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WARREN WIERSBE | AUDIO BIBLE STUDY | 7 LAST WORDS FROM THE CROSS | PART 7 | "SUBMISSION" | AES | Alpha English Sermons | YouTubeToText
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foreign [Music]
I read the word of God from Luke chapter
20. 3
beginning at verse 44
and concluding with verse 56 the death
and the burial
of our savior
and it was about the sixth hour and
there was a Darkness over all the Earth
until the ninth hour
and the sun was dark and in the veil of
the temple was torn in the midst
and when Jesus had cried with a loud
voice he said father into thy hands I
commend my spirit
and having said this he gave up the spirit
spirit
now when the Centurion saw what was done
he glorified God saying certainly this
was a righteous man
and all the people that came together to
that site beholding the things which
were done smote their breasts and returned
returned
and all his acquaintances and the women
that followed him From Galilee stood
afar off beholding these things
and behold there was a man named Joseph
a counselor and he was a good and
righteous man the same had not consented
to the council and deed of them he was
of Arimathea a city of the Jews who also
waited for the kingdom of God
this man went on to pilate and begged
the body of Jesus
and he took it down and wrapped it in
linen and laid it in a Sepulcher that
was hewn in stone in which never man
before was laid
and that day was the preparation and the
Sabbath Drew on
and the women also who came with him
From Galilee followed and beheld the
Sepulcher and how his body was laid
and they returned and prepared spices
and ointments and rested the Sabbath day
according to the Commandment
but they never had the chance to use
those spices and ointments for he arose
from the dead
and he is alive today
wherever the gospel has gone
and it has not gone far enough
but wherever the gospel is gone people
know that Jesus died
you can take down a volume of an encyclopedia
encyclopedia
look up Jesus Christ and find their
description of the fact that Jesus did
die most people know that Jesus died
wherever the gospel has gone in Clarity
and power people have discovered that
Christ died for our sins
according to the scripture he was buried
and he arose again the third day
according to the scriptures
so that the facts of history and the
truths of Doctrine do not contradict
each other
we know that Jesus died and we know why
Jesus died today we're going to discover
the Lord Jesus Christ spent six hours on
the cross
three of those hours were in the
when it came to the end of that period
our Lord uttered three statements
very close to each other
I thirst
the suffering of his body
it is finished
the offering of his soul
as a sacrifice for sin
father into thy hands I commend my spirit
spirit
his Spirit released
this final statement of Our Lord from
the cross father into thy hands I
commend my spirit
describes for us how the Lord Jesus died
I'm not talking about the physical
method of death that was crucifixion
this is the remarkable thing about Psalm
22 Psalm 22 is a prophecy of crucifixion
written by a Jew to be read by Jews and
Jews did not crucify people they stoned
to death
our Lord was crucified cursed it is
everyone that hangeth up on a tree and I
if I be lifted up from the Earth
will draw all men unto me
I'm talking about the manner of his
death not the means of his death
the manner of his death people die the
the thing that is written on the heart
when Napoleon died his last words were
Army head of the army
he died the way he lived
when Sam Houston died
his last words were Texas Texas
Henry David Thoreau the great naturalist
was dying and his last Mumble words were moose
moose Indian
while he was still conscious a friend
said to him
what are your thoughts about the next world
world
and rather facetiously Thoreau said
our Lord's last words were father
into thy hands
I commend
my spirit
what were the characteristics
of our Lord's death
how did he die
father
he died confidently because he died in
the father's presence now three times
while he was on the cross the Lord Jesus
at the beginning
in the middle
and at the end
while they were in the process of
crucifying my Lord while they were
actually nailing him to the Cross
repeatedly he was praying father
forgive them for they know not what they do
do
the awful ignorance of sin
Peter said had your rulers known
but they didn't know Paul wrote and said
they would not so have crucified the
and then at the middle of that period
our Lord prayed the darkness came over
the land and from that Darkness our Lord
quoted Psalm 22 there are some students
who think that Jesus may have quoted all
of Psalm 22 when he was on the cross
my God my God why hast Thou forsaken me
and it appeared at that point that
something went wrong
but nothing went wrong
our Lord was being made a sacrifice for
and so at the beginning he prayed father
in the middle God my God
at the end father
he died confidently because he was in
the father's presence on a cross but in
the presence of the father
dying but in the presence of the father
ridiculed but in the presence of the
father it makes no difference what the
Earthly circumstances may be as long as
the word father was often on our Lord's lips
when he was just a lad he said to Joseph
and Mary
don't you know that I must be about my
17 times in The Sermon on the Mount he
uses the word father
when he talks about worry he says
your father knows that you have need of
in his
discourse to his disciples in the upper room
room
written for us by John in John chapters
13 through 17.
beginning with the washing of their feet
and ending with that great prayer in the garden
garden
in this discourse the Lord Jesus talks
about the father
51 times
and when he prayed he said I have made
known thy name unto the men that you
gave to me what name did he make known father
in the Old Testament the great name of
God was Jehovah I am and Jesus came and
said I am
I am the bread of life and I am the
light of the world and I am the one who
reveals the father he that has seen me
has seen the father and the one word
that Jesus wants to write Upon Our
Hearts is the word father
so many Christians walk the streets as though
though
the word is dictator judge
I was teaching my Sunday school class
downstairs in Sankey
a few years ago before we moved into the
auditorium I was talking with the class
about God as the father
and as soon as the class was over a
young student from one of the
universities in the area came up to me
and he said pastor
pastor
if God is like my father
I'm not interested
well God is not like any Earthly father
Jesus said if ye being evil
know how to give good gifts to your
children how much more shall Your Father
in heaven give good things to them that
ask him he's a compassionate father he's
a forgiving father
he's a chastening father because he's a
loving father
he died confidently
in the in in God's presence father
I wonder if you and I were dying that
kind of a death
after living that kind of a life
if we'd give expression to that kind of
a testimony father some of the Saints
would be saying I don't have a father if
he were my loving father why would this
one of our hymns says judge not the Lord
someone has misquoted that and said
judge not the Lord by feeble Saints
a lot of Truth to that too
we must never say I'm suffering
therefore I don't have a father my
prayer wasn't answered therefore I don't
have a father things aren't working out
my way therefore the father doesn't care
if anybody had a right to say the father
didn't care
it was the perfect holy harmless
undefiled Son of God who was suffering
not only a cruel death at the hands of
men but was offering his soul a
sacrifice for the sins of the world and
yet he says father
he died confidently
in God's presence
he died confidently
with God's promise
he's quoting scripture
the scripture is from Psalm 31. you
in thee Oh Lord do I put my trust
let me never be ashamed deliver me in
thy righteousness bow down thine ear to
me Deliver Me speedily be thou my strong
Rock for an House of Defense to save me
for thou art my rock and my Fortress
therefore for thy name's sake lead me
and guide me pull me out of the net that
they have laid secretly for me for thou
art my strength into thy hand I commit
my spirit thou Hast redeemed Me O Lord
God of Truth now when our Lord quoted
this verse he made two changes now he
I have no right to add to the word of God
God
or to take away from the word of God
it's not my book
but he can do it
he didn't say into thy hand I commit my
spirit thou Hast redeemed Me O Lord God
into thy hand I commit my spirit not
many Old Testament Saints called him father
Lord master
our Jewish friends avoided the great
name of god Jehovah
but you will not find too often in the
Old Testament a saint looking up and
saying father
Jesus added that
this is the privilege we have when you
pray pray after this manner not in these
words but after this manner our father
not my father
there are no singular pronouns in the
Lord's Prayer it's a family prayer Our Father
he added the word father and he did not
quote thou Hast redeemed me
now redemption in the Bible has many
different meanings sometimes it means to
sometimes it means to deliver from sin
my Lord needed no Redeemer he was the Redeemer
Redeemer
the mob said
he saved others
himself he cannot save what a joke he
saved others he cannot save himself
that's right if he's going to save
others he cannot save himself if he
saves himself he cannot save others
he did not need a redeemer
and so when he quoted this marvelous
promise he added father into thy hands I
the sinless Son of God did not have to
have a redeemer
you see all three of our Lord's Prayers
on the cross are tied to the word of God
father forgive them for they know not
what they do that's Isaiah chapter 53
verse 12. he made intercession for the transgressors
my God my God why hast Thou forsaken me
Psalm 22 verse 1.
father into thy hands I commit my spirit
Psalm 31 verse 5.
it's a good thing when you're praying
it was uh Archbishop trench who said
praying is not overcoming God's
reluctance praying is laying hold of
God's willingness and where do you find
God's willingness in God's word
how could Jesus pray into thy hand I
commit my spirit it was based on the
word of God
Jimmy Johnson told me one day about a
teenager who wrecked his father's car
and stood by the wreckage and prayed O
a foolish prayer
I have heard prayers that foolish in
prayer meetings and I have prayed
our Lord tied his praying to the word of God
God
as he did everything in his life
he lived by God's word and he died by
God's word
if you live by God's word you have no
problem Dying by God's word if you've
trusted God's word in life you can trust
our world today is looking for some kind
of security for life beyond the grave
they've tried the Ouija board and the
Seance they've tried drugs now they're trying
trying
parapsychology and the investigation of
some who are supposed to have come back
if you want a solid rock for your feet
when you go through that Valley that
rock is the word of God
he died confidently In God's Presence father
father
with God's promise Psalm 31 verse 5. he
died confidently under God's protection
father into thy hands
I commend my spirit go back to Psalm 31
verse 8.
talking about his adversaries
and Hast not shut me up into the hand of
the enemy
verse 11. I was a reproach among all my enemies
enemies
now what's he saying here
he had tasted of hatred and he'd felt
the hand of his enemies read the gospel
record and Mark when you find the word hands
Jesus said to his disciples we go up to
Jerusalem and the son of man is going to
be given over into the hands
Matthew chapter 26
the record of our Lord's arrest and betrayal
betrayal
Matthew chapter 26
verse 45.
Jesus said to his sleeping disciples
take your rest
the son of man is betrayed into the
hands of Sinners verse 50. then they
came and laid Hands On Jesus
it took him
Peter in his sermon says with Wicked hands
hands
you crucified him
Wicked hands stripped him Wicked hands
dressed him in a mocking robe Wicked
hands took a read and smote him Wicked
hands slapped him in the face Wicked
hands plucked out his beard Wicked hands
gleefully wove a crown of thorns and
wicked hands pressed the crown upon his
brow and wicked hands pushed him from
Caiaphas to pilate to Herod and back to
but there Comes A Time in life when
man's hand can do nothing more
Psalm 31
verse 15.
my times are in thy hand
deliver me from the hand of my enemies
and from those who persecute me
David in Psalm 31 predicts what our Lord
went through the hand of man the hand of
God the hand of man to buff it and beat
the hand of man to hurt
but then there comes a time when our
times are in God's hands and God says
that's the end no more
And Then There came the and and Jesus
said father
into thy hands
I commend my spirit
he died confidently in God's presence
with God's promise
in God's protection
that's a great way to die
he had forgiven his enemies
he had prepared and taken care of his mother
mother
he had led
one more soul to Salvation
he had fulfilled the father's will
and having done all of this he was now
prepared to yield
Paul must have had this in mind when he
wrote I know whom I have
and am persuaded that he is able to keep
that which I've committed unto him
and it came to pass that the rich man
died and was buried the beggar died and
was carried by the Angels into Abraham's bosom
you and I can die confidently God Is
With Us yea though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death I will
fear no evil thou art with me we can die
in God's presence
we can die with God's promise
we have the word of God to rest upon we
don't need Ouija boards
we can die in God's protection
I give unto them eternal life
and they shall never perish neither
shall any man pluck them out of my hand
the Father which gave them me is greater
than all and no man is able to pluck
them out of my father's hands
he died confidently
I noticed a second characteristic he
died willingly
he was in perfect control he was not murdered
he willed his own death
you say well I can will my own death no
you can't
well I could commit suicide wait a minute
minute
there are multitudes of people who tried
to will their own death didn't work
drown yourself but you can't will the
very second when your spirit leaves your
body you could drink poison you could
but you can't will that very instant
when your spirit leaves your body Jesus
could he said I have power
to lay down my life and I have authority
to take it off again here is an amazing
thing here is one who could will his own
death and then after dying will his own
Resurrection he's more than a man
he died willingly
he had finished the work that God gave
him to do now the time had come for him
to offer up his spirit
that's what he talked about
on the Mount of transfiguration
the greatest Bible Conference ever held
was on the Mount of transfiguration the
sad thing is the congregation went to sleep
Moses the greatest great prophet
Elijah the great prophet Jesus who is
the Fulfillment of the law and the prophet
prophet
the greatest preachers you could find
the greatest subject you could find it
says they discussed his Exodus
which he would accomplish at Jerusalem
not his death that he would suffer his
Exodus that he would accomplish Moses
knew a lot about an exodus
he'd been there
but our Lord was going to be the lamb to
be slain Moses had the Jews kill Lambs
for an exodus Jesus would be the lamb
they had an exodus from Earthly bondage
he gives us an exodus from spiritual
bondage they had an exodus from Earthly
bondage and we're soon back in bondage
again he gives us an exodus that
delivers us from bondage eternally
and he accomplished it his death was not
an accident it was an appointment and an
accomplishment his Exodus that he would
accomplish at Jerusalem willingly
willingly by an act of his own will
having completed the work that God gave
him to do he died willingly
that's a wonderful thing
to know that you can die in the will of God
the great tragedy for life to come to an
end and we look back and discover we
I noticed thirdly that my Lord died victoriously
victoriously
for when he died the veil was torn from
top to bottom when he died Graves were
opened and Saints came out when he died
now these three Miracles were not
accidental they were a part of God's plan
plan
I was reading the other day in First
Corinthians chapter 15 which is the
great gospel and Resurrection chapter
and he gets to the end of this chapter
Paul does and he is so enraptured by his
theme in verse 55 he says oh death where
is thy sting oh grave where is thy victory
victory
The Sting of death is sin
and the strength of sin is the law
here are three problems law
how are you going to solve those problems
problems
but thanks be to God who giveth us the
Victory and the verb means he keeps on
giving us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ when our Lord died that was
the end of the problem of sin the veil
of the temple was rent and men can come
into the presence of God the sin
problems settle
when God gave the law back at Mount
Sinai that mountain Shook and Men
trembled at God's law oh but on Mount
Calvary the mount shook but it was not
trembling at the law of God
it was the power of the grace of God
sin has been taken care of the veil is torn
the law has been taken care of Mount
Calvary replaces Mount Sinai
the grave has been taken care of
the graves were opened Jesus dies and
Graves open
Jesus dies and people come to life
he died victoriously he is the Victor
over sin and he is the Victor over the
law and he is the Victor over death and
he died in great victory
oh as far as the Jerusalem Journal was
concerned as the reporter stood there
writing up their stories he died in
great defeat
I can just read what Time Magazine would
Time Magazine would have said
the strange Jewish Carpenter whose
Ministry began with such power ended
with such failure
he opened his life by turning water into
wine he raised the dead and yet he
himself died a
shameful death on a Roman cry
it's all over how but it wasn't all over
with the Lord Jesus Christ he died victoriously
lifted up was he to die it is finished
was his cry
now in heaven exalted High hallelujah
what a savior
he died confidently and he died
willingly and he died victoriously
but the big question is not
and someone just now says now the
preacher is going to frighten us no I'm not
not
that's the reason you didn't walk out
under the L tracks the other day
that's what keeps you from going out in
the deep water
keeps you from drinking poison nobody
here wants to die
the fear of death is a good motive
people go to the hospital and have
x-rays because of the fear of death
I don't know how life is going to end
for you I don't know I don't know how
but one of these days life will end
either the Rapture our Lord returning in
great wonderful power catching home his
church life will end
the end of our ministry here the
beginning of our ministry there or death
is going to come
he who is not prepared to die is not
prepared to live
my Lord died confidently
every Christian can die confidently our
Lord died willingly I can't do that but
I'm willing when God calls me I cannot
will my own death
but I'm glad I can pray my times my
he died victoriously
that's the next thing to do
but the gift of God is eternal life
thank you Heavenly Father
that Jesus spoke from the cross and he
speaks to us today
who need to trust him
who need to have a sure word from God to
rest upon
but today they might trust him and help
so to live
that death for us will not be tragedy
he will not be a waste but an investment
that our times are in your hands
and will be able to say father
we would just now surrender all that we
are body
Soul and Spirit into your hands
guide us
use us
be glorified through us
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