March 29, 2024 – Good Friday

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We’re so blessed to be able to come together as a family and just honor our Father this night in remembrance of what Christ our King has done for each and every one of us. Let’s say a prayer and then we’ll start praising. Heavenly Father, Lord God, I just thank you, Lord, that.

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everything that you give us, that we have your word, Father, that we can come together and learn and know more about you, Father, that we can rely fully on you, Lord, and we can remember that no matter what we’re in, no matter what we walk through, that you go before us, Father, that you spoke the words that is finished.

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Lord, we only need to look to you. And I ask today, I know many of us have had a very trying week. A lot of us carry heavy things, Father. And I just ask right now, Lord, that your peace would be on each one of us, Father, that we would be in remembrance of who you are and what you’ve done, Lord. And I just pray for your healing and your love. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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No.

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From an alley in the darkness, I heard them say to me, We know you were with him, we know what we did see. So I turned to get away when they shouted you’re with him.

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We saw you here this morning. We know you prayed with him. I said I don’t know him. You don’t know what you say. I said I don’t know him.

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I turn away

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As I stood watching him walk by, someone called me his friend. Then I looked him in the eye, denying him again. I said I don’t know him.

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Last night, I said I don’t know

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Leave me alone, I cry

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me. I can’t believe what I say out of fear tonight.

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can’t be no one can see

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They’re gonna do here for fun

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done I’ve turned away but they still pointed me he told me I would be afraid I said that could not be I said I don’t know him

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said i don’t know

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And there’s no one, there’s no way

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For he’s the one

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I said I don’t know him

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I said I don’t know him

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The hill far away stood an old rugged cross The emblem of suffering and shame

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where the dearest and best for a world of all sinners was slain. So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross, till my trophies at last I lay down.

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We’ll cling to the old rugged cross And exchange it someday for a crown

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The old rugged cross Starved with blood so divine I wonder is beauty I see

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It was on that old cross Jesus suffered and died

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Saint did find me So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross Till my trophies at last I lay down

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cling to the old rocket cross and exchange it someday for a crown.

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To the old rugged cross I will ever be true. It’s shame and reproach gladly bare. Then he’ll call me someday to my home far away, where his glory forever I’ll…

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So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross Till my trophies at last I lay down

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to cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it someday for a crown.

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will cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it someday for a cry.

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I’ve been the one

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I’ve been the one on the right always looking for a fight thinking I could never be forgiven I’m standing here today overwhelmed by grace cause I know who paid my cost thank God for the man on the middle cross

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Didn’t have to do it, but for me he went through it. Love like that I’ll never understand.

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knows I don’t deserve it and I know I couldn’t earn it. Don’t have mercy on this desperate man.

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I’ve been the one on the left full of guilt and regret long gone on the wrong side of living I’ve been the one on the right always looking for a fight thinking I could never be forgiven I’m standing in a day overwhelmed by grace cause I know who paid my cost Thank God for the man on the middle cross

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Crosses where he went, oh but that ain’t where he stayed Brought me back to life, when he rose up out of that grave Someday I’ll stand before him, I’ll see Jesus face to face Worship and adore him, for life forever changed

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I bet the one on the left full of guilt and regret long gone on the wrong side of livin’ I bet the one on the right always lookin’ for his fight thinkin’ I could never be forgiven I’m standin’ here today overwhelmed by grace cause I know who paid my cause Thank God for the man on the middle cross

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to Jesus, all to Jesus, to remember that. Those lines that say, Lord knows I don’t deserve it, and I know I couldn’t earn it. I did it all for us.

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It’s hard to grasp that sometimes, what he actually did for us and what that actually means. And I think it’s important that we even ask him in our prayers to really reveal that to us because once you know that it’s not about obedience, it’s not about religion, it’s about honoring someone who gave his life for us.

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Thanks for watching!

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Just three nails, he built a bridge.

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Between my father and me, you wouldn’t think that just three nails

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finish a work so complete. It was hard to imagine when all else fails. The carpenter made my salvation with just three nails.

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Just three words, he gave us hope. The moment he gave up his life, you wouldn’t think that just three words…

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such a great sacrifice. Angels in heaven sang out when they heard. Chains of our sins have been broken with just three words.

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In just three days he rose again. With the keys to the grave in his hand, the stone rolled back. In just three days the finish of God’s perfect plan.

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Jesus the Savior in his glory and grace. Ransom the nations from darkness in just three days.

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Just three nails, he built a bridge. Between my father and me, you wouldn’t think That just three nails would finish a work so complete And it’s hard to imagine

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spells the carpenter made my salvation with just three nails he did it with just three nails

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you

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To the cross I look, to the cross I cling. Oh, whether it’s suffering I do dream, or whether it’s work I do sing, for only my Savior.

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been crushed. Show that God is love.

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And God is just

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I am lost for words, so lost in love. I am sweetly broken, wholly surrendered.

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This is a gift for one deserve it

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I was given through Christ crucified. You called me out of death. You called me into life. And I was under your wrath. Now through the cross I’m reconciled.

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I’m done.

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At the cross you beckon me Draw me gently to my knees And I am lost for words, oh Lost in love I am sweetly broken Holy surrender At the cross you beckon me Draw me gently oh to my knees And I am lost for words, oh

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Lost in love I am, sweetly broken, wholly surrendered. In love the cross I must confess. How wondrous your redeeming love and how great is your faithfulness.

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I lost you back in me. You dropped me gently to my knees and I am lost for words, oh lost in love. I am sweetly broken, holding surrender. I lost you back in me.

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You brought me gently to my knees and I am lost for words so lost in love I am Swayingly broken, only surrender Oh

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Jesus. Holy Jesus. Holy Jesus.

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What do we have to give to someone who has given everything?

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Our praise and our worship, our thanks. And the most amazing thing as we think about tonight and what we remember when it looked like everything was done for the Savior, the one that was gonna come and bring redemption for all was gone, dead, finished, done, the heartbreak to know that God was doing something.

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Every time we’re in that place where we feel like it’s just done. It’s finished. I can’t go no further Everything looks like nothing’s going right. God is doing something because you know what? Huh? Our God is a God of glory Thank you Lord, we are in a time though. We know what happened three days after that cross

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I see the cloud

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And I stay here

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See your glory like Moses did.

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Flashes of lightning

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of thunder.

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I’m not afraid

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I’m not afraid

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Show me your glory.

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Show me your glory

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Bought by your beauty

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Trust in your eyes

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I long to walk in your presence like Jesus did.

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surrounds me

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Yeah.

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But I’m not afraid

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REEE EEEEE

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Show me your glory. I long to look on the face of the one that I love.

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Long to be in your presence. It’s where I belong. Long to look on the face of the one that I love. Long to be in your presence. It’s where I belong.

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Show me your glory

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Show me your glory, yeah Show me your glory

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Show me your glory

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see the cloud

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still here

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I see the cloud I step in I see the cloud

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Weee

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Show me your glory

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Show me your glory

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Show me your glory

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Show me your glory

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What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

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Thanks for watching!

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I’m gonna wait for just a minute toward the end for this, okay? Well, good to see y’all tonight. Have you felt like you’ve been to church so far? I don’t know about you, but I have. That’s good. Y’all did a great job. We’re gonna take communion here in just a minute, but I want you to take your Bibles for just a second. And I want you to open to the book of John.

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John chapter 19.

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When you get to John 19, just hold your place and go to Isaiah in the Old Testament.

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I’m going to read from Isaiah first, Isaiah 53.

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And then we’ll go back to John 19. Don’t worry. I had about four different places marked in my Bible. I’m cutting the sermon in half. Truth is, I didn’t know which way to go. It’s all good, right? I heard one preacher say, just open your Bible anywhere you turn, it’s all good. It’s all right. But we’re gonna stay together tonight. Isaiah 53.

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And you may not realize this, but…

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As I stand here tonight to share with you the gospel message, which tonight we talk about the death of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, you realize for almost 2,000 years now preachers have been standing and declaring that message, not just on this day, but throughout the centuries.

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Not only have they declared the gospel and the good news of Jesus, but they’ve never done it in a time like you and I are living today. And this really doesn’t isn’t so much part of my message other than this. Today, as I was thinking and preparing, the weight of it kind of just hit me.

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how close we are to Jesus coming again. This may be the last Good Friday service I ever have the chance to do because Jesus may come before this year’s over and you say, well, every preacher says that, you know, and that’s all right. Here’s how close you need to know we are. From the time of Moses till present day,

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There have been nine red heifers sacrificed. Now you may wonder, what’s a red heifer got to do with it? Well, this is a Texas story too, all right? So hang with me. In the Old Testament, in the Leviticus, they were to take a red heifer, the priest, and this red heifer had to be perfectly red, no blemishes, three years old, and it would be an absolute…

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perfect animal of which they would take and sacrifice it and Then burn it to make ashes of it

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And with those ashes, they mix with water and the priest would purify themselves. Matter of fact, anybody going into the temple would have to purify themselves with the ashes of the red heifer. Similar to what Catholics today practice as Ash Wednesday, the ash on the forehead, the cross shape on their forehead. But in the Old Testament, the red heifer was pointing to Jesus who would come, who would be the perfect sacrifice.

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And there’s a lot of details I’m leaving out. The Jewish people today believe and have stated there have been nine red heifers sacrificed since Moses sacrificed the red one.

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They believe emphatically, and by the way, the last one was about 2,000 years ago. They believe emphatically that the 10th one will usher in the Messianic age, known to you and I as Christians as the millennial reign of Christ. They believe he’s coming for the first time, we believe he’s coming for the second time.

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I read just recently one of the spokespersons for Hamas, and you don’t hear this in the secular news today, but I actually listened to the statement and read part of the statement. He believed and stated that one of the reasons Hamas attacked Israel on October 4th was because of what happened just a year and a half ago when Israel brought

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red heifers from Texas, four of them raised in Texas, and brought them to Israel. Finally, they were here for a year. And here’s the amazing thing. The ranch they came off of, the father of the man that I listened to, the man who now delivered those red heifers, I watched the livestream as they were leaving Texas and on their way to Guardia Airport, I think it was. And they were taking them there. And then to put them on a plane and take those four

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to Israel and there they would have to inspect them for a year. Israel is perhaps preparing to sacrifice the tenth heifer on Passover. Today’s not Passover, it’s in April actually.

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And Hamas knew that, and here’s the significant reality of that. You say, what does that have to do with the end times? The Red Heifer has to be sacrificed. They have to first find one, and they’ve been looking for 2,000 years. Four or three of those four have turned out kosher. In other words, OK, without blemish. Here’s the crazy thing. They can’t have any ear tags or markings in the ranch that did it that raised them. They missed tagging them because tagging day,

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during COVID, okay? So they get the air tag, if they put an air tag in them, then they wouldn’t have been perfect and without blemish, they couldn’t have done it. So Israel’s getting ready to sacrifice the 10th heifer, possibly as early as this Passover, which is in April. That heifer has to be sacrificed. The first one, they’ve got three. The first one they have found in 2000 years.

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And the significance of that is because they are planning to rebuild. I’ve read a number of articles and I don’t know how much truth there is completely to it. But I do know this and you can go to the Temple Institute website. You can see that they are ready and prepared to rebuild the temple. The priests are trained and you say, what does the temple and the rebuilding of the temple have to do with it? Well, the Dome of the Rock sits upon the Temple Mount today, but the Bible is very clear and Daniel and Jesus spoke of it also.

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And Revelation even records part of this, that three and a half years into the tribulation time, that Antichrist is gonna go into the temple, declare that he’s God, and that’s called the abomination and desolation. He’s gonna be worshiped by the world as God.

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So those red heifers which came from Texas, who are now in Israel, and they’re getting ready to sacrifice the 10th one, and the Jewish people believe that will usher in the Messianic age, you need to know we are that close. It may not be this year, but it sure could be. I’m just telling you, we’re closer than any other generation that’s ever lived.

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And what they don’t realize is Jesus was the final red heifer and he was the final lamb. So Isaiah 53 and I just want you to as you think about the gravity of where we are in Bible prophecy how how close we are to Jesus coming for the second time. He already came the first time.

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But he’s coming back and he’s coming back soon. And I hope you recognize that as we worship him tonight and as we celebrate and remember his death and Sunday, his resurrection, just remember it won’t be long and we’ll be doing that in heaven. It won’t be long and all of this mess that you and I have seen in this world is gonna be done. But I wanna read Isaiah 53 and verse four.

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And this whole chapter is about, and it’s a prophecy of who Jesus is. I remember when I was in seminary, I had a guy that was in seminary with me. He was from Israel and going back to Israel, was raised in Israel and going back to Israel to be a missionary. You’d say, well, I would get to be a missionary in Israel because in Israel, they do not believe Jesus was the Messiah.

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By and large, the nation of Israel, the Jewish people, have still rejected Jesus. And I remember when we were studying through Isaiah, he told us, he said, you know, I grew up in Israel, grew up with an Old Testament. We did not ever have the New Testament. I never saw a New Testament until a missionary came there because the New Testament was omitted. It was not included in the Jewish Bible, only the Old Testament. And he said, funny thing, when we would go to synagogue,

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of Isaiah in some synagogues was either ignored or removed and it was this prophecy of becoming Messiah and they could not reconcile reconcile in their minds and they still can’t how their king their Messiah would also be a suffering king and a suffering Messiah and in Isaiah 53 in the whole chapter is about this but I just want to read one part to you it says surely he has borne our griefs

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and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed him as stricken. That’s verse four. Smitten by God and afflicted. Smitten by God and afflicted. See, you and I, we get to know God as a father. You and I get to know God as love. You and I get to know God and as a merciful God.

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But the reason that we get to know him that way is because of that he poured out his wrath on his son. God is also a just and holy God who cannot and will not tolerate sin. See, when we look at the cross and we see the body, the blood-beaten body of Jesus, you and I have to understand that yes, God is a good God. Yes, God is a loving God, but God is a holy God and he hates sin.

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and he poured out his wrath on Jesus for our sin.

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Jesus carried our grief. He carried our sorrow. He carried our sin and God smitten him. God afflicted him and it says in verse five, but he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement for our peace was upon him and by his stripes we are healed.

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Y’all say amen right there. If you don’t say amen about anything else, you say amen to that. You say, well, that means spiritual. Let me remind you, death is because of spiritual failure. Sickness is because of spiritual failure. It doesn’t mean you say, well, I’m sick, so I must have sinned. No, you need to understand death and sickness came into this world because of sin. It’s part of the curse, but he carried all of that. And he was he was bruised in his by his stripes. We are healed.

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all we like sheep have gone astray and we have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.” In other words, iniquity means sin. God laid the sin of all of us on Christ and then God wounded his own son. God poured out his wrath on his own son.

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Those stripes that Roman soldiers put on Jesus were put there really by the heart of God because it was for our sin he was wounded, our transgressions that he was bruised. And you understand tonight that the very reason Jesus went to the cross was so that our sin could be satisfied in the courts of God.

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Now go to John for just a minute and I’m not going to be long and we’re going to take communion. But in the book of John, what did I tell you? Nineteen? John 19.

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and read with me in verse 17, and he, just talking about Jesus, and he bearing his cross went to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha, where they crucified him and two others with him. Let me stop right there and just say I read recently in Israel today.

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that the Jewish people believe the very place that we as Christians recognize as Golgotha, the place where Christ was crucified.

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You’ll notice the similarity in that word, the place of the skull. Where did it get its name from? If you go back to 1 Samuel chapter 17, you’ll read the story of a little shepherd boy walking out on the battlefield and he takes the head of a man named Goliath. And in the next chapter, you’ll read that he takes and cuts off that man’s head and he takes it to Jerusalem and there put it on display to show the might and the power of God.

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The very place they’ve said today, the very place where Jesus was crucified, Golgotha, the place of the skull, was the very place that David took the head of the giant. So this, Danai, I want to ask you, what giants do you have in your life?

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Because I want you to know that the giant of sin, Christ went to that very place to defeat it once and for all. And so it says, he took him to Golgotha, where they crucified him and two others with him, one on either side and Jesus in the center.

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Now Pilate wrote the title and put it on the cross. The writing was this, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. And then many of the Jews read the title for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. And it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Therefore the chief priest of the Jews said to Pilate, do not write King of the Jews. And he said, I am the King of the Jews. Pilate answered, what have I written?

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What I have written, I have written. Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, made four parts, two each soldier a part, and also the tunic. And the tunic was without seam woven from the top of one piece. And they said therefore among themselves, let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be that the scripture might be fulfilled, which says, they divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.

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Therefore the soldiers did these things. Now they’re stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother’s sister Mary, and the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene. And when Jesus therefore saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing by, he said to his mother, woman, behold your son. And then he said to the disciple, this is John, he’s saying this to, behold your mother. And from that hour, that disciple took her to his own home.

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And here’s what I want you to get. Notice the next few words, the next few verses. And after this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, what does that mean? That means that Jesus knowing that the full wrath of God had been poured out on him. Jesus knowing that the wrath of God was satisfied and God looked at sin now with justice. He says,

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Jesus knowing that it had been accomplished that the scripture might be fulfilled. He said I Thirst now I want you to get this picture. Jesus is hanging on a cross He hasn’t just been there for a few minutes. We read this in a matter of minutes We make the the agony of the cross look very quick, but it wasn’t it was hours upon hours And as he hangs there, he’s he’s burdened He’s he’s you may have heard me preach how they nailed his his hands and it would have been right through the wrist

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so that they caught the bone to hold him so that the flesh in his hand wouldn’t give way. And his feet were nailed and he would have to push up and the way someone being crucified would eventually die. They would literally die of asphyxiation. They would quit breathing. They would literally drown in their own blood and the fluids of their body. But he cries out, I thirst. And you say, well, why would, why is that so important? Why did God put that there?

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with the woman who came out at noon the Bible tells us and she came she was a Samaritan woman and and he asked her he says would you draw me some water to drink and she says what would I do drawing you some water you’re a Jew and I’m a Samaritan woman but we don’t have anything to do with each other she begins this argument about where they worship and Jesus then he says if you knew who I was you give me a drink

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He said, but let me tell you something. I can give you a drink of water to which you’ll never have to draw from this well again, because the water that I give you will be a water of life springing up into everlasting life in you. The one who cried, I thirst.

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did so so that you and I would never thirst spiritually, but our life would be fulfilled and we would have everlasting, ever eternal water of life flowing in and out of us.

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He said, I thirst. Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a hyssop and put it to his mouth. So when Jesus had received the sour wine, here’s what he said. He said, it is finished. And bowing his head, he gave up the spirit. There are seven things that Jesus said on the cross.

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I didn’t have time to read them all tonight, but let me just tell you what they are. First of all, in Matthew, he said as they were leading him to the cross and they cheered at him, he said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. And then he said to the thief on the cross that hung between him or beside him, he turned to that thief who declared that.

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He was guilty, but Jesus wasn’t. He said to that thief, he said, today, when that thief said, remember me when you come into thy kingdom, Lord, he said, today, thou shall be with me in paradise. I read to you just a moment ago, John 19, as he’s hung there on the cross, there stood his mother, most believed she was a widowed woman by this time. His brothers, did you know that if you open your Bible to James, the book of James, and Jude, Jude and James, were half brothers to Jesus, in other words, Mary was their mother, they were his younger brother,

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but they didn’t Joseph was their father have you ever asked a question wherever they they were so ashamed of him and thought he probably was a coop they weren’t even present at the cross and where was Joseph most believe he was dead by this time some say it could have been that him married divorced who knows but now to the less she’s all alone she’s probably a widowed woman and and the only disciples that stare at the cross and that’s why I read John’s account to you he’s the only disciple that was there and he says woman behold

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mother. In other words, you take her, you take care of her because my work on earth is finished. And then I read it also when he looked in Matthew where he looks up into the heaven he says, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

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in that moment of the full way and wrath of God on him. I love what Max Lucado said years ago. He said God would rather have turned his own back on his own son than to turn his back on you and I. You understand that the cross was about the wrath of God being poured out on sin and the wrath of God being satisfied so that you and I could have eternal life and forgiveness and freedom of sin.

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And then he says, I thirst. And then he said, it is finished. And in Luke’s gospel records, he said, into thy hands I commend my spirit. I want to say to some of you here tonight because you are human. You’re like me. I’m not perfect. I have a past. Every one of us in here have a past. And

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often we are haunted by our past. Are we not? I’m like Paul, I try to forget those things which are behind me. I understand I’m forgiven, but I also know that the enemy’s tactic, and it’s this, it’s if he can get us to sin, then he gets us to be wrapped up in remorse and regret of our past.

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But you understand when Jesus hung on the cross and that sixth of the seventh final word recorded that he spoke when he said, it is finished. Telesia, Telesia, literally mean paid in full. Your sin debt and my sin debt was paid in full. Nothing else necessary to satisfy the wrath of God.

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Jesus paid it all. And he paid it in full. And so when he looked into heaven and he said, it is finished. I want you to remind the devil when he brings up your past. I want you to remind the devil every time he floods your heart with guilt. I want you to remind him with these words, Jesus said, it is finished.

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is finished, paid in full. I don’t have to go back and revisit it. I don’t have to live through it again. I am forever free of my past because Jesus paid it all. Can you imagine as he breathes last breath?

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The Bible says a Roman soldier walked by and he pierced his side because he was supposed to break his legs and the reason he was to break his legs is because it was Passover and they wanted all the bodies off the crosses and so they would come by and they would break their legs so they could no longer push up and all it did is just speed up the process of death which had been agonizing, had gone for hours, about nine hours to be exact.

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And he’s in all this agony when he comes to Jesus. Jesus had already given up his ghost. They didn’t take his life. He laid it down. And it’s very important to understand. But then they take his body. Can you imagine for just a minute, the Jews, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, all the Romans, they were all happy he’s finally dead.

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The demons of hell, satan, they’re rejoicing because now in their minds, they’ve stopped God’s plan of redemption, so they thought. The Roman soldiers were preparing to roll a stone in front of the grave that they were going to put him in. The family was getting ready to prepare his body for burial.

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His disciples had scattered and Peter’s off somewhere. The Bible says weeping bitterly in the night. And it was, you and I call it Good Friday, but for them, it was the worst Friday ever. It was the worst day of their lives.

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It looked like this man that they put their hope and their trust in for three and a half years had failed them and he was dead. And I don’t know if you’ve ever seen somebody dead, but it looks pretty final. And they thought all hope is gone. But I wanted to remind them it was only Friday.

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Sunday was coming. Guys, if you’ll get those lights, I want you all to watch this video. After this video, we’ll take communion together. Get the lights for me and then Miranda, you play that. Watch this closely. Listen to the words. Can you make that screen bigger?

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turn it.

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All right, y’all can turn those lights back on. So just remember, it’s Friday, but Sunday’s coming. It’s coming. Dennis, y’all come on back. Listen.

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Guys, if you’ll get the trays and they’re gonna come by and when they do, they’ll hand you a cup that includes the juice and the bread. It’ll look like this. It’s all one. You just pull the juice out and the bread’s on bottom. Don’t take them, we’ll take them together. We’ll do it one at a time. We’ll start with the bread.

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And I’ll pray in between as we take the communion together. While they’re passing that out.

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Let me give you the backdrop to communion.

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Jesus took what we call communion or the Lord’s Supper with his disciples the night that he would be arrested, then a false trial, and then eventually crucified.

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But he sat down with his disciples and it was Passover, it was coming. And they were going to take the Passover meal together as all Jewish people did. It was a long tradition going all the way back when God had brought the Israelites out of Egypt. And that final night, the final night that they were to leave, that Moses was to lead them out.

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God had sent nine plagues upon Egypt. God told Moses, tell Pharaoh, let my people go, and he refused. And that final night, what God did, he said, I want y’all to sacrifice a lamb, catch its blood, cook that lamb, and you and your family, Moses, and all the children of Israel, you eat the lamb, you take its blood outside on the doorpost of your home or your tent.

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And with his sip you make a mark and that mark would have looked similar to that of a cross or an X on that post. And God said the death angel will pass over. The death angel was a symbol and a sign, an angel of God’s judgment. The firstborn of every home would die that night. But if the angel passed over a home and saw the blood applied to the doorpost, he would pass over.

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That’s what Passover means. In other words, God would have mercy because of the blood of the lamb. It was a symbol, remember I tell you, everything in the Old Testament pointed to the New Testament, pointed to Jesus. It was a sign that for you and I today, when we think of the judgment of God, the wrath of God, it was poured out on Christ, and when you and I received the blood,

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and the blood of Jesus is applied to us when we’ve been washed in the blood. God looks at us and says, mercy because of the blood. And so Jesus would take of that supper remembering that. I don’t know that his disciples fully understood. He was the fulfillment of the Passover.

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What was about to happen was he was going to be God’s lamb and the final lamb to ever have to be sacrificed. And so he took first the bread and he passed it around. They each took a piece of it. And he said, guys, I want you to remember, this is my body, which is given for you. And it was his body that I read to you in Isaiah 53 that was beaten and bruised and.

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And as you looked at that video a moment ago, just a Hollywood theatrical way to show the beating. And I don’t think that even does it justice. But you realize that his body was beaten and bruised and stripes laid upon his back, crown of thorns on his head, so that you and I could have forgiveness.

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Lord, we thank you for the body of Jesus that was given. Jesus, thank you that you gave yourself willingly for us. Thank you that you took all the beating. You took the wrath. Every stripe laid upon your back, we deserved. But you took it graciously and lovingly for us. And so tonight, we remember your death on the cross.

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We remember your body that was given. We remember the sacrifice you made of your life so that we could live eternally. In Jesus’ name we pray, amen.

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says after they took the bread, he passed a cup of wine and they each began to take a drink of that wine and he said, this fruit of the vine, this wine, it represents my blood, the blood of the new covenant. He said, it’s given for you. And I don’t know that they understood that completely in that moment. They would in a few days.

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But Jesus was about to spill his blood. The Old Covenant, Old Testament, where did it go and when did it change? It changed whenever the blood of Jesus was spilled. And that blood that he shed was perfect blood. The blood that he shed was innocent blood. Why did they have to sacrifice a lamb? What did a lamb ever do to deserve that? Nothing.

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That was the whole picture. Something innocent died for the guilty. Jesus was innocent and he died for the guilty. And his blood was shed, but that blood not only had the power to cover my sin, but it had the power to take away my sin. That’s why he said on the cross, it is finished. All the money in the world couldn’t buy my pardon.

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by forgiveness, but one drop of my Savior’s blood washed away my sin.” So tonight we take this wine as a representation and remembering of the blood that Jesus shed, his life he gave on the cross so that we could have eternal life. Jesus, we love you, we thank you for your death, thank you for your precious blood that we shed that the Bible says ransomed us.

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bought us back from the grip of Satan. And because of this, we have access to the Father. And we thank you for your sacrifice tonight. We remember you. We remember him. And thank you that we are a church family. We are a family. We are brothers and sisters in Christ, all made possible because of the blood that washes away our sin. In Jesus’ name I pray, amen.

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figure out which one you’re gonna do. Dennis.

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Got it? Okay, here’s what the Bible tells us. That night when Jesus took, when he took that supper with the disciples.

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And he told them, he said, I’ll not take it again with you till we’re in my father’s house. OK? And that had some sort of wedding implications, meaning the marriage separate the lamb. One day we will sit with him and all the family of God.

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we’ll take of that with Jesus. But until then the Bible says that as often as we do it, we do it and remember his death. But here’s the good news, he’s not still on the cross. We just remember tonight his sacrifice.

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We walk out of here tonight remembering they took him down, they put him in a tomb, and when we come back Sunday morning, we’re coming back to worship him as a risen savior. Somebody asked me this morning, they saw me at the bank, they said, hey, I heard y’all are having a Good Friday service. I said, yeah. They said, well, we don’t have a Good Friday at our church, we do a sunrise service. I said, I used to do that until I just realized by that time he done got up and gone anyway. I don’t need to, I can’t get up that early.

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So there are some churches in the area having sunrise services, but your pastor doesn’t like to get up that early. He done gone anyway, all right?

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But we’re gonna come back in Sunday morning and we come back to worship our risen Savior. Invite somebody, tell somebody, bring somebody, because I promise you of all times of the year, the easy time, easiest time, the one time you can sometimes get people to come to church to hear the gospel, the good news is Easter Sunday. So bring them and worship. And we’re glad, we have a few visitors in the house tonight. Thank y’all for worshiping with us. I met a few there from other churches

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that you would come and worship with us tonight. And pray you’ll come back. Not trying to take you away from your church, just want you to know how grateful we are that you chose to worship with us. And pray that the services at your home church will be exciting and wonderful on Sunday morning. Let’s stand together. The Bible says when they took communion together that night with Jesus, they got up, they sang a hymn together, and then they went out into the night where he would go to the Garden of Gethsemane.

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close together singing this song, this hymn with the praise team and when they’re done, you’re dismissed.

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Are you?

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soul cleansin’ blood of the land are your gormas spotless? are they white as snow? are you washed in the blood of…

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Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Are you fully dressed in His grace’s sough? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

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in the

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Are you washed in the blood of the lamb? Are you walking daily by the Savior’s side? Are you washed in the blood of the lamb? Do you rest each moment as the crucified? Are you washed in the blood of the lamb? Are you washed in the blood of the

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are you are

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The soul cleansed in blood of the lamb All your garments fall as all they white as snow Are you washed in the blood of the lamb? When the bridegroom cometh, will your robes be white? Are you washed in the blood of the lamb? Will your soul be ready for a major?

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in the blood of lane

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So Oakland’s in blood

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Are you washed in the blood of the lamb? Are you washed in the blood in the blood in the soul cleansing blood of the lamb? Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?

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in the blood of love.

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Thank y’all. Y’all have a safe evening. And we’ll see y’all Sunday.