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[0:00] So they took Jesus, and he went out bearing his own cross to the place called the place of the skull, which in Aramae is called Malgotha.

[0:22] They had crucified him, and with him, and with others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. Paul also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross.

[0:33] It read, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city.

[0:45] And it was written in Aramae, in Latin, and in Greek. So the chief priests of the Jews said to Paulette, do not write the King of the Jews, but rather, this man said, I am the King of the Jews.

[1:04] Paulette answered, what I have written, I have written. When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part to each sold.

[1:18] Paulette, as also his tunic, but the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top of the bottom. They said to one another, that is not scary, but cast lots for it, to see who they shall be.

[1:31] This was to fulfill the scripture, which says, they divided my garments among them, and for my clothes they cast lots. For the soldiers did these days.

[1:45] The standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary, the wife of Moses, and Mary Macalyn. When Jesus saw his mother and his disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, woman, behold your son.

[2:04] Then he said to the disciple, behold your mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his home home. That is the word of the Lord.

[2:16] Amen. You've seen this before in the church.

[2:34] Sometimes when someone is faced from a thing, and they're looking good at something, you give them the honorific title, King.

[2:45] All right, here we go. Let's go back in time and move forward. He's good, but it's called... It's called the Swim.

[2:55] Thank you very much. Elvis Presley is... Thank you very much. Johnny Carson. King of Wainwright, very good.

[3:07] Michael Jackson. LeBron James. Dean James. You know, I differ. George is the king.

[3:22] Amen. I'm not saying amen. I know the wrong group. But when we see, we give these guys this title, or women, their king. Their king is always limited to a particular sphere.

[3:36] Don't we come to Jesus? Yeah. He is just the king. That's it.

[3:48] Yeah. Supreme king. Yeah. The greatest king. The divine king. If you want to add something, you can add creation. Or the phrase, all things.

[4:01] He is king. He is king. Yet he was crucified as a criminal for his people. Let that sit here.

[4:13] Normally, subjects lay down their lives for their leaders. Their kings. Their generals. And whatnot. But not this king. The character of his death is so different from anyone else in all of history.

[4:29] Yeah. No one died like him. So the question is, how do you view his death? How do you view the cross? What do you see there at the cross?

[4:43] Keep in mind, the Jewish leaders have been working. They sent out emails. They got on Instagram. They publicized what they wanted.

[4:58] They got the people riled up to crucify Jesus. They manipulated the crowd. And they manipulated the Roman governor higher. These guys are ace-woo-cum.

[5:10] Great with their people. Yeah. So Jesus is being led away. The details are relatively skewed. But this is the most holy moment.

[5:23] Three points. It's one. First of all, Jesus is the crucified king of the nations. Okay. Yeah. I hope you have the Bibles that you're looking down at.

[5:36] I'm going to refer to that. I'm going to read everything. Listen. This is 1622. All right. He sat out carrying the cross beam of his own cross.

[5:46] Right. Right. And so an African man from Cyrene named Simon was conscripted to help him.

[6:01] Now, Simon didn't volunteer for this job. Right. He was probably an African Jewish man who was in town for the Passover.

[6:11] And they grabbed him and said, you carry it. So he does. John doesn't record this. But it seems he's just focusing on how Jesus bore the cross only she was to die.

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[7:05] The king was taken, it says, to an execution place called the Place of the Skull. Lightly, that means that that was an outcropping of rock there that kind of had the visual image of a skull.

[7:22] And that read the Jewish people of that era, the Place of the Skull is translated, it says, Golgotha. But we sing at Calvary, don't we?

[7:35] Calvary is the Latin word for Golgotha. It comes from the first complete Bible, the Latin Vulgate by Jerome. So that's why we sing at Calvary.

[7:47] We could be singing at Golgotha. It's the same thing. He was crucified on the cross. He was crucified. And John gives us details for a reason.

[7:58] He was crucified outside the city, which is where capital punishment by custom was quindered. It could not be done within the city, probably for the desire for ceremonial purity, because there were laws, Jewish laws, against being, coming souls for accepting a dead body.

[8:18] So likely he's punished outside the city, because the people are so concerned with being religious. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[8:32] And yet they're killing the king of kings, the very one who gave them their religion. The writer of Hebrews picks up with this stuff. He picks up with this.

[8:42] Hebrews chapter 13, 11 through 14. Now the Bible will turn there. I can't wait for you, but turn if you'd like to put this down. Hebrews 13, 11 through 14. Here's what he says. For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest, as they sacrifice for sin, are burned outside the camp.

[9:05] Sacrifices? The priests, they come outside the camp and burn them. So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.

[9:19] Therefore, they go to them outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. For here, here, we have no last for the city, but we seek the city that is to come.

[9:35] Do you see it? Jesus is set aside, set outside the earthly Jerusalem that we may be led into the new Jerusalem.

[9:51] He's put outside of an earthly city so that people can be brought into a spiritual city. He is set apart that we may be set apart for God.

[10:01] That's what sanctify means, to be set apart. as holy. Holy, set apart. We belong to him now. Jesus suffers outside the gate, outside the city, as a criminal so that you and I, who are the true criminals, may be made holy, may God's special possession, his special prize, for his use and service alone.

[10:32] Yeah. We are holy to the Lord because of that sacrifice outside the city. Much like of the day of atonement, Jesus brings his own blood to the altar of God.

[10:47] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. one sacrifice for all before the church. When grass this produces in us a desire to follow him, even as it means we too will suffer insults and more outside and inside our cities.

[11:18] Yeah. Amen. I'm wondering sometimes do I really get it? because I am a comfort-seeking, easy, easy life-loving me and I, that's why we easy.

[11:37] I want it smooth. I can't lift bumps in the road. I don't want pain.

[11:53] I will avoid this. it's like, pain for me is like driving on the highway in Atlanta. I will do anything to avoid it.

[12:07] But when you see Jesus suffering through you outside the gate to make you holy, you who the criminal who deserved the cross, no, he suffers through you outside the gate as the criminal so that you, the true criminal, might be brought into the kingdom of God.

[12:29] Yeah. And when you grasp that, and the more you grasp that, you are willing to follow him even if it means suffering for him. Yeah. Because we know, as the text said, we have a lasting and better city that is to come.

[12:45] The new Jerusalem to reveal, to reveal the coming of our Lord. that's the number. Now, we're still talking about the condemnations. Notice, the four gospels mention that Jesus is crucified with two others.

[13:00] John says, two others were president criminals, just criminals. Matthew and Mark called them robbers who were violent type men like Barabbas. In each case, Jesus is the criminal in the middle.

[13:16] Maybe that was where Barabbas was supposed to be. So, this place, remember? Right, right. I don't know what that means that Barabbas was the worst criminal and now Jesus is being called the worst criminal because it's in the middle.

[13:29] I don't know. It's possible that they keep saying that. But it doesn't matter. He is now the criminal crucified between the two of us.

[13:42] John and the other Oscar writers said, if it's not saved us, then they crucified. That's it.

[13:52] They don't, there's no great details of the nails or how it was done. Everyone knew how it was done at that time. It was horrific.

[14:05] Theologian Andreas Kostenberger says, in ancient times, crucifixion was synonymous with hard and shame, a death inflicted on slaves, bandits, prisoners of war and revolutionaries.

[14:21] Former, years ago, Cicero, the Roman statement and the statement of Gloria said, he was born before the time of Christ, he spoke of crucifixion as a cruel and disgusting penalty.

[14:34] A Roman citizen could not be crucified without the permission of the emperor. That's how bad it was. It was the worst shame they could become. They got it from the Persians, but the Romans protected it.

[14:49] It was nothing worse than being crucified. That's how we have a word that talks about great pain. You know the word. Say it, come on.

[15:01] Excruciating. It means our cross. that's where the word comes from. Something that hurts you and the pain that you've never felt before in your life. And you don't have one of you again.

[15:14] That's what Jesus is enduring with. Good. What is very important is the sign. Can you see the sign?

[15:27] The victim's crimes and reasons for crucifixion were generally put on a plaque and fixed. on the vertical pole above the head of the person on the cross.

[15:40] That listing of crimes would be a threat or warning to anyone else who thinks they might try it. Right. You want to be like him?

[15:53] That's it. You want to get what he got? Try this. Do it. That's it. I can. We'll take you out too. what was his crime?

[16:06] Isn't it funny? What was his crime? Pilate wrote it. Jesus imagined the king of the Jews. He's the king of the Jews.

[16:17] That's his crime. Pilate didn't know it, but he was acknowledging the truth. He wasn't trying to. He wasn't bowing down to Jesus.

[16:29] He didn't really care about Jesus being the king of the Jews all that much. I think he was impressed by Jesus. I think when he saw how Jesus angled him, I think he was like, whoa, this guy is something.

[16:43] But his lettering there wasn't designed to honor Jesus. It was designed to stick a needle in the eye of the Jewish people.

[16:56] Jewish names. Look at what we're doing to your king. He puts it in several languages. Now he knows something going on here. He puts it first of all in Aramaic.

[17:08] Aramaic is the language of the Jewish people. Similar to Hebrew, but not quite the same. They spoke Aramaic. He puts it in Latin, which is the language of the Roman government and the Roman army.

[17:23] He puts it in Greek, which is the universal language of that empire. the Jewish leaders want him to change it.

[17:36] Aramaic won't change it because he's sticking it to them. But here's the real truth. He couldn't change it. God wouldn't let him change it. God wouldn't let him change it.

[17:47] Because that was the truth. He was preaching the truth and didn't even know it. He was an unbeliever but still he had a grasp of small grasp tiny grasp of the truth.

[18:08] Jesus is the king and he's reigning from the cross. He's actually reigning. But if I be lifted up from the earth he said before this I will draw all men unto me.

[18:25] Jesus is a victim. He's reigning. He's the king of kings on the cross. He's suffering because any rival to Caesar had to be executed.

[18:40] I don't think Pilate thought Jesus was a real rival to Caesar. But how would it look if he said no to the Jewish leaders and the word got back to Rome.

[18:52] He was already in trouble with Rome once before. By the way, three years after the crucifixion, Pilate is removed. So it's coming for him. It's coming. But here, right here, he's placating the Jews.

[19:05] He didn't want to do it. He's placating the Jews. He gets them a little jab in the face while he's doing it and saying, okay, you got me, but I will get you. So Jesus is crucified as a threat to the Roman Empire, even though Pilate doesn't really believe it.

[19:22] And the Jewish people cry out when Pilate is trying to release him. We have no king but Caesar.

[19:34] It reminds of the parable in Luke chapter 19, when Jesus tells the parable of the king who goes away to receive his kingdom and he's going to come back.

[19:45] And he leaves his servants with finances and resources to do business until he gets back. But here's what happened. As he went away, the Bible says in Luke 19, 14, but the citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him saying, we do not want this man to reign over us.

[20:08] Here it is. We have no people of Caesar. We do not want this man to reign over us. Crucify him. We do not want this man to reign over us.

[20:20] There it is on the cross. The people are insulted. You dare say you're crucifying our king?

[20:33] This is what Paul says in 13 Corinthians 1, 22-24. Jews demand signs. We seek wisdom. But we preach Christ crucifying. What is it? A stumbling block to Jews and falling to Gentiles.

[20:49] To those who are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ, that's us by the way, Greeks, as it were, in Gentiles. Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God on the cross.

[21:01] When it says that the Jews is a stumbling block, that's where we get our word scandal from. It really meant a stick that triggers a trap for an animal.

[21:17] And to the Jews, the cross was a trap. They know anything but that. Scandal. It's a trap.

[21:28] It's a trick. We will never accept the fact that our king cursed. Because that's what was happening.

[21:40] Galatians 3.13, Christ removed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written, cursing is everyone who is hanging off a tree.

[21:52] That was in the Old Testament quote. The idea here is that if you were hung with a tree, and the cross is a symbolic of a tree, if you were hung with a tree, you were suspended from the earth, but yet not in heaven.

[22:07] It was like the earth didn't want you and neither did have you. And so they hung you up there, and that was pronounced a curse on you. But here's the thing, we've fallen under the curse of the law because we've broken God's law.

[22:23] The soul that sins, it shall die, the Bible says. All have sinned, all, and fall short of the glory of God. So we are under the curse of the law, the curse of the fall, we cannot escape, but then we see Jesus who became cursed for us, that we might become the children of God.

[22:53] How about applicants? Some applications. Some fuck. He's crucified for us. There's some fuck. Jesus turns our understanding of leadership upside down or really right side up.

[23:08] Leadership makes sacrifices for those who they leave in order to get both to the same good destination. Leaders in our world don't in general sacrifice for us.

[23:22] That's not the way we do things in the world, especially in America. Leaders get off the curts. Yeah. They get to go do parachute even when they lose their job.

[23:34] It's going to make millions those in that situation. But leaders don't die for us. Our human leaders don't do this. They don't see themselves as called to sacrifice for us, but leadership in the kingdom is different.

[23:50] In the kingdom of God, husbands leave their families in sacrifice. Wow. That's a good idea. I got to cry. Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself a firm.

[24:08] You want to be a husband in the kingdom of God? You want to leave a family? You want to care for a wife and children? Learn to die. Amen. Amen. We're not those guys who walk in and say, women, where are my feet?

[24:21] Where are my feet? Children, that's my feet. That's not us. That's the world. Husbands in the kingdom of God who have been, who've colored the cross of Christ lead by sacrifice.

[24:33] Yes, Lord. I'm not talking about that. Church officers lead in sacrifice. That's right. There was a few elders here on Friday evening making sure the tables and chairs were set up so you can enjoy it.

[24:48] Don't mean you shouldn't do it. Hello. But these men exemplify sacrifice. Even you who lead in the world, you lead in occupations, you're a manager, you're a boss of some sort.

[25:06] Will you lead in a Christ-like way by willing to sacrifice to your employees? Let me tell you something, you'll get their attention.

[25:17] That's right. Because they're not used to that. We don't lead the way the world leads. Sometimes, even in our evangelism, to lead people to Christ may call for us to sacrifice.

[25:32] But we involve things in Christ, who strengthens us, because he, our great king, sacrificed himself for us.

[25:43] Jesus, I have to look to the cross in order to lead him. Jesus, the king seven, is crucified as an helpless criminal.

[25:56] I mean, this is, this is, this blows my mind. 23 and 24, this is when his garments, remember, they stripped him. it was a four-man squad that crucified Jesus, and each guy was going to get pieces of his clothing.

[26:18] It was customary. This is nothing, nothing, different. But John gives us this detail about how they knew the clothing, the casting of lots, to see who would get his tuning, because there's one, there's an undergarment, this is an undergarment that he wore next to his skin.

[26:37] It was all one big piece, there were no seams in it, and they didn't want to tear it up, because it would be dead. So they said, okay, that's cast lots, that's rolled dice, if you want, to see who would get the tuning.

[26:51] Why has John given us this detail? I'd like to ask that question. Here's what I think. It shows the unhelplessness of Jesus.

[27:04] When they take your clothes, family, you're pretty helpless. If you can't keep someone from taking your clothes off your back, that's pretty helpless.

[27:21] It's important because Jesus has been showing so much control over his arrest. Remember, he's all down to hell. Remember, he's standing before the Jewish leader and he's holding his own.

[27:36] He gets to tell the party, you have no power here. You have no power to lead us to give people above. He's getting all this control. But now, now on the cross at this moment, he's helpless.

[27:56] We can't and the writer, John, makes it clear, this comes from the Old Testament. It's fulfillment of a prophecy. We'll talk more about that prophecy idea later, but I just want you to see this.

[28:08] It comes from Psalm 22, one of the most messianic prophecies. There is Psalm, there is because it so accurately portrays the agony of Christ's crucifixion.

[28:20] Do you know how it begins in verse one? My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Jesus will save us on the cross. John doesn't mention that, but he turns us to the close.

[28:33] David, who read that Psalm is surrounded by enemies. He's so beat down that he's so frustrated. He said, the dogs encompassed me.

[28:45] This is Psalm 22. He said, a company of evildoers encircles me. They have pierced my hands and feet. I can count all my bones.

[28:55] He's emaciated, he said. They stare and blow for me. They divide my garden among them, and from my clothing they cast lots. He hires his enemies to wild dogs who have picked his hands and feet.

[29:08] He feels weak and emaciated. He's staring at him. They see him as dead. They are speaking metaphorically. This is actually happening to Jesus.

[29:22] David helped! He had no way out. He felt they were tearing up.

[29:37] David lament. He is obvious. They cut out of his throat.

[29:49] They gloat over his ripped apart body. He's dying. People need that too. He'll be dead soon.

[30:01] He is not dead. Yet even in his helplessness God is in control over his right suffering.

[30:14] And this is often true to our suffering. We too are often truly helpless concerning our other suffering. If you can control suffering you never suffering.

[30:26] You have no control over your suffering usually. Sometimes our suffering includes losing things or people that we value. Suffering may include losing a car, a home, a child, a parent, a job.

[30:43] It all seems so wrong and it might be unjust at the hands of people or it could be just the proudest God of living in a falling world where evil happens to all people.

[30:57] But whether it's wrong or not, God has willed that happen so we can learn that he and what he gives us in Jesus are what we could never lose.

[31:15] I understand laws. I understand laws. And I want to say more of it. I'm sure I'd like so long. But I'm convinced more and more, brothers and sisters, that Jesus wants me to understand that there's some things I cannot lose, that which he's given me.

[31:37] I think Paul, what if that's to understand that too? 7 Corinthians verses 1, 8, 9. You know this passage. Paul has been, he's hurting, he's writing to the Corinthians, he's there, I've been beat down, he says, we do not want you to be unaware brothers of the affliction we experienced in Asia.

[32:00] For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we have received the sentence of death that are the following.

[32:12] This is the great apostle Paul. He's saying that whatever happened in Asia, it was involving probably mission work. Whatever because of an affliction, it was painful.

[32:23] He said it was so bad that he thought it was going to die. It's thought right death. And then he says something marvelous.

[32:41] He brings the good news in. He says it so beautifully that the reason for this happening but that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.

[32:59] Come on, y'all. He said, listen, the affliction, the suffering, the pain, the loss that I was experiencing, it wasn't for nothing.

[33:11] It was so that God could wean me off of the self-dependence. He could wean me off of depending purely on what people can do.

[33:23] Sometimes we don't get to do it ourselves, sometimes we defend a lot of people. They don't come through. They will. Praise God. Listen, God wanted the apostles to learn dependence upon him.

[33:42] And then Paul needed to learn reference to this thing. Kevin Smith. I put me in the I see you are simply. I know y'all better. I can stay.

[33:52] It's all good. That's what made us. Made us. Made us. We have to be made. We're resisting God dependence.

[34:04] We resist God dependence. We want to be self-dependent. We're Americans, although we're made. We're Americans. It's okay. They meant to that. But that means self-dependence.

[34:16] We're not on the Bible. Trust no one. You can do it. And yet God says, I'm not an American. That's right.

[34:27] Get out of the crap. I'm not an American. How would you learn to depend what you need? That's the approach of Christian grace throughout your life.

[34:39] You're learning more and more to depend who raises the dead. I love that phrase because he's telling me that whatever you're going through, I don't know how bad it is.

[34:51] It ain't worse than death. And even if you're going through death, guess what? I can raise the dead. I ain't going to you. Don't you fear. Don't get into fear and doubt.

[35:03] Be scared. No, I got you. Even if I need you, I can raise you. And he will raise us. We know trust in him.

[35:16] In the midst of your loss, realizing that you may feel helpless, but he's not. Amen. Okay, last time.

[35:28] I'm done. How much time is there? Only ten minutes. Only ten minutes. Last time. He's crucified Jesus the crucified to the Pharisee of the Messiah.

[35:43] Now, this is real, because you know what's happening. Everyone should prepare as well. In people's dying moments, you find that was really important. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[35:55] And I have been privileged to be beside me. Some of them have been in great pain. And I want to tell you, the pain occupied their hearts.

[36:09] When you're in excruciating pain, come on, there's some doctors out here, you know, all you think about is getting in a comfortable position so the pain can mess up.

[36:23] They can't have deep in-depth conversations with you. They're trying to get the pain somehow. Jesus is in excruciating pain on the cross.

[36:36] He can't, he can really breathe. Because that's how crucifixion works. You die of a physical nation, you can't breathe.

[36:47] So what happens is they put a board under his feet, they nailed him there, the board under his feet is under his hair. When he slumps, he can't breathe. So the prisoner would push up to expand their lungs take a breath.

[37:04] Jesus is in the midst of this. and in midst of this, he pushes off. Behold, woman, behold your son.

[37:17] Son, behold your mother. away from away from away from away from away from away away from never fail, not even here in his last moment he's not failing he's obeying the law, he's obeying God in love and care with family he's breasted after this body he's taking care of her, providing her now listen give the credit statements we were there too we're standing inside there and when Jesus pulls up to breathe it's like can you see you remember the Bible says our names are written on the palms of his hands on the nail scarred palms on his palms bleeding bloated, sweating agonizing palms your name is written in his palms

[38:42] I wonder if he as he slumps down and pulls himself up he says father here's your son freedom then he slumps again then he pulls up I wonder if he says father here's your daughter Becky then he slumps again and he raises up and he says father here here's your son Michael he's slumps again who can't breathe he's gonna pull up again father here's your daughter I'm wondering because the divine mind lives in Jesus yeah right he knew exactly he did not get his life for an undiscriminate mild people who may or may not come to believe in them right right he gave his life from specific people amen so that he knew they were coming yeah because he's dying for their sins so their sins cannot be held against them he's dying for actions who believe and actions cannot be held against us because they didn't pay for and count amen

[39:59] I'm done amen hallelujah fuck me I'm not I'm on.

[40:10] I just gotta apply this one more time. Because you see, his love is consuming him. His love for us is consuming.

[40:21] It's consuming him. For love saying, why hold him at the cross? You're not the male. It was love. That's right. And the Paul picks up on this. I gotta show you this. Thank you to this 5.15.

[40:32] For the love of Christ controls us. Because we have concluded this. That one has died for all. Therefore all have died. All will believe. All the things he died for. He died for all.

[40:43] That those who live, listen, those who live, might no longer live for themselves, but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

[40:57] The word control can be also said to me, compel. The love of Christ controls. Compelled. When you experience his all-consuming love that he demonstrated for you at the cross, when you are growing and knowing that love, it takes over.

[41:14] Because as Paul trips in, I agree. This can't show us the heart of sin. We live for ourselves. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[41:24] Yeah. Husbands and wives have so much trouble because they're living for themselves. Right. Right. You have trouble. You and your friends. You and your best friend.

[41:35] Don't get on the house. Why? Because one or both of you is living for themselves. Right. Right. That's the closest relationship breakdown across the world.

[41:48] We live for ourselves. We want what we want. As Tripp says, one of the things we forget is the major big ideal war in our lives.

[42:00] It's not a war with things outside of us. It's the war that still waits in silence. Amen. In every situation, vocation and relationship in our lives, there's a war for the control of our hearts.

[42:14] Yes. Yes. The cross, the grace of God at the cross liberates you from you. Amen. Amen. I love the truth.

[42:29] Will we live for ourselves, reducing life down to the small confines of our wants, our feelings, our needs, our demands, our expectations, and so on, or will we live for Christ?

[42:42] Yes. Would you allow that love to consume you? for that through you he might truly show you that it means to live no longer for yourself, not even for your neighbor for a second.

[43:03] First of all, for him. You don't love our neighbors. That's how I put you here. You're wrong. First command, we love God. Let me get the word wrong.

[43:15] you're ready to call me. Amen. Amen. Because we all were born and through it.

[43:29] We're going to live on the cross. Right. And then we have to cross for that privilege. And we're still the cross. Every day, when you walk with Christ, when you hold this cross, recognizing that your sins were laid upon him.

[43:46] You're the criminal. Amen. You're the criminal. Yes. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you. Cross and say, I love you. Don't take the head out of him. And I want to turn my back on you.

[43:59] And I want you to live for me. Give your limits to you. And that pops up. It pops up. Yeah, pops up. Sandy, you're living for me, girl. Jesus has to say, slow down.

[44:15] God, amen. Who you are? You are being consumed by the love of Christ. Please help us.

[44:28] Please not. He's got you. When you submitted today, was it everything to that next is love?

[44:40] He won't beg you God. He won't beg you God. He won't beg you. Father, beg your word and may it pull down deep in our souls.

[44:53] May we give ourselves to Jesus each and every day. Remember what it means God to live for ourselves and for our safe God. May we walk in the midst of life.

[45:08]  Jesus.