Darkness Descends on the Light - Part II Matthew 26:30-27:26

Eureka Baptist Church

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March 5, 2023

00:04: Last week we looked at verses 30 through 46 of Matthew 26 in these verses
00:12: Jesus told his disciples That when he was arrested all of them were going to abandon him
00:20: He told them this not long after he had told them that one of them was going to betray him and that of course was
00:25: Judas But the disciples of Jesus would not come out of the last two days of Jesus life squeaky clean
00:34: They themselves would fail in their friendship to Jesus while their sin would not rise to the level of betrayal like Judas they would all
00:43: Deny him in different ways Most would abandon him by fleeing the scene and not being seen at the trial with him
00:52: Well one of his disciples Peter would deny Jesus three times This is what Jesus told his disciples in the text we had one week ago
01:02: After Jesus had this conversation he went with his disciples to the Garden of Gethsemane as He was there.
01:08: He took three of his disciples that this inner circle Peter James and John To a place where they would pray
01:17: Jesus told them to stay awake and not give in to the temptation to sleep, but to pray
01:24: But they did repeatedly fall asleep and Jesus rebuked them But this was not the focus of the section the focus was the anguish that Jesus experienced as he considered what was to come upon him he knew that he needed to bear the sins of the world and As he bore the sins of the world the wrath of his father
01:49: Would be poured out upon him This was what he dreaded more than anything we talked about this everybody has a great fear in life people have phobias
02:00: Sometimes it's interesting to ask someone. What's your greatest fear? Jesus greatest fear was being
02:06: Separated from the blessing of his father from all eternity Jesus experienced his blessing with his father
02:13: But when he would go to the cross for the first time ever as he took the sins of the world upon him
02:20: He would experience the displeasure of his father so as he's in the garden of Gethsemane.
02:26: He's in anguish if he anticipates This moment that is coming when he would experience the holy wrath of his father
02:40: During the last night and the day that followed Jesus would experience all sorts of difficulty
02:47: Last week we saw These two abandonment from his closest friends and Jesus facing the reality that the wrath of his father was about to come upon him
02:58: So this is our big idea for this long sermon It's taking three Sundays to get through last
03:04: Sunday was the first Sunday Today's the second and the next Sunday will be the third Sunday for this sermon
03:10: So we've seen the first two ways how? You are to know That Jesus experienced enormous difficulty even before he went to the cross and Today, we're going to see the third way how and that is this
03:26: And if you don't have an outline you can write this down somewhere But there is an outline in your bulletin the third way how you were to know that Jesus experienced enormous suffering even before the cross
03:37: Is by giving himself over Into the hands of evil men Giving himself over into the hands of evil men
03:45: So as we continue our sermon series through Matthew, I encourage you to turn with me to Matthew 26
03:52: And if you don't have a Bible with you, we do have those red Bibles in the pews And Matthew is the first book of the
03:58: New Testament And so you can find it there The sermon is once again titled
04:06: Darkness descends on the light Darkness descends on the light and the third way how it once again is by giving himself over Into the hands of evil men
04:20: This is the third way how you were to know that Jesus experienced enormous suffering even before the cross
04:27: So once Jesus informs his disciples that they are going to abandon him and once Jesus and his disciples finished praying in the
04:33: Garden of Gethsemane This was the time when Jesus would be delivered into the hands of evil men
04:41: So we're gonna look at verses 47 through 56 today of Matthew 26 and we'll begin by reading verse 47
04:51: While he was still speaking that is Jesus Judas came one of the twelve and With him a great crowd with swords and clubs from the chief priests and the elders of the people
05:07: What verse 47 says is that as Jesus was telling the disciples that his betrayer was at hand the betrayer
05:14: Judas? Along with many men arrived in the garden to meet him
05:21: What verse 47 says is that along with Judas were a great crowd who were carrying swords and clubs?
05:28: and this great crowd is the end of verse 46 says were sent from the chief priests and the elders of the people
05:38: This account of Jesus arrest is described in all four Gospels Matthew Mark Luke and John This is also fascinating when reading the
05:48: Gospels There's so much overlap and each of the Gospels provides details that others do not which provides a fuller picture
05:57: The Apostle John gives us some more detail about this scene in John 18 3 where he writes
06:04: Judas having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the
06:11: Pharisees Went there with lanterns and torches and weapons So we get the an idea of what this would have been like as they're coming to arrest
06:21: Jesus so we learn That these are not just any men that Judas has brought to arrest
06:29: Jesus these are soldiers These are Roman soldiers and some of these are officers in the
06:36: Roman Army the Jews had soldiers who patrolled the central place of worship in Jerusalem, which was the temple so it's right to assume that these are the soldiers that are coming to arrest
06:50: Jesus as They approach him we learned something in verse 48 about the plan that Judas had put forth
07:02: Now the betrayer had given them a sign saying The one
07:07: I will kiss is the man sees him What we learned is that Judas had given the officers and the band of soldiers a signal so that these men knew the identity of Jesus What he looked like Now you would think that everyone at this point
07:25: Would have known what Jesus looked like as he was the most popular man in this region during this time
07:32: We've seen this in Matthew Thousands and thousands of people were following him
07:38: John Lennon once said when the Beatles were at the height of their fame that were more famous than Jesus And that's which isn't true, but what he was saying is
07:50: Jesus if we're going to talk about the person who had more fame than anybody in the history of the world it is Jesus Tens of thousands of people would follow him wherever he would go, and this is why he would go to pray
08:01: He would he needed privacy. He needed to get away from the crowds that were always coming to him
08:10: So Judas tells these officials these officers these soldiers I'm gonna give it
08:16: I'm giving you a sign so that you know Who the man is who is going to be arrested and apparently some of them had never seen
08:23: Jesus Which is true and not everybody would have known what he looked like most of the people probably did but not everyone would have known
08:32: So the sign here is that he is going to kiss Jesus now kissing people that you need is thankfully something we're not familiar with in our day
08:43: But this was commonplace in the ancient world in Several letters the Apostle Paul commanded the churches that he wrote to to greet one another with a holy kiss literally, right?
08:58: To greet with a kiss was something you did as a friendly gesture as you greeted someone It would be like a handshake or maybe a hug in our day so let's see this play out in verse 49 and He came up to Jesus.
09:13: That's Judas at once and said Greetings rabbi
09:19: And kissed him Think about this Judas is in the process of betraying
09:27: Jesus and yet it is insulting that he greets Jesus and calls him rabbi
09:33: Which was a Jewish way of saying teacher and then he does the friendly greeting gesture of kissing him
09:41: He's showing these nice gestures, but because of what he is doing to Jesus here, it's actually insulting
09:49: It goes without saying that Judas does not love Jesus He is delivering him into the hands of evil men
09:59: When we talk about loving someone, it's not just showing it. It's not just saying you love someone
10:05: It's not just affection that you have for someone. It's Action true love always involves action
10:14: What we have seen in recent weeks is Where Judas's true love is?
10:25: What Judas loved more than anything was money What we have learned from the
10:30: Gospels is that Judas was in charge of the money bag and regularly helped himself to it
10:36: Judas's love for money led him to approach the Jewish leadership about turning Jesus over to them in private
10:44: Judas knew the places that they met where they spent time together
10:51: And one of those places was the Garden of Gethsemane The last place that Jesus was before he was taken away
11:00: Judas knew that the Jewish leadership wanted to arrest Jesus and kill him So he came up with the plan to turn
11:07: Jesus over to them in private where they would Pay him and so he presented this to them and they agreed they would pay
11:15: Judas 30 pieces of silver This is a great deal. Both parties get what they want Judas wants money.
11:22: They want to arrest Jesus in private And so they come together and work out a deal and The the amount of money that was agreed upon was 30 pieces of silver
11:36: And once again 30 pieces of silver from the book of Exodus in the Old Testament Was the price a master would pay for a slave?
11:46: So the fact that Judas was willing to give Jesus up for 30 pieces of silver shows us that Jesus meant nothing
11:55: His true love was money. So as Judas approaches
12:00: Jesus He calls him a rabbi And he kisses him But Jesus is not fooled by this
12:08: In a parallel account in Luke chapter 22 verse 48. Jesus says Judas Would you betray the
12:15: Son of Man with a kiss? Jesus is not impressed by Judas's kind gesture
12:24: Judas is betraying Jesus and how insulting it is as he shows this false respect to him
12:31: In our day we see this false respect shown all the time You hear godless government officials say all the time
12:39: God bless America when Officials in Congress are sworn into office
12:48: They swear to uphold the Constitution. What do they swear by? Bible they never read the
12:56: Bible But they swear on the Bible And they haven't heard the
13:01: Constitution by the way, too, but this is the sign mark What God wants is a pure and sincere heart
13:10: He wants us to mean what we say and do If Judas truly loved
13:17: Jesus, he would never even think of betraying him 30 pieces of silver would mean nothing to him
13:25: Imagine someone coming up to you And saying I'll give you a million dollars
13:32: If you betray someone That money means nothing to me what means to what means to me
13:44: It is this person whom I love who I will never turn my back on But Judas does that to Jesus here
13:51: So Jesus he would have received this this kind gesture of greeting and kissing him
14:01: He would have received this if he knew it was sincere, but he knows it's not sincere And so he says to him would you betray the
14:10: Son of Man with a kiss? But after Jesus says this
14:16: Jesus does something to Judas that he does not deserve That Judas does not deserve
14:21: He shows kindness to Judas This is remarkable the first half of verse 50
14:28: Jesus said to him friend Do what you came to do
14:35: This is remarkable What Judas does to Jesus here is the ultimate betrayal?
14:42: Jesus only ever did Judas good and Jesus only ever did anyone he came into contact with good
14:54: Yet Judas is turning Jesus over to the vilest of people the corrupt
15:02: Jewish leadership But even though Judas is doing this to Jesus Jesus calls him friend
15:11: Now the Greek word for friend that Jesus uses here is not the word used for the closest of friends
15:17: But one used as kindness toward an acquaintance Jesus uses this word for a friend in Matthew 20 13 and Matthew 22 12 when he rebukes two different men when they are in the wrong
15:33: But Jesus uses a different Greek word when he is talking to those who are really his friends
15:40: In John chapter 15 verses 13 to 15 he uses the Greek word for friend which describes closeness and affection and There he's describing his disciples
15:53: But even though he does not use the Greek word for close friends He is still being kind to Judas by using the word for friend that conveys respect to an acquaintance
16:03: Judas did not deserve this kindness, but Jesus shows this to him anyway As Judas betrays
16:11: Jesus Jesus would have experienced the pain of such great betrayal He spent three and a half years with this man.
16:20: It wasn't just that they spent every once in a while together. They would have spent Just about every day together probably every day
16:27: We don't know exactly if they were together every single day But you get the idea that Jesus and his disciples were with each other all the time and yet Judas Turns Jesus Judas he turns
16:43: Jesus over to these evil men for 30 pieces of silver Betrayal and friendship truly breaks the heart of the one who is betrayed there are stories of great betrayal down through history
16:58: In the 1930s there was a New Testament scholar by the name of J. Gresham Machen This man is a very significant person in the history of American Christianity in the 20th century what people don't understand is that the
17:14: Ivy League schools were once a bastion of conservative
17:19: Christianity schools such as Harvard Yale and Princeton existed in large part to train
17:28: Christian ministers These Ivy League institutions which started in the 16th and 17th 1700s
17:36: Were one by one abandoning the Bible and becoming liberal institutions
17:42: All the Ivy League schools fell to liberalism, but there was one remaining in the early 20th century and that was
17:50: Princeton in New Jersey At this institution J. Grisham mentioned was professor of New Testament What sadly happened is that Princeton followed the other
18:01: Ivy League schools and finally succumbed to liberal Worldly ideas and since Machen was a
18:09: Bible -believing Christian. He could not stay So he started a new seminary in Philadelphia called
18:15: Westminster Machen endured huge battles fighting for the
18:21: Bible Against people who called themselves Christians, but did not believe the
18:27: Bible at the end of Machen's life Friends whom he had for many years abandoned him because of the strong stands that he took
18:37: They did not stand with him in his fight against the liberal doctrine that was flooding in Christian institutions
18:42: And of course the poison eventually made its way into churches But Machen did and it came at a cost as he lost friendships
18:53: In late 1936 Machen became ill But he kept a promise that he made a long time before that To do a speaking engagement in of all places
19:05: Bismarck, North Dakota As he was in this location he fell very ill and he died alone
19:11: I remember one of my professors in seminary saying that more than anything
19:17: Machen died from a broken heart What we have been seen in the section of Matthew 26 is the heartache that Jesus is experiencing he experienced heartache from the reality that all of the disciples would abandon him and Now the heartache is that one of his disciples will sin against him in the severest of ways as Judas is delivering
19:42: Jesus into the hands of evil men So Jesus tells Judas friend
19:49: Do what you came to do and then the second half of verse 50 in verse 51 the author
19:57: Matthew tells us what happens this is what
20:04: Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him and behold one of those who with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and Struck the servants of the high priest and cut off his ear
20:19: So the soldiers lay their hands on Jesus and then one of his disciples moves into action We learn from the
20:26: Gospel of John in chapter 18 verse 10 who this disciple is it's
20:31: Peter He's the one who draws the sword and in our text in verse 51 we read that Peter cuts off the ear of one of the ones present
20:43: This one whose ear is cut off is the servant of the high priest and John 1810 says that this servant's name is
20:49: Malchus Now we might be tempted to think that we should be cheering at this point because one of Jesus disciples is standing up for Jesus Against those arresting him and Peter is showing his loyalty to Jesus here
21:06: I've explained the enormous abandonment that Jesus is experiencing here and about to experience when all the disciples flee but in this case
21:14: Peter is standing up for Jesus But Jesus does not come in here.
21:21: This is what Jesus says to Peter in verse 52 Then Jesus said to him put your sword back into its place
21:30: For all who take the sword will perish by the sword So Jesus rebukes
21:37: Peter What Peter is doing is taking things into his own hands Let's say a person has a loved one who is murdered
21:46: The amount of righteous anger that this person has toward the murderer is enormous
21:53: But it is not right to take the law into your own hands by ending that person's life
22:01: Romans 12 19 command believers beloved never avenge yourselves But leave it to the wrath of God for it is written
22:10: Vengeance is mine. I will repay says the Lord Christians are not to be vigilantes
22:18: The Lord will write every wrong at the final judgment Leave it to him
22:25: If Peter killed this man with the sword he too would be deserving of death because scripture supports the punishment of death for murderers
22:33: Now Genesis 9 6 says whoever sheds the blood of man by man shall his blood be shed
22:40: Then Jesus reminds Peter something in verses 53 and 54 Jesus says do you think?
22:50: that I cannot appeal to my father and He will at once send me more than 12 legions of angels
23:00: But how then to the scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so what is it that Jesus reminds
23:09: Peter? Jesus reminds him That him being arrested by sinful men is all a part of God's plan
23:20: Jesus told his disciples numerous times that he would be arrested and crucified The Old Testament predicted it
23:28: Jesus tells Peter that in a time of need He has the power to ask his father to send more than 12 legions of angels
23:39: To help him how much? In the
23:46: Roman military 6 ,000 soldiers was a legion if you do the math Twelve legions of angels would be the father sending
23:54: Jesus more than 72 ,000 angels to help him Pretty sure no human army especially this pitiful one arresting
24:02: Jesus Could do anything to overtake him if Jesus called to heaven for help
24:09: Actually one angel would probably do the job because one angel is more powerful Than thousands of humans, but he's saying
24:17: I can call Over 72 ,000 angels to help me
24:28: Jesus is not taking the easy way out. He never did if you want to be like Jesus don't take the easy way out
24:36: He never took the easy way out. He always took the hard way and you won't do it here
24:45: You won't take the easy way out here. There's only one way and that is the path to the cross
24:53: Jesus has given himself up to fulfill the plan of his father and as he says in verse 54 if He received help from heaven
25:02: Jesus said how then should the scriptures be fulfilled? Then it must be so The hard way for Jesus is the only way
25:13: As the God -man he knew the hard way he was to go down and he embraced it and he would do this for the salvation of sinners
25:21: Many Christians down through history have followed Jesus by refusing to live a life of ease and going in the hard way
25:29: This is the call of Jesus to anyone who will be his disciple as we have already heard Jesus say in Matthew 16 24
25:38: There Jesus said if anyone will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross And follow me for whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake
25:49: Will save it What he means is forsaking the world forsaking the devil
25:56: Forsaking the temptations of the world where the world says you can have anything you want you don't need
26:01: God Just go your own way. He's saying forsake that and Live life upstream because if you're a
26:08: Christian in this world, that's what life is And you think of the same forever It's gonna get fast real soon as the snow melts this ferocious river going downstream
26:19: That's the world The world gets on that tube and they go right down that river That's not what we do.
26:27: We go up. We're going against the flow of society. That's the way it is
26:32: It's hard. It's the hard road And Jesus set us the ultimate example in taking the hard road the soldiers of Jesus Christ Follow him down the hard path.
26:50: That's not am I a soldier of the cross? What you need to understand is that no biographies are written for those who take the easy way
27:01: There are no inspiring books about couch potatoes But the lives worth for Fred reflecting on are the ones where men and women made their lives count
27:14: One of these is a man from the 18th century by the name of David Braynor His life was one of taking the hard road for Jesus sake
27:22: Raynard wanted to be a pastor in his younger years. This was his dream
27:29: But an offhand comment caused him to be expelled from pastoral training at Harvard Remember I mentioned
27:35: Harvard was the bastion of Christian conservative Christianity. He went there to become a pastor
27:43: The offhand comments he made to one of his professors he said he has no more grace than this chair As you might imagine that didn't go well
27:51: It wasn't a great comment, but the punishment he received was probably excessive. He was expelled
27:58: And if you didn't graduate with a pastoral degree from one of the few colleges around at this time
28:04: One could not be a pastor When this unfortunate event happened his ministry dream died
28:11: His pastoral ministry dream that is But this was not the only problem that he faced
28:18: In his 20s, he also developed a condition which was the bane of this era tuberculosis
28:25: But even though his ministry dream died and he suffered from tuberculosis He did not fall into such a severe depression and do nothing with his life
28:34: In fact, he fought depression, but he pushed through it trusting the Lord He was forced down the most difficult path he could have imagined but he pressed forward
28:45: Instead of being a pastor He became a missionary and he became a missionary to Native Americans in the northeastern part of America that needed the gospel
28:54: And he experienced a fruitful ministry Over the few years that he poured himself into them for Christ's sake
29:03: His life was one where he had to go down the hardest path But he was faithful and his life was a short one a very short one at the age of 29.
29:13: He died of tuberculosis never married But just served the
29:18: Lord But his legacy lives on as his friend Jonathan Edwards a famous theologian from the 18th century gathered his diaries
29:28: That he wrote as a missionary and Edwards published these diaries in the book the life and diary of David Greiner The best -selling sold book of Jonathan Edwards This man's life is a story of taking the hard road for the sake of the gospel and the
29:46: Lord has used The difficult life of David Brainerd to bless many as they follow the
29:52: Lord Jesus in Different callings and the difficulties that come with those calls every calling that we have
29:59: Every press every person in this room has a calling to follow Jesus every calling that you have is going to have difficulty
30:07: And so we need heroes from the past To remind us of the
30:12: Lord's faithfulness heroes in the Bible And they're only heroes because the
30:18: Lord sustained him ultimately there is only one hero right the Lord But he sustains these people and he will sustain you as well in Jesus case.
30:30: He took the hardest road He is the Son of God But he did not call down more than 12 legions of angels to rescue him from the darkness
30:40: That was descending upon him he ran to the darkness He he gave himself up to the darkness
30:50: He knew he needed to face that darkness in order to earn the salvation of sinners
30:59: Now before Jesus is taken away. He has something to say to those arresting him Let's look at this in Verse 55 in the first half of verse 56 at that hour
31:11: Jesus said to the crowds Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to capture me day after day?
31:19: I sat in the temple teaching and you did not seize me, but all of this has taken place
31:24: That the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled
31:30: What Jesus told them is that he had been preaching in Jerusalem for a few years
31:36: Now and yet they did not arrest him as he preached he was right out in the open and They did nothing
31:44: But what Jesus tells them? Is that the Lord restrained them from arresting them as he told them once again in verse 56?
31:54: All this has taken place that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled
32:01: All of this happened according to God's plan But the suffering would happen in God's time and the type of suffering
32:08: Jesus experienced would fulfill the prophets He wouldn't be stoned to death on the grounds of the temple in Jerusalem as he preached
32:19: No, that's not that's not what the prophets said He would be arrested by the
32:26: Jewish leaders and Then delivered over to the Romans to be crucified
32:33: Psalm 22 pictures crucifixion Isaiah 53 pictures crucifixion
32:41: Zechariah chapter 12 and 13 Very vividly described his crucifixion because they will look on him whom they have pierced
32:52: Think about that Did you realize that? These prophecies from the
32:58: Old Testament were predicted before crucifixion was even invented
33:05: Eventually the Romans the Romans weren't the ones who in invented the crucifixion, but they were the ones who perfected it but when
33:13: Isaiah is Predicting the crucifixion of Christ. It wasn't invented when the psalmist is predicting the crucifixion of Christ It wasn't invented when
33:22: Zechariah is predicting the crucifixion of Christ. It wasn't invented This shows the supernatural nature of this book and let me just say this we must understand that without this book
33:35: We have no hope This is the Word of God this book right here and if we
33:42: Think we can find the truth any other way It will never end
33:48: It will never end the Bible has proven itself over and over and over again
33:54: We need to trust it. Most of the world doesn't know
34:02: We have this book And it predicts what's gonna happen. And and why would it how would it be able to do that?
34:09: Well because it comes from the one who knows the future God it's the Word of God So these prophecies predict the suffering of the
34:22: Messiah and Jesus is telling them These people who are arresting him and this is a message to those who are going to deliver him over to the
34:30: Romans, too He is telling them that their very tactics are fulfilling prophecy
34:37: We read that in Acts 4 today it was God's plan that the Jewish leaders are going to deliver him into the into the
34:44: Romans hands and He will be crucified and once Jesus said these things and was arrested
34:54: Matthew writes this at the end of verse 56 Then all the disciples left him and fled
35:02: Once again, the future is predicted just as he said Jesus predicted last week in verse 31
35:10: You will all fall away because of me this night his words Of course come to pass as the end of verse 56 says all the disciples left him and fled
35:22: Jesus knew what he needed to do He did not run He did not have his disciples fight back and in fact rebuked the one who did
35:34: He did not call more than 12 legions of angels to rescue to him. He did none of these
35:42: Rather he did the only thing he knew he needed to do because he knew He was the only hope for the world he gave him himself up to these evil men
35:55: Who arrested him because of what the cross means and we have a cross right here This cross is all over the place in our world.
36:03: What does the cross mean? He died in your place He is your substitute
36:11: He paid the full penalty for your sins And this is what everybody in this room needs to understand you cannot earn your own salvation
36:23: I've shared before that. You know, I recently had a conversation with someone who said yeah
36:28: I'm what I don't really believe the Bible. I don't believe those stories They're all made up Which is false, but this is what he was saying
36:40: But generally speaking he believes in God and he says, you know if there is a God I'm a good person I'm gonna be okay
36:46: That's what the devil wants you to believe because the person who believes that is going to hell And that's
36:53: Satan's mission. His mission is to bring as many people to hell with him. That's his mission
37:03: Why did Jesus go through all this? What is the whole meaning of the cross? It's not just that this guy just jumps off a bridge and tells people how much he loves them.
37:14: This doesn't make any sense He had to go to the cross because he had to be sacrificed
37:19: That's what the whole Bible is pointing ahead to the Old Testament The sacrificial system is pointing ahead to this once -for -all sacrifice that needs to take place
37:31: Jesus isn't running. He's not hiding. He's giving himself up for sinners.
37:38: He did it for you That's what it's about So know that Jesus experienced enormous
37:50: Suffering even before the cross His greatest suffering is still to come but even before the cross.
37:56: He's giving himself up. He's entrusting himself to his father He's setting himself up to be the sacrifice for sinners
38:05: And in this three Sunday sermon we have just seen the third way how the third way how Jesus experienced enormous suffering even before the cross the third way how is this by giving himself up Into the hands of evil men by giving himself over into the hands of evil men and we need to reflect on this
38:27: And next Sunday, we're going to see the fourth and fifth ways How you were to know that Jesus experienced enormous suffering even before the cross as we marched toward the crucifixion
38:41: But this time let's bow our heads in prayer father
38:49: What a wonderful God you are What a wonderful story that we all live in And life is a story of a
38:59: Savior and those who humble themselves realizing they need the Savior and Those who in pride that trust their own wisdom and go their own way.
39:10: Those are the ones who are in Who will be in hell one day and my prayer is that everyone here would humble themselves
39:17: Many have already and they follow Christ and they're in a good place and they belong to you forever and will never be snatched out of the hand of Jesus Christ But my prayer is that everyone in this room would be in that place
39:31: Would belong to your son Jesus Christ would have their sins paid for would have his righteousness credited as their righteousness
39:40: That's my prayer this morning and what a great Savior And for those of us who know
39:45: Christ to be reminded this morning What a great Savior that he gave himself up to the most vilest of men
39:54: Who are going to kill the innocent one the one who never sinned
40:02: So Lord apply this message to everyone right where they are in Jesus name.