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The Cross Changes Everything. · In the Stillness Podcast

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  Hey y'all, it's. Friendly thanks for joining me
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  on another episode on In the Stillness.
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  Happy. Friday, but not just any.
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  Friday. Today is good.
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  Friday and this day is honestly. Really weighty it's.
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  Intimate and it's. Super sacred, so it was.
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  On my. Heart to press.
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  Pause from first John today and to.
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  Just sit with the cross. What Jesus did, Who he really?
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  Is and what that means? For how we Live Today so we're.
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  Going to be reading. Through Isaiah 53.
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  And I just want to encourage you.
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  As I read it. Don't rush.
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  Past it, truly. Let God.
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  Meet you where you are. And let these.
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  Words really take. Meaning in your heart.
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  I'm just going to read through the whole thing.
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  It's a little long, but it is so important starting in verse one.
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  Who has truly? Believed our revelation to whom?
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  Will Yahweh reveal? His mighty arm.
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  He sprouted up. Like a tender plant before the
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  Lord. Like a.
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  Root in parched. Soil.
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  He possessed no distinguishing beauty or outward splendor.
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  To catch our. Attention.
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  Nothing special in his appearance to make us desire
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  him. He was despised.
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  And rejected by men. A man.
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  Of deep sorrows. Who was no stranger to suffering
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  and grief. We hid our faces.
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  From him in disgust and considered him a nobody not.
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  Worthy of respect yet. He was the one who.
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  Carried our. Sicknesses and endured the
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  torment of our sufferings. We viewed him as one who was
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  being punished for something he himself had done, as one who was
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  struck down by. God and brought low but it was
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  because of our rebellious deeds that he was pierced, and because
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  of our. Sins.
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  That he was crushed, he. Endured the punishment that made
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  us. Completely whole.
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  And in his wounding, we found our healing.
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  Like wayward sheep. We have all wandered astray.
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  Each of. Us has turned from God's path
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  and chosen our own way. Even so, Yahweh.
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  Laid the guilt of our. Every sin upon him.
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  He was oppressed. And.
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  Harshly mistreated still. He humbly submitted, refusing to
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  defend himself. He was led like a.
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  Gentle lamb to be. Slaughtered like a silent sheep
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  before his shearers. He did not even open his mouth.
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  By. Coercion and with the perversion
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  of. Justice he was.
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  Taken away, and who could have imagined his future?
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  He was cut down in the prime of life for the rebellion of his
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  own. People he was.
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  Struck down in their place, they gave him a grave among
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  criminals, but he ended up instead in a rich man's tomb,
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  although he had done no violence nor spoken deceitfully, even
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  though it. Pleased Yahweh to.
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  Crush him with. Grief he will be restored to
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  favor after his. Soul becomes a guilt offering.
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  He will gaze. Upon it, upon his many
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  offspring, and prolong his days, and through him.
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  Yahweh's deepest desires will be fully.
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  Accomplished after the great anguish.
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  Of his soul. He will see light and be.
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  Fully satisfied by. Knowing Him, the righteous One,
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  my servant, will make many. To be righteous because he.
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  Their sin. Bearer carried away.
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  Their sins so. I Yahweh will.
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  Assign him a portion among a great multitude, and he will
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  triumph and divide the. Spoils of victory.
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  With his mighty ones all. Because he poured out his
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  lifeblood to death. He was counted among the worst
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  of sinners. Yet he carried.
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  Sin's burden for many and. Intercedes for those who are
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  rebels. OK, I read.
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  That in the passion translation I.
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  Actually at my. Middle school memorized.
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  Isaiah 53. They had us recite it.
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  And it was in a different version so I was really wanting
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  to take it a. Different route, but it is so.
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  Wild to think. That that passage.
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  Was written hundreds. Of years before Jesus.
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  I think it was about 700 years, yet it describes him in.
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  Such detail, his life, his. Suffering and his.
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  Purpose for suffering. Even in the language, there's so
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  much depth. It says.
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  That he would come up like a root and that is referring to
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  the. Root of David.
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  The promised Messiah from David's line.
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  And it says. He came out of parched ground.
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  Which reflects both the spiritual.
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  Condition of Israel at the time they were coming out of
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  judgment. The Wrath.
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  Of God. And honestly it.
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  Also reflects the. Bareness of humanity.
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  Without Jesus, because. Nothing.
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  Fruitful grows apart. From Jesus Christ.
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  And what's crazy is. People missed him.
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  He didn't come how they. Expected.
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  How they had planned in their heads.
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  For a glorious. King, there was no beauty, no
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  outward. Glory, that was.
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  Screaming that name and it just reminds me.
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  God. Often works in ways that we
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  don't. Expect so.
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  The question is, are we in any way missing him too in our?
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  Everyday lives because we've already decided what he should
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  look like. I think this is something that
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  we should. Really sit with because.
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  His presence. Is with us everywhere we go by a
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  spirit and it's so easy to get. Caught up in?
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  Daily. Routine and schedule.
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  That we forget that He is right there with us.
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  Now this next part really hit me.
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  Jesus was described as a. Man of Sorrows familiar with
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  grief, pain, and rejection. Yet.
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  He was the most emotionally whole and healed man to ever.
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  Walk the earth He. Felt everything.
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  But he was not ruled by those things.
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  He didn't absorb the rejection as part of his identity.
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  He did not let the suffering define him.
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  And that is so important for us because Scripture clearly says
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  that our. Present sufferings are momentary
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  troubles. They cannot even.
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  Compare to the. Glory that's coming.
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  Jesus himself said take heart, for I have.
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  Overcome the. World.
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  So yes. Pain and suffering.
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  Is so real and we will face it. But it doesn't get the final say
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  and we. See so clearly.
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  In how he responded to suffering.
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  Isaiah says he was led like a. Like a lamb to the.
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  Slaughter. Yet he stayed silent.
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  Yo that. Silence was not weakness, That
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  was Jesus submitting. Fully to his father's will.
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  Even when it meant hardship and suffering.
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  So. That's the invite.
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  For us to. Not just to admire.
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  Jesus, but to follow. Him through surrendering our
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  will, our control, our expectations and believing.
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  That the father. 'S plan is far better than ours
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  when you. Look at the cross.
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  Like, truly dive. Deep into the wording and how
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  this is written, every single detail was intentional.
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  This was not random pain put on. Jesus, He was pierced for our.
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  Transgressions. What we did wrong?
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  He was. Crushed for our iniquities.
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  Our willful, purposeful. Rebellion.
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  Everything intentional or unintentional.
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  Was completely covered. By his suffering, this stripes
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  on his back. That was for our healing, both
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  physical and emotional. And y'all this is crazy.
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  Think about the crown of thorns that they placed on his head.
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  Thorns did not even exist before sin entered the world in the
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  Garden of Eden. So that is.
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  Representing the curse that fell on mankind.
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  So Jesus literally took the. Curse on our minds from the
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  devil. Fear, anxiety, lies so that we
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  could be. Free from them.
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  Another thing I thought was so. Powerful.
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  So the Hebrew. Understanding of healing.
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  Here is actually. Tied to another word that means
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  joined or made. Whole so his.
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  Wounds. They're not just to patch.
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  Us up. It's not a band.
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  Aid they actually. Bring us into union with the.
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  Father. So this is I.
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  Believe in urging for. All of us.
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  To come into agreement with the healing that you have been given
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  freely. Don't speak death over yourself.
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  Don't come into agreement with. Lies or anxiety?
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  Or broken identity. Speak life, Proverbs, says the
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  power. Of life and death is in the
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  tongue. So how you speak over yourself?
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  And over others is so much more significant than you probably.
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  Realize because of Jesus. Healing is not just something
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  that we're begging for, it's something that we get to step
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  into by faith and something even deeper.
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  When it talks. About knowledge, there's another
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  connection with the wording to the idea of experience.
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  It's tied to the word sweat. Like what?
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  Jesus. Experienced in the Garden of
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  Gethsemane and. Drops of blood.
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  Sweating on the cross. So through what?
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  Jesus endured. We gain a knowing or a
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  revelation. That actually heals us y'all
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  this is. Transformation.
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  It's not. Just passive information.
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  That we're reading and I love this point of view.
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  Light in life came through his suffering.
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  So what looked like defeat? Actually became resurrection
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  new. Life, victory and.
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  I think that that is such a motivation for us.
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  Because. No matter what suffering trial.
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  Hardship that you're. Experiencing right now in this
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  life, it's not the end of your. Story because there's.
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  Coming a day when we will. Fully wake up.
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  To new life. To light.
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  Into heaven's reality. Just as Jesus did after he died.
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  And woke up to that new light when he walked out of that tomb.
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  So don't lose heart. Don't be discouraged, Jesus.
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  Did not just. Die for you.
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  He died as. You let that.
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  Sit for a. Second, his.
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  Death dealt with. Sin within you.
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  His burial just put it to the grave.
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  It's. In the ground, his resurrection.
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  Brought. You into new.
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  Resurrected life. So sin is not your identity
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  anymore, Yes. There is grace.
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  When we fall, when we fail. But continuing in sin is not
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  God's design for our life. You have been made new in.
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  Jesus. And because of all of this.
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  We now have. Access to the.
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  Father, we're not distant. There is no.
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  Fear we don't. Have to even wonder if.
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  God is against us. It says clearly in Romans 8 that
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  God. Is for us so we have peace with
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  God and real peace. Looks like confidence because
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  you know his heart. Toward you is.
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  Good and pure and faith in his. Blood that.
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  Is what draws you near. It's not about feelings.
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  And honestly, we have no. Excuse to reject.
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  Him, the people in Isaiah's time, years and years.
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  Prior to Jesus, actually. Coming on this earth, they did
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  not have the full. Picture that we.
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  Have now. They had prophecy, but we.
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  Can now look back and see the cross, the resurrection, and all
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  of the. Other.
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  Prophecies being fulfilled in our lifetime.
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  So the. Question then becomes.
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  Is he? Actually, the point of your
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  life. Because he.
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  Is the reason that you're breathing.
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  He's the reason that. You are alive.
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  And free from sin. So I know that's a.
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  Lot but today with it. Being Good Friday, let's not.
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  Rush past this. Let these words.
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  And these revelations change you from the inside.
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  Out. Ask yourself.
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  How am I responding to this? Radical.
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  Sacrificial. Incomparable.
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  Kind of. Love every.
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  Single day, so I'm going to close this out in prayer really
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  quick. Dear.
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  Jesus, thank you. For the cross.
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  Thank you that you. Were.
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  In every single. Detail, Father.
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  Nothing was wasted. It is.
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  Through your suffering. That you brought us life.
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  That you brought us. Healing and that we step into
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  fellowship and union with you. Jesus, would you teach us to
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  trust the Father's will like. You did to submit.
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  Teach us to. Walk in the fullness of what?
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  You have already offered us. I pray that we.
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  Would come into agreement with. Truth that we would speak life
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  over ourselves, over others. And that we would live from the
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  reality. Of what you have already.
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  Accomplished, we remember. You today we.
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  Just thank. You all we.
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  Can say is thank you. We pray this in your name Jesus.
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  Amen. OK y'all, I know that was a
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  longer one. But I really.
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  Did want to sit with that passage and just go?
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  Through it. And go into the details.
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  Of it 'cause it is. So so important and not
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  something to just skim past, but I'm praying for you guys that
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  you would enjoy. This Good Friday.
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  And that. You would just.
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  Experience. How much?
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  The father has lavished his. Love on us and learn to.
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  Receive it. And therefore.
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  Overflow and give it to others. I will see y'all on the next
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  pod.