? It is done. That's

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 a picture of being done. That word is genomai, right? It means like it's like it has been prepared

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 sense? And yet finish would be when Jill says, did you do the dishes? Okay. Now those dishes are

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 being scraped into the trash can never to come back, right? We don't have a garbage disposal

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 like if I were to say, are you done packing? Well, you're packing, but you're packing to go somewhere.

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 it's finished on the cross. It's done at the resurrection, right? And it's more done at the

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 Pentecost if you can have that, right? When he sends his Holy Spirit upon us, it is really done.

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 the sun was darkened and the veil of the temple was torn in two. And when Jesus had cried out

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 he breathed his last. And so when the Centurion saw what had happened, he glorified God saying,

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 what had been done, beat their breasts and returned. But all his acquaintances and the women who

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 Into your hands, I commit my spirit. It's exactly what Stephen said only in his own words.

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 He's saying, here I am, Lord. I'm ready. Receive me. As the dynamic duo come forward,

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 Jake and Bray, don't you love seeing family serving together? It's so beautiful.

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 And especially a husband and a wife up here doing wonderful worship.

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 We're going to start giving out the communion. But as we think about these things,

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 what Jesus said on the cross,

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 just kind of recapping, based on what Jesus first said, you are forgiven.

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 You know, we have to learn to forgive ourselves and learn to forgive others.

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 And perhaps right now would be a great day.

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 If there's someone we're harboring unforgiveness towards right now,

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 maybe right now would be a good time to just release it.

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 You know, it's weird, you know, unforgiveness. We do it. Let me take it back. We do it.

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 And we take it back. It's in waves sometimes. I mean, eventually, as long as we keep

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 releasing it, it will eventually be a distant memory that we can remember no more, you know.

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 But yet sometimes when we take it back, it's like the Lord say, come on. I don't take yours back.

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 You know, I have forgiven your sins from the East to the West. I will remember your sins no more.

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 They're gone. And maybe right now on Good Friday, in light of what Christ did for us,

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 we can just say, Lord, I want to die here again today to those old sins, those old offenses against

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 me because I died with you on the cross. Like you literally died for my sins and for their sins.

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 You already paid the price. What am I waiting to do or get for what they've done against me?

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 Lord, I just want to die to that once and for all. Just die. Maybe that's you today.

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 You can just say, Lord, I want to die to that. I know I'm saved, but why do I keep

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 recalling, remembering the things of the past? Because just as we read, when we remember them,

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 they chew, they eat, they swarm, they devour, they devour the life we're meant to live now.

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 Unforgiveness brings just death into our lives.

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 Lord God, I just want to die

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 to this thing that I have not forgiven because, Lord, if you counted all my sins against me,

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 I would never see you.

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 Lord, help me forgive right now. I believe. Help my unbelief. I forgive. Help my unforgiveness.

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 and move on to this new life, Lord. Those sins are finished, Lord. I want to live the done life.

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 Amen. Just as Jesus said to the criminal on the cross that today we have reservations in heaven,

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 isn't that awesome? We can't lose that invite, that gift card, because it's imprinted in us.

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 We have a new family in Christ, just like John and Mary. He will never forsake us.

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 We are not cursed of the sour wine of our forefathers or the family that we grew up with or

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 any of the environments we experienced. We no longer have to drink that sour wine of curse.

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 Our sins are finished, and we now have a new Holy Spirit living in us.

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 I take communion now.

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 of Corinth, he told them, keep this going, this institution of the Lord's Supper.

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 for I have received from the Lord, that which I also deliver to you,

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 that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which he was betrayed took bread,

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 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, take, eat. This is my body,

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 which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me. Father, God, we thank you for this bread,

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 which is a picture of your body on the cross. In Jesus' name, amen.

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 And in the same manner, he also took the cup after supper,

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 saying, this cup is the new covenant in my blood. This do as often as you drink it,

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 in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup,

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 you proclaim the Lord's death, the finished part, till he comes.

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 Lord, we thank you that we have indeed died with you on the cross.

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 Without death, we couldn't have truly lived in the spirit. Thank you, Lord,

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 for this great day that you paid for humanity's sin. Thank you for paying for my sins on the cross.

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 In Jesus' name, amen. Let's drink.

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 And let's all stand. We're going to close with some singing.

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 Lord, thank you for our dear family here. Thank you that we have reservations in heaven.

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 In Jesus' name, amen.

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 Thanks for joining us at Lansdale Life Church as we praise God and discuss his word.

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 Don't forget to join us for worship live Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. Eastern on YouTube.

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 Be blessed and have a great day.