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WARREN WIERSBE | 7 OF JESUS' LAST STATEMENTS FROM THE CROSS - "CALVARY" | SERIES 1/7 | AUDIO | Alpha English Sermons | YouTubeToText
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foreign [Music]
we read the word of God from Matthew
chapter 27
then the soldiers of the governor took
Jesus into the common Hall
and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers
soldiers
and they stripped him and put on him
a Scarlet robe
and when they had plated a crown of
thorns they put it upon his head
and a reed in his right hand
and they bowed the knee before him and
mocked him saying hail King of the Jews
and they spat upon him
and took the Reed and smote him on the head
head
and after they had mocked him they took
the robe off from him and put his own
Raymond on him
and led him away to crucify him
and as they came out they found a man of
Cyrene Simon by name
him they compelled to bear his cross
and when they were come unto a place
called Golgotha that is to say a place
of a skull
they gave him vinegar to drink mingled
with gall and when he had tasted it he
and they crucified him
part of his garments casting lots that
it might be fulfilled which was spoken
by the prophet
they parted my garments among them
and upon my vesture did they cast lots
and sitting down they watched him there
and set up over his head his accusation written
written
this is Jesus
the king of the Jews
and now to verse 45
now from the sixth hour there was
Darkness over all the land under the
ninth hour
and about the ninth hour Jesus cried
with a loud voice saying Eli Eli
llama sabach than I
that is to say my God my God why hast
Thou forsaken me
some of them that stood there when they
heard that said this man calleth for Elijah
Elijah
and straightway one of them ran and took
a sponge and filled it with vinegar and
put it on a reed and gave him to drink
the rest said let be let us see whether
Elijah will come to save him
Jesus when he had cried again with a
loud voice
yielded up the spirit
and behold the veil of the temple was
torn in two from the top to the bottom
and the Earth did quake and the Rocks
were split and the graves were opened
and many bodies of the saints that slept
were raised and came out of the graves
after his resurrection
and went into the holy city and appeared
now when the saint the Centurion and
they that were with him watching Jesus
saw the earthquake
and those things that were done they
feared greatly saying truly
truly
this was the son
these are the facts of his crucifixion
May the Holy Spirit help us to learn the truths
truths
God's final answer to every question
why doesn't a holy God judge sin and how
can a holy God forgive Sinners and that
at Calvary our great God answered the
for when men were doing their worst God
without denying human responsibility at
the cross God exercised Divine sovereignty
sovereignty
and accomplished the greatest deed ever accomplished
and at the cross of Jesus Christ God
answered the suffering question
why is there human suffering in the world
world
does God even care that people are suffering
let's be clear on what happened at Calvary
at Calvary you don't have the martyrdom
of a failure
at Calvary you do not have the murder of
a fanatic
at Calvary you have the Good Shepherd
laying down his life for the Sheep
at Calvary you have the Lamb of God
slain for the sins of the world
at Calvary you have God commending his
we've been looking for these past
several weeks at the question of
suffering in this world
God's answers to man's suffering
and we come now to the seventh of these
answers Calvary
God's final and complete answer to
suffering is at Calvary
and I'll tell you why
at Calvary
the Lord Jesus Christ takes all of the
other answers that we have discussed
and he fulfills them
he makes them possible
he illustrates them to us
if you have been following with me in
this study
you will know that we have found six answers
answers
that God gives to us
to help us understand experience
experience
and benefit from the sufferings of life
we've learned during these weeks that
life is not easy and God never expected
we've learned that God has said to us
here are six clear answers that help you understand
understand
why suffering is in this world
and now in this final message as we go
to Calvary
we're going to find the Lord Jesus
Christ reaching out embracing all of
these answers
and then making it possible for us
to use them in our own lives
the first answer that we considered was
the answer of creation why is there
suffering in this world
because creation is groaning and
travailing in pain creation is in bondage
bondage
we went back to the Book of Genesis and
there we were confronted with thorns
and sweat
and dust
I suppose these three items best
symbolize what's going on in creation
and sweat by the sweat of your brow
you're going to toil
and dust
you came from the dust said the Lord and
now you're going to return to the Dust
and so as man is in creation today man
is a part of bondage and travail and we
are groaning and all of creation is groaning
groaning
according to Romans chapter 8.
and then we come to Calvary and what do
sweat
and dust thorns
thorns
some Soldier got the bright idea that if
he's the king you ought to wear a crown
and so they went and got some Thorns
that were growing around there and they
wove them together and they made a crime
and they pressed upon the brow of the creator
the very Thorns that came into creation
and Jesus wore a crown of thorns it's as
though he is saying all right
I accept this
I didn't make creation this way
I did not make man or the world to have
suffering and toil
but that's the way sin has made it
I'm not guilty but I'll accept it I'm
not to blame but I'll receive it and he
received upon his perfect brow
a crown of thorns as though he is
bearing on his body the curse of creation
we visit him in the garden
and he's sweating
Peter was so cold that night he had to
stand by a fire and warm himself but
and our lord Jesus swept as it were
great drops of blood
Not Mere human perspiration because of
but as it were a sacrifice as it were
saying all right man toils man labors
man sweats and I'm going to enter into
that and I'm going to do the greatest
work ever done I'm going to do something
no man could do individually and all men
could not do collectively I'm going to
dust
my Lord fell on his face in the garden
and prayed
have you read Psalm 22 lately to see
what Jesus had to say about his own
crucifixion how to read it
in Psalm 22 and verse 15 the Lord Jesus
says prophetically through David
thou Hast brought me
to the Dust
now our Lord's body did not see
corruption our Lord's body did not turn
to dust God miraculously preserved that
body and he arose in a glorified body
but our Lord entered into the dust of death
death
and so when you go to Calvary
and you look at the Son of God with a
crown of thorns and sweating drops of
blood and falling Face Forward into the
dust and entering into the dust of death
you say creation will one day be delivered
delivered
and you notice something else
you notice that when Jesus died on the
cross all of Creation sympathized with him
the son refused to shine
it's as though God reached out and put a
veil over the light and said he's
entering into the darkness he's going
through hell for mankind and the sun
just didn't shine and then the Earth
began to shake and the Earth was rant
when the tubes were open Heaven and Earth
Earth
sympathized with the Creator when he
died on the cross
don't you ever blame God
for sickness tears
tears
and death
these are not his creations
rather go to Calvary and realize that he
went through the dust of death
that he entered into the darkness of hell
hell
that one day all of creation might be
delivered you get to the Book of
Revelation you find that wonderful statement
statement
there shall be no more death there is no
more curse the former things are passed
away and then says the word of God it is done
I'll tell you where it was done it was
done at the cross
the next time you find yourself in the
bondage and the travail of just being
human in a world that is filled with sorrow
sorrow
go to Calvary
because at Calvary you'll see the
Creator delivering his creation
our second answer to suffering was
conflict there's a battle going on
from the very beginning of sin God
declared war on Satan you serpent you're
going to bite the dust oh you may bite
his heel but he's going to crush your head
head
and history My Friend Is A great battle
the forces of God battling against the
forces of Satan and we're part of that
Jesus said he who is not with me is
against me he who's not gathering with
me is scattering
the thief cometh not but for to steal
and to kill and to destroy
Jesus said I'm come that they might have
a life that they might have it more abundantly
abundantly
conflict now what happened on the cross
on the cross the conflict was ended
all the skirmishes are still going on
the mopping up operations are going on
there are a few battles but the war has
been won on the cross Jesus completely
as he was contemplating Calvary our lord
said this now is the Judgment of this world
world
now shall the prince of this world be
cast out how
it means crucified
if I be lifted up from the earth will
draw all men unto me Satan has been
the Apostle Paul in Colossians chapter 2
makes a marvelous statement about my
Colossians chapter 2 and verse 15 having spoiled
principalities and Powers he made a show
of them openly
triumphing over them in it in what in
his cross
he spoiled Satan now you can't spoil an
army till you defeat the army when
you've won the battle then you go claim
the spoils
Jesus said to his disciples one day if a
strong man is guarding a house you gotta
you've got to bind the strong men and
you go and take what's in his house
well the strong man was guarding the
house this house of this world Satan was
the strong man guarding this house and
Jesus came in and he bound the strong man
man
defeated it so when you go to the Cross
you say hallelujah
he won the conflict Hallelujah the
battle's been won
Hallelujah the war is over now we as
Christians enter into suffering not from
defeat but from Victory we are not out
fighting for victory we are fighting
can you recall
after World War II how month after month
after month
for over a year and in one case three years
years
they were finding enemy soldiers who
didn't know the war was over remember that
that
our men would go in they'd find people
who were in caves starving and they'd
say wait a minute the war is over
I find Christians who are going through
suffering and difficulty and they say
God's fighting me Satan's fighting me oh no
no
the war is over
he's won the victory over Satan Satan
cannot get a victory in our lives unless
we let him that's why Paul says don't
give place to the devil don't let him
get a beach head anywhere in your mind
or your heart if he moves in he will use
suffering to tear you down but if you'll
trust in the Christ of Calvary he's
Jesus will use suffering to Build You Up
and so at the cross we find conflict
finally settled
the third answer we discovered was character
character
in Romans chapter 5 verses 3 and 4
tribulation Works patience and patience
experience experience hope that we're
experience means character
why does God permit us to go through
suffering sometimes we don't have to
sometimes God can build our character in
other ways
and for that we're grateful but
sometimes we have to go through the
furnace sometimes you have to go through
the waters to build character what does
the cross have to say about character
we are not Sinners because we sin we sin
because we're sinners
and character
has been polluted by sin what did Jesus
do on the cross well not only did he pay
the penalty for our sin that means forgiveness
forgiveness
a clean conscience
our names written down in heaven but he
also broke the power of sin we sing in
one of our songs he breaks the power of
canceled sin he sets the prisoner free
his blood can make the foulest clean his
blood availed for me the power of the
Cross is not just simply power to rescue
Us From Hell the power of the Cross is
power to build character foreign
foreign
in fact Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 10
informs me that Jesus Christ was made
perfect through suffering
how can God be made perfect well as far
as his character is concerned God is God
he cannot be improved that word made
perfect means completed brought to
fulfillment qualified my Lord was going
to enter into a new ministry the God man
up in heaven and to prepare him for that
and so not only did something happen to
me at Calvary something happened to
Jesus at Calvary
he was equipped qualified
prepared fulfilled for that marvelous
Ministry of doing what building character
when you go to the Cross you find that
shall we continue in sin that Grace May
abound God forbid
how shall we that have died to sin where
at the cross live any longer therein
for you are dead and your life is heed
with Christ in God
therefore reckon yourselves to be dead
indeed unto sin and Alive unto God
that all happened at the cross
avoid the cross when you can't build
Christian character the power is not there
the fourth answer that We examined in
this matter of human suffering
his companionship
we discovered that when God wants to
draw close to us he sometimes puts us in
a narrow Valley
we also discovered that when God wants
us to draw closer to each other he puts
us through suffering in second
Corinthians chapter 1
Paul tells us that he went through all
of this difficulty that we might be able
to comfort other people
would you please look upon suffering not
I know that when we're when we hurt
when our hearts are broken and when
everything is falling apart nobody wants
I recall
being at a funeral home many years ago a
very close friend of mine had passed away
away
and I was sitting there with some of the relatives
relatives
and in came a good friend and a godly
man and he walked over and said to the
wife of the deceased I have come to help
you celebrate the coronation
I know what he meant but he said it at
the wrong time
she looked up and said for you it may be coronation
coronation
but for me it's sorrow
I know what she meant she hurt her heart
was broken and mentally she knew it was
coronation but emotionally it hurts and
words just did not solve the problem
that's why you have companionship
God says when you're going through the
water I'll be with you
when you go through the fire I'll be
there fear thou not for I am with thee
be not dismayed for I am thy God
have you noticed in your life I know you have
have
that the greatest encouragement
sometimes comes when someone is just
standing there
by your side saying nothing
companionship someone with an arm around
you is someone standing there that's
what God does
and this is possible because of Calvary
God could not get close to me apart from Calvary
Calvary
what does he want to come and be my companion
companion
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God can't walk with me unless sin is
taken care of this is what happened to
Calvary Calvary Jesus Christ entered
into an experience of companionship with
you and me okay Hebrews talks about that
in fact it's the whole theme of the book
of Hebrews the priesthood of our Lord
Hebrews chapter 2 verse 17.
wherefore in all things it behooved him
to be made like his Brethren that's
companionship God With Us
he took upon us our nature I took upon
him our nature he took upon him our sins
that he might be a merciful and faithful
high priest in things pertaining to God
for in that he himself has suffered
being tempted
he is able to help them that are being tempted
tempted
that's companionship and you're going
through suffering and you're tempted to sin
Jesus draws nigh and he gets close to
you and he said I know what you're going
through I've been through it
over in Hebrews chapter 4.
listen to these words
seeing then that we have a great high
priest not just a priest a high priest
and not just any high priest a great
high priest
that is past
through the heavens
Jesus the son of God
let us hold fast our confession doesn't
say let's hold fast our Salvation he
takes care of that let's hold fast our
confession let's be able to confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God
the Father
now how do you keep holding fast when
you're going through the Rapids of life
and over the waterfalls and the winds
are blowing for we have not in high
priest who cannot be touched with the
feeling of our infirmities but was in
all points tempted like as we are yet
without sin Let Us therefore come boldly
under the throne of grace not a throne
of judgment were it not for Calvary it
would be a throne of judgment but thank
God it's a throne of grace that we may
obtain Mercy
and find Grace to help in the time of
need the literal Greek there is in the
nick of time find Grace to help in the
nick of time
my dear friend at Calvary God says
companionship I am with you in your
suffering I'm even with you in your sin
and I'm going to be able to forgive you
of your sin and walk with you and live
that in order for him
to give me companionship with God he
lost God's companionship
my God my God why hast Thou forsaken me
he was forsaken that I might never be forsaken
forsaken
God turned his back upon his own son
that he might turn his face toward me
and receive me and be reconciled
in Jesus Christ
Calvary says companionship you see I
feel so alone in my suffering nobody understands
understands
I tell you there's one hanging on a tree
who understands
you say but I hurt he hurt
and we deserve it
the fifth answer that we considered was
the answer of chastening
Hebrews chapter 12.
chastening means child training
chastening is not a judge punishing a
criminal chastening as a father building
I was interested to see in the magazines
that they are now teaching children to
I imagine when that child is thrust into
that water which is an alien environment
there are times in our lives when God
thrusts Us in he takes away the water
wings he takes away the pontoons he
breaks down the bridge
there are times when God says climb
get moving on that mountain can't stay
where you are we parents have to help
our children mature and the only way to
help them to mature is to make life
difficult occasionally
if we do everything for our children
they'll never grow
Hebrews chapter 12 says look when you're
going through chastening when the father
in Love Is chastening You
remember this looking unto Jesus that's
what Calvary is all about
I suppose the one statement I hear more
than any other when people are going
through suffering is this pastor
I don't think God loves me anymore
ever heard that
you ever said that
I don't think God loves me anymore
we have a tendency to think that when
the sky is bright
the flowers are blooming and the bills
are paid and the blood is circulating
God loves us but let a cloud come across
the sky Let the Rain Begin to Fall let
the flowers wither let the blood stop
circulating and we say God doesn't love
us anymore we have a tendency to believe
that the love of God is wrapped up only
in the circumstances of Life the devil
loves that that's the whole theme of the
book of Job Satan says to God sure he
loves you and serves you because you
blessed him wipe him out and see what he does
does
and I dare say there are some saints of
God today who if they were wiped out
they've shaped their fist in the face of God
God
because they love the gifts but not the giver
giver
they're wrapped up in the blessings but
not the blesser and the circumstances of
Life are their measurement of the
blessings of God
and I go to Calvary and say here is his son
son
circumstances of Life forsaken by his
own disciples rejected by his own Nation
ridiculed locked spat
crucified like a cheap dirty common Criminal
Criminal
God where's your love that is my life
but God commendeth his love toward us in
that while we were yet sinners Christ
died for us
Satan comes to you and says God doesn't
love you anymore
you're going through the chastening process
process
God doesn't love you anymore just go to Calvary
Calvary
that's what Hebrews 12 says don't give
up don't faint let's run with endurance
looking unto Jesus the author and the
finisher of our faith he started it
he'll finish it who for the joy that was
set before him endured the cross you say
I Can't Take One Day More suppose you
what was it that kept Jesus there his love
love
what keeps us going our love for God the
cross does not tell me that God hates me
the cross tells me that God loves me for
the joy that was set before him what Joy
is that the joy of returning to glory
which leads us to the final
answer that Calvary gives to us crowns
crowns
suffering for the Christian can lead to
Glory doesn't always lead to Glory
suffering can make us better or
suffering can lead to a crown or
suffering can lead to defeat all depends
upon our faith in God
I'm sure when the early followers of Our
Lord were standing there at Calvary
that's what the Emmaus disciples said we
had hoped that it was should be he that
should restore Israel
he's dead
can you imagine they saw him hanging
he lost all of his human rights and all
and yet what was the result Glory
that's what Jesus said to those men when
he's walked with him he said did it not
behoove the Christ to suffer and then
enter into his glory
the suffering can lead to Glory
if we wait upon the Lord in faith
that's what Calvary says
Calvary says Good Friday is not the end wait
and he came forth from that tomb in glory
glory
he left behind those grave clothes he
came out in the glory clothes
and all he carried with him
from Calvary were the wounds not scars wounds
that he is in heaven today
with wounds
and among other things those wounds are
saying suffering leads to Glory
in the will of God
if we don't Rebel
if we submit if we love if we trust then
suffering leads to Glory it did with Joseph
Joseph
13 years of rejection
humiliation separation
lying and he ended up in glory seated
upon a throne
it was with David
years of running and hiding in caves
chased by that evil King and yet it
so it was with Joel
so it was with Jesus
Peter says I am a witness of his
suffering and the glory that found
and as you read first Peter it's
suffering Glory suffering Glory I reckon
that the sufferings of this present time
says Paul are not worthy to be compared
with the glory that shall be revealed in US
and one day God's Gonna Take Your Wounds
and there's going to be glory he'll take
your broken heart and they'll be glory
and you'll look back and you'll see what
God was laying in store for you when you
went through the furnace and you went
through the flood and you went through
the fight and you were saying God where
are you and he's saying I'm laying up
glory for you
calvary's all about Calvary says to us
once and for all the only way to a crown
but we don't like that
so Calvary gives us God's last word
God's final answer
we're suffering sometimes because we're
just creatures in a cursed creation but
at the cross
the curse of creation is broken
sometimes we suffer because we're in a conflict
conflict
with Satan but at the cross the conflict
sometimes we suffer because God has to
build character
and at the cross he broke the power of
sin that you and I might become more and
more like the Lord Jesus Christ
sometimes we suffer because of
companionship God wants to draw close to
us and at the cross he did
he became a merciful and faithful high
priest to sympathize and draw near
sometimes we suffer because of
chastening and when that happens looking
unto Jesus who for the joy that was set
before him endured the cross and
sometimes we suffer because of crowns
God says I want you to have something up
in heaven I want to give you some Glory
that's what happened at the cross first
the cross then the crown first the
suffering then the glory first the tree
then the throne
first man at their worst than God it's best
the important thing about life is not
escaping suffering or enduring suffering
important thing about life is investing
suffering so God can accomplish what he
wants to accomplish in our lives
now let's stop being little children who
think that God is punishing us sometimes
he does have to do that
let's stop whimpering
but stop running away but stop trying to
be insulated and isolated
the early Christians suffered we're
going to suffer
we're suffered because we're human
beings we'll suffer because we're Christian
Christian
we suffer because we're growing we'll
suffer because we're going
but stand up like Godly men and women
and let's say with that man in the Old
Testament who suffered far more than any other
other job
see my friend we Christians suffer for someone
someone
unsaved people are suffering today for nothing
nothing
and they're going to suffer for all eternity
I don't mind suffering today be it
physical emotional spiritual
as long as I know there's going to be no
Eternal suffering
I can't begin to think of what it means
to suffer eternally
eternally
to be separated from God's companionship
separated from God's presence God's
glory those of you who have never been
saved will suffer eternally
your biggest problem is not suffering
now it's suffering forever oh why don't
you give your heart to Christ and be saved
saved
and enter with us into the fellowship of
his sufferings
that leads to the fellowship of his glory
thank you Father that even suffering can
be taken by your hand
and made into something good
and beautiful and eternal
thank you that when man and
circumstances and Satan are doing their
worst you can accomplish your best
thank you Father
for not only saving us by the blood of Christ
Christ
but making us molding us preparing us
through the power of Christ I pray for
those today who suffer
whether it be here in our congregation
now or our radio congregation those who
are bearing pain and difficulty
may they go to Calvary
in their sea in Christ all the answers
and may we bow in submission
crown him King Of Our Lives
I pray for those who are not saved but
they might trust Christ
Eternal Abundant Life
speak to Hearts now I pray in Jesus name amen
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