S1: Today on bold steps, Mark Jobe reveals why no amount
S1: of good works can pay the price for our sins
S1: and points us to the one who already has.
S2: There's no penance. There's no pilgrimage that you can kneel
S2: on and beat your back to. Try to pay for
S2: the sins that you've committed. You could spend years and
S2: years flogging yourself, and still it would not pay. There's
S2: one who's paid the price. And his name is Jesus.
S1: Welcome to Bold Steps with Mark Jobe, president of Moody
S1: Bible Institute and senior pastor of New Life Community Church
S1: in Chicago. I'm Wayne Shepherd. Yesterday, we began exploring the
S1: profound meaning behind Good Friday and why the death of
S1: Jesus was necessary for our salvation. Mark explained that there
S1: was no other way. If we could have saved ourselves.
S1: Jesus would never have needed to come to earth. Today
S1: we'll discover more about the price that was paid and
S1: what it means for us now. If you missed part
S1: one of this powerful Easter message, you can find it
S1: at Bold Steps. Now let's join Mark Jobe as we
S1: continue our lesson titled Why Do they Call it Good Friday?
S2: In Hebrews says, having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into
S2: the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new
S2: and living way which he has consecrated for us through
S2: the veil, that is to say, his flesh. So hear
S2: me well. That's why we no longer practice what they
S2: practiced in the Old Testament. There's no altar behind the
S2: screen where we sacrifice lambs. Hello. There's no slaughterhouse. There's no.
S2: The Bible says without shedding of blood, there is no
S2: remission of sin. Ever since Jesus died, the church has
S2: stopped sacrificing because the perfect sacrifice has been sacrificed. God himself.
S2: God himself died on that cross. And when he died
S2: on that cross, he carried shame, guilt, rape, bigotry, selfishness, lying, adultery, murder.
S2: He carried it upon himself, the sins of humanity. And
S2: he said, it's paid in full. And what? Listen, what
S2: Jesus has said now is that you have access to
S2: the father, but you have to receive the gift. The
S2: gift is offered. It's free, but it has to be received.
S2: And that's why Jesus talked about It is by grace
S2: that you've been saved through faith, not of yourselves. This
S2: is a gift of God, lest anyone should boast. Even
S2: though the gift is offered to everybody, not everybody has
S2: received that gift. The gift is offered. It's free. The
S2: lamb has shed his blood. But when you come to
S2: the lamb, you have to come in faith. And you
S2: have to say. I can't save myself. I'm not the
S2: ruler of my life. I need you to save me.
S2: To be my Lord. To be my Savior. I need
S2: to follow your way. The Bible says that then we
S2: die to ourselves and live to God. That's the way
S2: of Jesus. It's the way of the cross. Good Friday,
S2: we celebrate the way of the cross. If you're here
S2: and you don't know Jesus, you've never received that gift.
S2: It all feels curious. Strange. Unattainable. Unreachable. If you're here
S2: and you know Jesus. It's the breath that makes you breathe.
S2: It's the feeling that gives life to you. It's the
S2: passion in your praise. It's the strength in your life.
S2: It's the power of the resurrected Jesus living within you.
S2: And Jesus knew that he was going to die. But
S2: he also knew that he would raise again on the
S2: third day. If he would have died and never rose,
S2: people would have said, well, he was a good teacher,
S2: martyred by the Romans. Why was Jesus able to rise?
S2: The Bible tells us that, theologically speaking, the Speaking. The
S2: power of death is sin. Before there was sin, there
S2: was no death. Sin brought death into the world. Jesus
S2: was sinless. Therefore, sin had no power to hold him down.
S2: And so on the third day, he rose. People saw
S2: him and talked with him. Not metaphorically. Rose. He physically rose,
S2: testified by hundreds of people that had seen him die,
S2: that had seen him buried and then had seen him alive.
S2: One of the most testified events in ancient history. Witnesses
S2: that saw him, touched him, talked with him, knew it
S2: was Jesus the Christ. His disciples who saw him die
S2: and then rise again. They were willing to die themselves
S2: for the message that they had seen. There was no
S2: ambiguity about the resurrection of Jesus. They were certain this
S2: was Jesus the Christ. They had lived with them for
S2: three years. They knew who Jesus was. They knew his
S2: voice and his image, and they talked with them when
S2: he rose. They knew this is the man that died
S2: and rose again. He is the Messiah, the son of
S2: the living God. We celebrate an act that Jesus. Instituted.
S2: We call it the Last Supper. But it started hundreds
S2: of years before the Jewish people called it the Passover.
S2: A practicing Jew still celebrate the Passover starting in a
S2: few weeks from now, and they have a whole ceremony
S2: around it. Part of that ceremony is a lamb's leg
S2: because they celebrate when a lamb was slaughtered. The last
S2: of the ten plagues. And if they put splattered the
S2: blood of the lamb on the door of their house,
S2: the angel of death that would kill their firstborn child
S2: would pass over. It had to be a lamb without blemish.
S2: Does that sound familiar? You see, it was predicting what
S2: was to come. There would be a lamb. His blood
S2: will save you from death. He's the firstborn of all
S2: of creation. And so the Jewish people celebrated the Passover.
S2: As they got ready to celebrate the Passover, Jesus gathered
S2: with his disciples, and he said, I'm going to put
S2: a twist on this. I will no longer be able
S2: to celebrate the Passover with you. This will be my
S2: last Passover with you, because I'm going to a place
S2: where you're not going yet. He called it the Last Supper,
S2: and he said, I want you to do this often
S2: as you remember me. The disciples didn't know what he
S2: was talking about. And by the way, how many of
S2: you have seen Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper? The painting.
S2: How many of you have seen that? Yeah, it's a
S2: great painting, but it's all wrong. When have you ever
S2: seen everybody sit on one side of the table, by
S2: the way? You know, you just. No one does that.
S2: By the way, they didn't sit on tables like that
S2: in the Jewish time. They actually reclined on the floor.
S2: They weren't all blonde and blue eyed either. They were Jewish,
S2: so they looked a lot different. There was no loaves
S2: of bread like Leonardo da Vinci's. That's French bread. They
S2: didn't have. They had unleavened bread, which is like crackers. Leonardo.
S2: Great painter, terrible theologian, terrible theologian. But the Last Supper
S2: that Jesus, he said, I want you to do this
S2: when I'm gone in remembrance of me.
S1: You're listening to Bold Steps with Mark job. Mark is
S1: pastor of New Life Community Church and president of Moody
S1: Bible Institute. And we'll continue today's message in just a moment.
S2: And I want to invite you to reach out, send
S2: me your testimony, your prayer request, your Bible question. We
S2: love to hear from our listeners, don't we, Wayne?
S1: Absolutely.
S3: The easiest way is going to our website bold steps.org
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S1: Sure. And there's a way you can call us on
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S1: in just a moment. But before I do, let's listen
S1: to Brenda, who called the line, and, uh. And she
S1: has a question for you. Mark.
S4: Hi. My name is Brenda. I live here in Indiana,
S4: and I just wanted to call in and thank you
S4: for your program. It is such an encouragement for me.
S4: I have been dealing with a lot of things over
S4: the last seven years of a health issue where I'm
S4: going to may need a lung transplant. And anyway, I
S4: was so discouraged in the beginning, but luckily my faith
S4: has kept me even though fear has tried to overtake me.
S4: But I just wanted to thank you for your programs.
S4: Even the finance. It's helpful for me not to focus
S4: on the what ifs and to look to God. And
S4: it's just such an encouragement how every day God's Word,
S4: whether it's I'm hearing it on the radio or I'm studying.
S4: God is so faithful and he puts us where we
S4: need to be. And I just want to be a
S4: faithful servant. At the beginning, I didn't know why I
S4: ended up with this disease. And. But now I really
S4: feel it's to bring honor and glory to God no
S4: matter what. He's here with me. He provides for me.
S4: And I am just incredibly thankful for all that you
S4: guys do. I did have a question. It was about
S4: the ten, ten, 80 and I couldn't figure it out.
S4: If you could give me any resources to look up,
S4: that would be great. But again, thank you so much.
S4: And I think that my husband and I are going
S4: to try to come up to your church on a
S4: weekend and hear you speak in person. It is just
S4: such an encouragement to me, and I just thank God
S4: for you and for the community of believers that you
S4: have there around you. And just pray that God would
S4: continue to bless your efforts there. Thank you so much.
S3: Well, Brenda, what an encouraging message. And I know that
S3: you're going through a hard time, but I love your perspective.
S3: I hear resilience in your voice, and I hear a
S3: woman that is facing a difficult time, but is facing
S3: it with faith and letting her faith overcome your fears.
S3: So wow, what a beautiful testimony.
S1: She mentions the ten 1080 card which is on our
S1: website and can be downloaded.
S3: Yeah.
S2: And so just to follow up on the ten 1080,
S2: it's a basically a simple thing to remember. We encourage
S2: people to think about saving 10% of their income. Giving 10%
S2: of their income and living off of the budget of 80%
S2: of their income. And it's just a little simple formula
S2: to remember. Hey, let's save, give and budget.
S1: There's a card you can put in your wallet or
S1: purse and it can be downloaded at bird-stamps.org. Just click
S1: on the resources tab and you'll find it there. The
S1: ten 1080 card. And by the way, Brenda called the
S1: number that you can also call and leave a story
S1: or a testimony or a question. And that number is (312) 329-2011.
S1: 312329 2011. Let's return to the message now. It's titled
S1: why do they call it Good Friday?
S2: We have these little for convenience sake, although it's not
S2: that convenient. Some of you are still trying to open
S2: it from last Sunday. You're. You're like, it must be
S2: my lack of faith. It must be something. But I
S2: can't get this thing open. So if you tear the
S2: top off, if your neighbor, if your neighbor is struggling,
S2: you can help them. And the top of that little
S2: cup is something that's called unleavened bread. Leaven in the
S2: Passover was always a symbol of sin. The Jewish people,
S2: before they ate the Passover, they would go throughout the
S2: house and they would clean the house to make sure
S2: there was no leaven. Leaven causes things to rise. It
S2: affects everything. A little leaven causes the whole loaf of
S2: bread to rise. And Jesus says, A little leaven in
S2: your life. It affects your whole life. So this is
S2: a time to examine our hearts and to make sure
S2: that there's not areas in our life that are contrary
S2: to God. So we examine Lord, is the area of
S2: sin in my life an area of disobedience? An area
S2: where I haven't submitted to you because I don't want
S2: that to affect me. So the Bible says, examine yourself
S2: before you partake of this. The bread symbolizes the body
S2: of Christ, and in just a moment we're going to
S2: partake of. This symbolizes the body that was broken on
S2: that cross for you and I. But take a moment
S2: and just examine your life and say, Lord, is there
S2: anything you're dealing with? Pride. Lust? Lying? Any area that
S2: I need to confess to you right now? God, Anything
S2: I need to get right, Lord. Just allow the Spirit
S2: of God to speak to you. Maybe you're here and.
S2: You've never surrendered your life to Christ. That's an act
S2: of obedience. Now, he took that bread and he said,
S2: this is my body broken for you. Do this in
S2: remembrance of me. And see, we partake of this unleavened
S2: bread that symbolizes the sinless body of Jesus, the sinless
S2: body of Jesus, broken on our behalf. And we partake
S2: of it in the name of the father, the son,
S2: and the Holy Spirit. And the Bible says that in
S2: the same way he took the cup, the fruit of
S2: the vine. This grape juice is red like blood. It
S2: symbolizes the blood of Jesus, that blood that dripped from
S2: his head, that blood that dripped from his hands, that
S2: blood that dripped from his feet. Blood symbolizes life. Jesus
S2: gave his life so that you and I could go
S2: into the Holy of Holies. Washed and clean. And so,
S2: as we drink of this cup, we say, thank you, Jesus,
S2: that you did it. We're extremely grateful. And so we
S2: partake of this cup in the name of the father.
S2: In the name of the son. In the name of
S2: the Holy Spirit. So as we close our time together
S2: on this Good Friday, good Friday. I remind you that
S2: this is good news for all people, that you may
S2: be here today and you say I'm unworthy of God. Yes,
S2: you are, and so am I. It's only the blood
S2: of Jesus that makes us worthy to go through the, the,
S2: the veil. But the veil is rent. You don't have
S2: to stand outside of that which is holy. You don't
S2: have to continue to live as someone that feels unclean.
S2: Because once you've come and been washed by the blood
S2: of Jesus, you have access into the Holy of Holies,
S2: not because of what you have done, but what has
S2: been done for you. You say, well, pastor, that seems
S2: too easy. Well, it seems easy, but the way of
S2: the cross is not easy because you give yourself to
S2: God and let him cleanse you. There's no nothing. There's
S2: no penance that you can do to cleanse yourself. You
S2: can't pray enough Hail Marys or Our Fathers to wash
S2: your sins away. You can't do that. It's washed only
S2: through the blood of Jesus. There's no penance. There's no
S2: pilgrimage that you can kneel on and beat your back to.
S2: Try to pay for the sins that you've committed. You
S2: could spend years and years flogging yourself, and still it
S2: would not pay. There's one who's paid the price. And
S2: his name is Jesus. But once you come to Jesus
S2: and you say, I come to you. Wash me, cleanse me.
S2: I choose to follow you. Then the Holy Spirit comes
S2: inside of you and you become a new person. And
S2: now your life follows a different way. It's the way
S2: of the cross. It's the way of Jesus. They called
S2: early Christians people of the way because they live different, countercultural.
S2: They live now by the beat of a different drum.
S2: They lived worshiping God in community. They lived. Their sexuality
S2: was submitted to God. Their words were submitted to God.
S2: Their lifestyle reflected God. They lived different. Walked different. Why?
S2: Because now they were people of the way. And as
S2: you come to Christ, it's free. Not cheap, but free.
S2: But your life isn't the same. You become a person
S2: of the way. Now he's your lord. Now he's your master.
S2: Now he. Now you. You follow and serve and seek him.
S2: People around you say, why are you so different? What's
S2: happened to you? And all you can say is. Yeah, yeah.
S2: It's because Good Friday happened and Easter happened. happen. That's
S2: what's happened to me. I've been touched by the power
S2: of the resurrection of Jesus the Christ, the son of
S2: the living God. And if you are a believer in
S2: Jesus already, if you've bowed your knee, surrendered your heart,
S2: allowed the Holy Spirit to come inside of you. You
S2: know what I'm talking about. If you have not yet
S2: taken that step, then you need to. And maybe, just maybe,
S2: God has allowed my voice to come into your life
S2: right now. Because that vacuum that you sense, that emptiness
S2: that you feel, that longing that is drawing you, is
S2: God himself saying, you need to surrender to me. And
S2: so if you've never surrendered your life to God, if
S2: you've never taken that step of professing Jesus as your
S2: Savior and your Lord. Then on this Good Friday, I
S2: think it's a good time to do that. So I
S2: just want to stop right now and this season that
S2: we celebrate the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus to
S2: lead you in prayer. And so if you are saying, pastor,
S2: I need God like that, then the Bible says, we
S2: believe in our heart, but we confess with our mouth.
S2: And so you need to believe that Jesus was all God,
S2: that he died on that cross to pay a price
S2: that you could not pay, and that he's Lord. And
S2: you need to profess him as your Lord and Savior,
S2: surrendering your life to him and saying, God, I will
S2: follow you. You don't have the power to do this
S2: on your own, but God gives you the power through
S2: His Holy Spirit. So pause right now with me and pray.
S2: Dear Lord, I know that I'm a sinner. God, I
S2: cannot save myself. I need you. And so today I
S2: surrender myself to you. I turn away from the way
S2: that I've been living. I repent, and in faith I
S2: ask Jesus the Christ to be the Savior and the
S2: Lord of my life. Wash me. Forgive me. And Lord,
S2: give me the power to be a transformed new person
S2: as I follow you with all my heart, soul, and body.
S2: I ask this in Jesus name. Amen.
S1: Amen. And if you just accepted Christ as your Savior.
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