Passion and Compassion: Jesus' Journey to the Cross
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"Let me remind you that anytime you're seeking Jesus, anytime you're hearing his word preached, you're thinking about Jesus, singing about Jesus, running after Jesus, it is the best investment of your life. No time is ever wasted sitting at the feet of Jesus. And sometimes you do that in the secret time in the morning, just you and a Bible and some worship and a cup of coffee, hopefully high octane. Sometimes you do that in your small group, and as we come together, we sit at the feet of Jesus and the goal is to be changed into his image. Life goal: to be more and more like Jesus." [00:39:48] (37 seconds)
"The centerpiece of the Holy Week was Passover. And Passover in antiquity, a Jewish festival, a high and holy holiday, was a seven-day gathering where people would come from every nation of earth and make their pilgrimage into the city of the great king to celebrate and worship. And there was dancing and music, and they would eat great meals. But they would come to the temple to offer sacrifice and have their sins atoned for. And so the Passover, it started some 1,500 years before Christ walked the planet. And when God brought his chosen nation out of bondage, many of you know the story of Egypt and Pharaoh and the plagues that fell upon Egypt." [00:43:38] (42 seconds)
"And when the death angel comes to Egypt, he will pass over you. And sure enough, they were saved and that was the moment of their freedom. But it was all a prophetic picture of what Jesus would do on the cross some 1,500 years later. Because at this Passover, the spotless lamb of God, he would walk up Mount Calvary. And he too would be sacrificed without blemish, without sickness, without deformity. The sinless one would be offered up and his blood would be put up on the doorpost. He would shed his blood on a post and that blood would trickle down and cover the sins of humanity." [00:44:54] (40 seconds)
"These 200,000 plus would make pilgrimage and some of them traveling for weeks, others for months to come into the city and to worship God and to celebrate this seven-day event. And there's a cameo of some Greeks that showed up at the party. And this is only listed in the Gospel of John. I love this verse, verse 20. It said, now there were some Greeks or Gentiles, non-Jewish people. Time out. Anytime you're reading the Bible and you see Gentiles, here's what it's talking about. People far from God. People that weren't raised in the synagogue. They didn't study the Torah. They weren't of the bloodline of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." [00:46:15] (39 seconds)
"Now, Jesus' anger, this holy anger, is also an attribute of redeemed people. Anger is not a sin as long as you're angry at what God's angry at. You know, the word tells us, in your anger, do not sin. One translation is more direct. It says, be angry and sin not. So God wants you to have some zeal and anger against the things that he's angry with. And that is, when dead religion and rules of men keep people outside the presence of God. That's what he's talking about. He hates anything that keeps people at a distance from him." [00:55:02] (39 seconds)
"And so somewhere they were left outside the presence of God. And here's what I want you to know. Jesus wants everyone to have access to the father and it angers him when dead religion or greed or the traditions of men or people's motivation of selfish gain keeps anyone at a distance when God is calling them close. It angers his heart. And so I want to be angry with what God's angry at, but God's not angry with people. It's what, let me say it this way. God doesn't hate anyone and neither should you as a Christ follower, but God hates the things that people do in their wickedness that keep people at a distance from him." [00:58:16] (44 seconds)
"So let me just make this apology along with a disclaimer of, if you come to the house of God, you are among people that have been broken by sin, that are redeemed by grace, but we're a work that's in a process of becoming more like him. And starting with me, I have some bad days. I don't always represent Jesus well. But I can say for me in this house and this staff, we're doing our best by the grace of God to remove every difficulty so that people who want to see Jesus can see him in this place. Is anybody with me?" [01:02:52] (34 seconds)
"God wants to fill children with the power of the Holy Spirit. You can have a salvation experience of five, six, seven years old that'll last you for the rest of your life. And so here at the house, in fact, one of my favorite meetings is something we call all staff. And so at all of our campuses twice a month, they drive in and we meet on a Tuesday morning in this building over here. We worship together and we have a culture chat and we share some different celebrations of things. And it's always mixed up. It's a variety of things. But one thing we do every time is this. We call it Winds of the Weekend." [01:01:25] (31 seconds)
"Jesus says, Simon, Simon Peter. And the double statement of his name, in the language, it's filled with emotion and sympathy. He's like, oh, Simon, Simon. Listen, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like grain. Now, in our culture, we don't know a lot about grain sifting. Not a lot of people sifting grain in their kitchens at home. But if you did, it means to grind it to powder, to throw it up in the air and let the breeze blow away the chaff. So in other words, Satan was saying, I wanna grind up and blow away your life, which is his job description, according to John 10, 9." [01:05:15] (35 seconds)
"Think about this kind of compassion Jesus was looking on the other side of his failure. He said, Peter, Peter, you're going to deny me three times but when you get back up, when you make a comeback, when you return, when you repent, restore your brothers, go encourage them. You see Jesus knew that Peter would preach on the day of Pentecost and 3,000 people would get saved. He saw a version of Peter on the other side of failure and he spoke to that he spoke to that season of his life. You know I wish human beings didn't have this default but I have it and so do you and it's this we freeze people with a picture." [01:08:28] (40 seconds)
"God didn't allow that my human will created that I look at the botched up messed up seasons of my life and when I track it down I realized the author of that mess was this guy and yeah there might have been some satanic influence and some things that god might allow through other people's brokenness but at the end of the day when I take responsibility for my brokenness here's what I see a redeemer that's wanted to see me come out the other side the whole time and he's looking in my eyes going son come on get back up you got this run again stand again so here's what I want for your life today is that you would see a glimpse of Jesus with this kind of compassion." [01:11:50] (40 seconds)
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"The centerpiece of the Holy Week was Passover. And Passover in antiquity, a Jewish festival, a high and holy holiday, was a seven-day gathering where people would come from every nation of earth and make their pilgrimage into the city of the great king to celebrate and worship. And there was dancing and music, and they would eat great meals. But they would come to the temple to offer sacrifice and have their sins atoned for. And so the Passover, it started some 1,500 years before Christ walked the planet. And when God brought his chosen nation out of bondage, many of you know the story of Egypt and Pharaoh and the plagues that fell upon Egypt." [00:43:38] (42 seconds)
"And when the death angel comes to Egypt, he will pass over you. And sure enough, they were saved and that was the moment of their freedom. But it was all a prophetic picture of what Jesus would do on the cross some 1,500 years later. Because at this Passover, the spotless lamb of God, he would walk up Mount Calvary. And he too would be sacrificed without blemish, without sickness, without deformity. The sinless one would be offered up and his blood would be put up on the doorpost. He would shed his blood on a post and that blood would trickle down and cover the sins of humanity." [00:44:54] (40 seconds)
"These 200,000 plus would make pilgrimage and some of them traveling for weeks, others for months to come into the city and to worship God and to celebrate this seven-day event. And there's a cameo of some Greeks that showed up at the party. And this is only listed in the Gospel of John. I love this verse, verse 20. It said, now there were some Greeks or Gentiles, non-Jewish people. Time out. Anytime you're reading the Bible and you see Gentiles, here's what it's talking about. People far from God. People that weren't raised in the synagogue. They didn't study the Torah. They weren't of the bloodline of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." [00:46:15] (39 seconds)
"Now, Jesus' anger, this holy anger, is also an attribute of redeemed people. Anger is not a sin as long as you're angry at what God's angry at. You know, the word tells us, in your anger, do not sin. One translation is more direct. It says, be angry and sin not. So God wants you to have some zeal and anger against the things that he's angry with. And that is, when dead religion and rules of men keep people outside the presence of God. That's what he's talking about. He hates anything that keeps people at a distance from him." [00:55:02] (39 seconds)
"And so somewhere they were left outside the presence of God. And here's what I want you to know. Jesus wants everyone to have access to the father and it angers him when dead religion or greed or the traditions of men or people's motivation of selfish gain keeps anyone at a distance when God is calling them close. It angers his heart. And so I want to be angry with what God's angry at, but God's not angry with people. It's what, let me say it this way. God doesn't hate anyone and neither should you as a Christ follower, but God hates the things that people do in their wickedness that keep people at a distance from him." [00:58:16] (44 seconds)
"So let me just make this apology along with a disclaimer of, if you come to the house of God, you are among people that have been broken by sin, that are redeemed by grace, but we're a work that's in a process of becoming more like him. And starting with me, I have some bad days. I don't always represent Jesus well. But I can say for me in this house and this staff, we're doing our best by the grace of God to remove every difficulty so that people who want to see Jesus can see him in this place. Is anybody with me?" [01:02:52] (34 seconds)
"God wants to fill children with the power of the Holy Spirit. You can have a salvation experience of five, six, seven years old that'll last you for the rest of your life. And so here at the house, in fact, one of my favorite meetings is something we call all staff. And so at all of our campuses twice a month, they drive in and we meet on a Tuesday morning in this building over here. We worship together and we have a culture chat and we share some different celebrations of things. And it's always mixed up. It's a variety of things. But one thing we do every time is this. We call it Winds of the Weekend." [01:01:25] (31 seconds)
"Jesus says, Simon, Simon Peter. And the double statement of his name, in the language, it's filled with emotion and sympathy. He's like, oh, Simon, Simon. Listen, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like grain. Now, in our culture, we don't know a lot about grain sifting. Not a lot of people sifting grain in their kitchens at home. But if you did, it means to grind it to powder, to throw it up in the air and let the breeze blow away the chaff. So in other words, Satan was saying, I wanna grind up and blow away your life, which is his job description, according to John 10, 9." [01:05:15] (35 seconds)
"Think about this kind of compassion Jesus was looking on the other side of his failure. He said, Peter, Peter, you're going to deny me three times but when you get back up, when you make a comeback, when you return, when you repent, restore your brothers, go encourage them. You see Jesus knew that Peter would preach on the day of Pentecost and 3,000 people would get saved. He saw a version of Peter on the other side of failure and he spoke to that he spoke to that season of his life. You know I wish human beings didn't have this default but I have it and so do you and it's this we freeze people with a picture." [01:08:28] (40 seconds)
"God didn't allow that my human will created that I look at the botched up messed up seasons of my life and when I track it down I realized the author of that mess was this guy and yeah there might have been some satanic influence and some things that god might allow through other people's brokenness but at the end of the day when I take responsibility for my brokenness here's what I see a redeemer that's wanted to see me come out the other side the whole time and he's looking in my eyes going son come on get back up you got this run again stand again so here's what I want for your life today is that you would see a glimpse of Jesus with this kind of compassion." [01:11:50] (40 seconds)
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