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I heard this teaching on Good Friday and wanted to share. It can be found here in audio and transcript form.
https://focalpointministries.org/product/good-friday-2017/
Here's an excerpt:
It was certainly that day that Jesus walked across with his sleepy disciples in tow. Walked through the valley of the shadow of death. A valley that was constantly traversed by families carrying their deceased on their shoulders out to a funeral. A place with so much bad history in the Old Testament, a place that flowed with blood from time to time depending on the sacrifices that were executed in that bloody scene of the Old Testament reminding people that without the shedding of blood there’s no remission of sin. There’s a cost for your sin, the wages of sin is death and someone has to pay that. When John sees the Messiah, his theology is so clear in his mind he can say, “Here comes the Lamb of God.” The bloodshed will stop in terms of the picture and we will now have a cup that replaces it. There’ll be no lamb sacrifices, no bulls, no cows. You’re going to have the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. A once for all sacrifice as the writer of Hebrews says. One time suffering, as Peter says, as he walks through the most grievous shadow of death to say to his Father I’d like this cup to pass from me but I’m willing. And out of love for you and me he drank that cup of the Father’s anger down to the dregs. The cup of staggering. So that he could pass to his disciples two hours earlier a cup that he promises would be a cup of forgiveness. This little cup symbolizes that, this bread symbolizes the broken body on a cross that was broken for our forgiveness. Early translator of First Corinthians took that word translated “blessing” and often replaced it with the word “eucharisto,” the thanksgiving, the Cup of Thanksgiving. You can’t take it without being thankful that you get the favor because he took the guilt. So I hope tonight if you know that transaction and have experienced it you can with me with great and profound thanksgiving eat this bread and drink this cup. Let’s do that together.
God, we know if we’re real Christians here tonight how undeserving we are. Even for those of us, as you said to Peter, who have been washed we still get our feet dirty. We recognize in this world our stumbling and our frailties and we hate ourselves for it. And yet even the stumbling saints in that night that couldn’t stay awake and watch and pray with Jesus for an hour, Jesus was willing to walk back across the Kidron Valley to be tried before these courts of Caiaphas and Pilot and be hung on a Roman execution rack so that we could have the cup of blessing. Let us as this song has already been sung, let it be the kind of anthem for us that a love that is so amazing and so divine like that should demand our life, our soul, our all and while we fail so often God we aspire to that. To give you our all, to live for you, to respond to you no matter how difficult it is, no matter how much hostility we receive from our culture, our world we will stand with you in great thanksgiving knowing one day that we will celebrate in this great memorial, this cup, one last time in the kingdom when we see you face to face. God we look forward to that day when sin and death and pain and mourning is all behind us because you’ve conquered the victory for us by drinking the cup of God’s wrath so that we could be blessed. For that God we’re so grateful and I pray we be even more grateful because we spent time here together tonight. In Jesus name. Amen
https://focalpointministries.org/product/good-friday-2017/
Here's an excerpt:
It was certainly that day that Jesus walked across with his sleepy disciples in tow. Walked through the valley of the shadow of death. A valley that was constantly traversed by families carrying their deceased on their shoulders out to a funeral. A place with so much bad history in the Old Testament, a place that flowed with blood from time to time depending on the sacrifices that were executed in that bloody scene of the Old Testament reminding people that without the shedding of blood there’s no remission of sin. There’s a cost for your sin, the wages of sin is death and someone has to pay that. When John sees the Messiah, his theology is so clear in his mind he can say, “Here comes the Lamb of God.” The bloodshed will stop in terms of the picture and we will now have a cup that replaces it. There’ll be no lamb sacrifices, no bulls, no cows. You’re going to have the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. A once for all sacrifice as the writer of Hebrews says. One time suffering, as Peter says, as he walks through the most grievous shadow of death to say to his Father I’d like this cup to pass from me but I’m willing. And out of love for you and me he drank that cup of the Father’s anger down to the dregs. The cup of staggering. So that he could pass to his disciples two hours earlier a cup that he promises would be a cup of forgiveness. This little cup symbolizes that, this bread symbolizes the broken body on a cross that was broken for our forgiveness. Early translator of First Corinthians took that word translated “blessing” and often replaced it with the word “eucharisto,” the thanksgiving, the Cup of Thanksgiving. You can’t take it without being thankful that you get the favor because he took the guilt. So I hope tonight if you know that transaction and have experienced it you can with me with great and profound thanksgiving eat this bread and drink this cup. Let’s do that together.
God, we know if we’re real Christians here tonight how undeserving we are. Even for those of us, as you said to Peter, who have been washed we still get our feet dirty. We recognize in this world our stumbling and our frailties and we hate ourselves for it. And yet even the stumbling saints in that night that couldn’t stay awake and watch and pray with Jesus for an hour, Jesus was willing to walk back across the Kidron Valley to be tried before these courts of Caiaphas and Pilot and be hung on a Roman execution rack so that we could have the cup of blessing. Let us as this song has already been sung, let it be the kind of anthem for us that a love that is so amazing and so divine like that should demand our life, our soul, our all and while we fail so often God we aspire to that. To give you our all, to live for you, to respond to you no matter how difficult it is, no matter how much hostility we receive from our culture, our world we will stand with you in great thanksgiving knowing one day that we will celebrate in this great memorial, this cup, one last time in the kingdom when we see you face to face. God we look forward to that day when sin and death and pain and mourning is all behind us because you’ve conquered the victory for us by drinking the cup of God’s wrath so that we could be blessed. For that God we’re so grateful and I pray we be even more grateful because we spent time here together tonight. In Jesus name. Amen
