24 Hours to Live | The Last Supper | Anthony Morgan

Holy Spirit, we bring our worship to you this morning. God, we give you our praise. Come on, let's sing this together. As the Spirit was moving over the water, Spirit, come move over us. Come rest on us. Come rest on us. As the Spirit was moving over the water, Spirit, come move over us. Come rest on us. Come rest on us. So come down, Spirit, when you move, you make my heart pound. When you fill the room, you're here and I know you are moving. I'm here and I know you will fill me. Come down, Spirit, when you move, you make my heart pound. When you fill the room, you're here and I know you are moving. I'm here and I know you will fill me. Make us aware of your Spirit, God. Come on, we sing. Fire and wind, come and do it again. Open up the gates, let heaven on in. Come rest on us. Yes, God. Come rest on us. Fire and wind, come and do it again. Open up the gates, let heaven on in. Come rest on us. Come rest on us. Come down, Spirit, when you move, you make my heart pound. When you fill the room, you're here and I know you are moving. I'm here and I know you will fill me. Come down, Spirit, when you move, you make my heart pound.

When you fill the room, you're here and I know you are moving. I'm here and I know you will fill me. Come down, Spirit, when you move, you make my heart pound. When you fill the room, you're here and I know you are moving. I'm here and I know you will fill me. Come down, Spirit, when you move, you make my heart pound. When you fill the room, you're here and I know you are moving. Holy Spirit, come rest on us. You're all we want. If you believe that, we sing it out. You're all we want. Holy Spirit, come rest on us. You're all we want. Yes, Lord, you're all we want. And Holy Spirit, come rest on us. You're all we want. You're all we want. So come down, Spirit, when you move, you make my heart pound. When you fill the room, you're here and I know you are moving. I'm here and I know you will fill me. Come down, Spirit, when you move, you make my heart pound. When you fill the room, you're here and I know you are moving. I'm here and I know you will fill me. Come down, Spirit, when you move, you make my heart pound. When you fill the room, you're here and I know you are moving. I'm here and I know you will fill me. Holy Spirit, come rest all night. You're all we want. You're scarlet day. You're all we want.

And Holy Spirit, come rest all night. You're all we want. You're all we want. We sing this together, church. Holy Spirit, come rest all night. We declare it's Jesus. Yes, Lord. You're all we want. And Holy Spirit, come rest all night. You're all we want. You're all we want. Amen. Yes, God. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Look at the flowers and all of their beauty I don't have to wonder, I know what you're So why would I worry at all? You're faithful to supply Everything I need, everything I need My Father has it, my Father has it Every single time the Lord will provide My Father has it, my Father has it Look at the sparrow, lacking for nothing No fear of tomorrow and what it will bring If I have you, I have enough Cause your love will satisfy Everything I need, everything I need My Father has it, my Father has it Every single time the Lord will provide My Father has it, my Father has it Seek first the kingdom and its treasures And everything else, it will be added All that I'm needing, I know the Lord will provide Cause I know my God's not empty handed And He gives us blessings upon blessings And I'm still believing, I know the Lord will provide Seek first the kingdom and its treasures And everything else, it will be added All that I'm needing, I know the Lord will provide

Cause I know my God's not empty handed And He gives us blessings upon blessings And I'm still believing, I know the Lord will provide Everything I need, everything I need My Father has it, my Father has it Every single time the Lord will provide My Father has it Seek first the kingdom and its treasures And everything else, it will be added All that I'm needing, I know the Lord will provide Cause I know my God's not empty handed And He gives us blessings upon blessings And I'm still believing, I know the Lord will provide I know the Lord will provide I know the Lord will provide I know the Lord will provide in multiple locations. We are so excited to get to worship with y'all this morning. Before we continue to sing to our God, let's take some time and say hi to the people around us. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi.

Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. I love you. I call you faithful for the promises you've kept and every knee you've bent. Lord, I'm so grateful you were with me every step. And I never will forget, cause when I think of how you blessed me, how your hands never let me go, never let me go. You have been so good to me. God, I can't believe how you love me. What a friend you have been. So good to me. God, I can't believe how you love me. What a friend you have been. What a friend. I call you savior for the blood that washed me clean, for the wrongs that you've redeemed. I know you're able, but my eyes don't have to see.

One more reason to believe, cause when I think of how you blessed me, how your hands never let me go, never let me go. You have been so good to me. God, I can't believe how you love me. What a friend you have been. So good to me. God, I can't believe how you love me. What a friend you have been. What a friend. What a friend, faithful friend, every season. For every morning, for every open door, I call you faithful. And I just want to thank you, Lord. For every mountain, for every time you've run me through, I call you faithful. And I just want to thank you, Lord, for your forgiveness, for how you never turned away. I call you faithful. And I just want to thank you, Lord, for your salvation. You paid the price I could not pay. And I call you faithful. And I just want to thank you, Lord. Oh, I just want to thank you, Lord. ♪ I just wanna thank you, Lord ♪ ♪ Cause you have been so good to me ♪ ♪ God, I can't believe how you love me ♪ ♪ What a friend you have been, so good to me ♪ ♪ God, I can't believe how you love me ♪ ♪ What a friend you have been, so good to me ♪ ♪ God, I can't believe how you love me ♪

♪ What a friend you have been, so good to me ♪ ♪ God, I can't believe how you love me ♪ ♪ What a friend you have been, so good to me ♪ ♪ God, I can't believe how you love me ♪ ♪ What a friend you have been, so good to me ♪ ♪ God, I can't believe how you love me ♪ ♪ What a friend you have been, so good to me ♪ ♪ God, I can't believe how you love me ♪ ♪ What a friend you have been, so good to me ♪ Thank y'all for being here today. Welcome to Compass where our mission is navigating people to God. It's real simple. We exist, our whole purpose as a church is to point people to, walk with people, and lead people to Jesus. And if y'all did not know, we are starting an 1130 service. We're launching it at Easter, but we're gonna continue after that. And so our ask from you guys is, would you be praying about who you could invite, who you can bring? And I just need to make sure that y'all hear this. I am not against bribing someone to come into church. Can I get an amen for that? And so after Easter, it's 1130 service. You just tell somebody, hey, come on, come to church with me. I will buy you lunch, and then you take them wherever they want,

and Pastor Luke will pay for it. Praise God, amen, somebody said amen. Hey, I wanna show y'all the power of an invite. Just about a year ago, we had a student. He got invited to church, and he started showing up. He came to a student conference with us. He came to our camp last year. And just last night, I get a phone call from his mom, and she says, hey, Anthony, I'd love to get baptized. When can we do it? And I was like, I'll go to the church right now and baptize you. Can y'all throw that picture up? This was last night. That's Cade and Avery baptizing their mom, Lindsay, last night. Watch this. All because of an invite. So you never know the impact of your invite. So would y'all pray about it? Think about who can you invite to Compass Church, the 1130 service. And would y'all, if Compass Mid-Cities is your home, would you pray about sitting a service and serving one of our services? By the way, my name's Anthony, one of the pastors here. If we have not met, or if you have not heard me preach before, I can be a little bit loud, and part of that is I'm just passionate about a lot of things.

One of those things recently I found out is youth sports. My son, Maverick, he's five years old. He decided to start playing soccer. And I told myself I would never be the dad who is yelling on the sideline until Saturday came around, and I am on the sideline about to have an aneurysm watching these five-year-olds chase around a soccer ball, and I'm screaming from the sideline. And so I might get a little loud, might get a little excited. The gospel makes me, gets me passionate. And so just be prepared for that. You know, before I jump in, I always like to honor a few people here. And can we just take a second to honor Pastor Luke and Kathleen Davison, the campus pastors here? Thank y'all for your leadership, sacrifice, and the vision here at Compass Mid-Cities, all right? I got a lot to get through, so I'm gonna pray real quick. Lord, help, amen. All right, let's just jump in here. Sometimes that's the best prayer y'all can pray, right? Just, Lord, help me, Jesus, all right? I'm gonna ask a question, what we call like a connecting question, and it's gonna make a few people offended, but some people are gonna get this. Really, this question is for the parents in the room. Have you ever been talking to like a young adult

or someone who doesn't have kids, and you go up to them and you say, hey, how are you? And they reply with this, man, I'm just so busy. And your face says, oh, I'm so sorry. But in your head you say, you don't know what busy is. Can I, any parents in the room, y'all feel me on that, amen? You just don't know, you don't got kids. Today, we're continuing this series called 24 Hours to Live. We are walking through the final 24 hours of the life of Jesus, and it's packed full, it's nonstop, it's as busy as a 20-year-old thinks they are. And as I prayed over this and studied for this message, I just kept thinking about, I can't stop thinking about this God-man named Jesus. He lived this perfect life, he loved people, he served people, he healed people, he preached about the new covenant of God, and he gets nailed to a cross for calling out hypocrisy by the religious leaders. And I just wanna remind you today before we jump into the scripture that living like Jesus doesn't absolve you from struggle. Living like Christ doesn't stop you from hurt, from betrayal, because you might be in this room today and maybe you gave your life to Jesus and you got baptized and you're looking up to heaven like, God, like, what are you doing? Like, I thought if I gave you my life, everything was gonna work out how I wanted it to,

everything was gonna be easy. Please hear this as a Jesus follower, as a Christian, your goal in life is not to receive the blessing of this world, it's to receive the blessing of eternal life, amen? And to bring as many people to Jesus as we possibly can. So today we're gonna be in Mark 14, 72 verses in this chapter leading up to the last 24 hours of the most influential person in all of history. In the final 24 hours of Jesus's life, Jesus will go from worshiped to crucified, from breaking bread to beaten, he'll go from serving others to being spit on. In this chapter that we're gonna read, Jesus fulfills eight Old Testament prophecies. Who we are about to read about Jesus the Christ is the man who split time into two. So let's go, Mark 14, we're gonna be in verse one, we're gonna go through this whole chapter here. Mark 14, verse one says this, now the Passover and the festival on unleavened bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were scheming to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him, but not during the festival, they said, or the people may riot. So we're gonna start beginning of this chapter, we're gonna walk through as many verses as we can over the next two and a half hours or so,

and so thanks y'all for joining us. I'm joking, it's only gonna take two hours. Anyway, I know that this is the first time you hear like what did I get myself into, but it's not gonna be that long, we'll get through this. One thing I find fascinating about this verses that we just read is that the chief priests and the teachers of the law, they're scheming to arrest Jesus in secret because they didn't want the people to riot. They knew how loved Jesus was by the people, but as we walk through this series, what you're gonna see is that the people who would have rioted for Jesus's arrest will be the same people yelling crucify him, crucify him. And oftentimes we do the same thing. We come to church on Sunday, it's like God, thank you. You're so good, you're so faithful, I love you. Everything is yours. And then Monday morning, we wake up, we miss our alarm. We run out of gas on the way to work and we look up to heaven like God, do you even love me? I'm done with you, God. And God's just like put gas in your car. Let's continue, verse three. While he was in Bethany reclining at the table, this is Jesus, in the home of, watch this, Simon the leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar or very expensive perfume made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.

Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, why this waste of perfume? It could have been sold for more than a year's wages and the money could have been given to the poor and they rebuked her harshly. Man, these few verses pack so much here. Jesus is in Bethany, which means the house of the poor or afflicted, that's what Bethany means. And he is showing this in the fact that he is at Simon, the leper's house. Man, isn't it so powerful that our God who is perfect, he is holy, he would show up and reside at the house of the afflicted. He sits with the broken, he loves the outcast. And as I'm writing this and praying over this message, I just felt like for somebody in the room today, you keep thinking to yourself, well, I gotta clean myself up first and then I'll come to God. Like, let me get everything right, I'm gonna make sure I'm reading my Bible every day, I'm gonna fast, I'm gonna do all this stuff, then I'll get baptized. I don't wanna be broken before I step into the. relationship with Jesus and Jesus is like no I show up to the broken I come to the afflicted I sit with the people who have been outcast it's so fascinating like this mentality that we have as human beings let me ask a question has anyone here ever had your house professionally cleaned like you've had a house cleaner come to your home okay y'all with your hands up did you clean your house before they showed up yes you

did yes you did yes it's like what why do we do that it's like I'm paying you to do this my question is why do we do that with Jesus why do we say you know what Jesus okay like I'm gonna go all in on you but let me clean up a few things first I'm gonna give you everything but let me just make sure everything's okay first and God's like no like bring me your brokenness bring me your failure you can step into that baptismal broken and messed up insane Jesus I just need you see this woman she takes this alabaster jar this is this white stone jar made of pure nard it was most likely imported from India and she breaks it and pours it on the head of Jesus and this fragrance fills this room I want to remind you today that that is what our worship should look like it's not holding anything back it's not calculated it's not hindered by what up other people might say about us it's broken it's valuable it's powerful our worship to God should be extravagant and sacrificial this perfume she breaks would have been worth a year's wage and she pours it on the head of Jesus and she is criticized for how she served Jesus let me just say this the way you serve the way you worship the way you love Jesus can we be honest it should be criticized sometimes people should look at you sometimes like you go to church on Sunday mornings twice you sit one and serve one you go to middle you go to the church on Wednesday nights and go on Sunday mornings you're crazy it's like I am crazy Jesus saved my life he gets everything amen man maybe if you're not being criticized for how you love Jesus maybe you're living too comfortably I knew that wouldn't get any amen so we're just gonna move on verse 6 is this Jesus is speaking he says leave her alone said Jesus why are you bothering her she has done a beautiful thing to me he says the poor you will always have with you and you can help them anytime you want but you will not always have me she did what she could she poured perfume on my body before him to be prepared for my burial I'm gonna stop there I love Jesus response here he says leave her alone he looks at us and you could help the poor anytime you want don't y'all find it fascinating when people criticize people for stuff that they aren't even doing I had multiple examples in here but I'm

just gonna use this one it's kind of like this and if we can be real in church it's man we get get we get grace from God it's like God thank you like thank you for your grace thank you for your forgiveness thank you for your love but then somebody hurts us or harms us or cuts us off in traffic and it's like you're dead to me I don't like you anymore and it's like the same grace we have received from God it's like it's so hard for us to show other people Jesus is saying you you could be doing this you're criticizing her for something that you could be doing and the reason why it was never about the poor for these people criticizing them Jesus in this woman it was always about themselves but for this woman for her it was about the most valuable thing in her life Jesus and it didn't matter what anyone else said it didn't matter what that she looked like a fool it didn't matter what was going on all that mattered was that she wanted to worship Jesus man I prayed that prayer for our church that wouldn't matter what's going on it wouldn't matter what people say it wouldn't matter the situation or circumstance that you're walking through is that all that would matter to us is Jesus and making Jesus known amen praise God thank you Jesus let that be us that Jesus would be our sole focus worshipping him let's move on verse 10 says this then Judas one of the twelve went to the priest to betray Jesus to them they were delighted to hear this and promised to give him money so he watched for an opportunity to hand them over this moment as Judas is watching this happen is the moment that Judas decides to betray Jesus if you don't know Judas was the treasurer of the disciples finances. We see that in John 12. The Bible says he would often help himself to whatever he wanted. And Judas loved money so much that he watched this woman pour a year's worth of wages on Jesus's head, but then sells Jesus for one month of wages.

Love Mark chapter eight says this, what good is it for man to gain the whole world yet forfeit his soul? Church, what is it for you? Like what's that one thing in your life that you say, God, like you can have everything, but don't touch this thing. God, I'll give you all things, God, take it all, everything's yours, but God, can I just keep this? What's that thing in your life where you're like, this is the most valuable thing to me and as Jesus followers, it has to be Jesus. It has to be following him. What's that thing you say, God, you can take it all, but you can't take this. Maybe it is money. Maybe it's time. Maybe it's a job. Maybe it's a person. Let's fast forward a bit. Jesus sends his disciples to prepare the upper room for the last supper and this starts the clock, the final 24 hours of the life of Jesus. At 6 p.m., we're in verse 17, it says this, when evening came, Jesus arrived with the 12. While they were reclining at the table and eating, he said to them, truly, I tell you, one of you will betray me, one of you who is eating with me.

They were saddened and one by one, they said to each other, surely, you don't mean me. It is one of the 12, Jesus replied, one who dips bread into the bowl with me. The son of man will go just as it is written about him, but woe to the man who betrays the son of man. It would be better for him if he had not been born. It's crazy to me that Jesus knows who is going to betray him and he is eating with the same person who's about to put him through the most gruesome torture the Romans could think of. And I don't know how y'all read the Bible, when I read the Bible, I usually put myself in the Bible and I usually, to be honest, I don't put myself on as the bad guy, I'm usually the good guy. And so I'm reading this, I'm like, if I was Jesus, which I know I would not have been Jesus, if I was Jesus, I would have pulled Judas outside and I would have said, Judas, I got some questions for you. And I would have pulled my camel skin sandal off and I would have whooped him like my Sicilian mom, Donna Randazzo used to whoop me. But Jesus, for him, it was never about the betrayal of one man, it was always about offering salvation to every man. And he is sitting and eating with Judas who is about to betray him. Can you imagine the grace and the love of our savior Jesus to share that meal with him?

Watch this in verse 22. While they were eating, Jesus took bread and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples saying, take it, this is my body. Then he took a cup and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them and they all drank from it. This is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many, he said to them. Truly, I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until the day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God. When they had sung a hymn, they had went to the Mount of Olives. Now we're gonna sit in this part for just a minute and we're gonna get ready to take communion in a few moments. The Last Supper is one of the most theologically rich and spiritually significant moments in the life of Jesus. See, the apostles, they are not just eating some random meal, they're eating the Passover meal. This was a meal that the Jewish people would eat every year to remember that God had delivered the Israelite people from Egyptian slavery. We read that in the book of Exodus. Every part of this meal told a story of God rescuing his people. And oftentimes, we take one cup and we drink it. There was actually four cups of wine that they would drink during this Passover meal.

And each one of these cups was tied to a promise made to Israel in Exodus 6. If you get a chance this week, read Exodus 6. I wanna read those to you. I wanna walk through these real quick. The first cup of wine was the cup of sanctification. And the promise we see is that in Exodus, we see God speak this. He says this, I will bring you out. Sanctification is this idea of taking you out, setting you apart, making you holy. And as Jesus follows, that's what God does for us. He takes us out, he pulls us away. He starts to make us holy. We are called to live. live set apart. Next during this Passover meal the people they would eat these bitter herbs to be reminded of the bitterness of slavery. The second cup during Passover meal was the cup of deliverance. The promise we see in Exodus is this promise, I will free you. And as they would eat this, eat this meal and drink this cup they would start to retell the story of the Exodus. They would talk about the plagues and they would talk about how God rescued the people of Israel. This cup was a reminder that God breaks the power of bondage. That as Jesus followers we can look at this and say God thank you that you break the power of bondage of sin and slavery in my life. That we don't have to live as slaves to sin anymore amen. The cup of deliverance is this beautiful picture for us as Jesus followers that we have been set free from slavery. They would then eat the main meal it would be roasted lamb unleavened bread and other traditional foods. It was important for them to do this to remember that Passover night. The third cup was the cup of redemption. This was the promise you see in Exodus 6 that God says I will redeem you. That word redeem is this

legal term of buying something back to purchase something to own it now. That word redeem is so powerful for us as Jesus followers because Jesus pays the price for our sin and we are redeemed and reconciled back to God. But Jesus as he's talking about this cup of redemption he says something different. He says this is the cup of the blood of my covenant which is poured out for many and he is pointing to the fact that he is going to be taking the place as the perfect lamb to be sacrificed on our behalf. Because during the first Passover if you don't know in order for the righteous judgment of God to pass over the home in order that you would not receive the wrath of God there needed to be a sacrifice to atone or to cover for your sins. And maybe you're here and you're like I'm not really a church person I don't I don't understand that why does God do that? Well the reason why God has to pour out his wrath is because God is good. Amen. And in order for God to be good he must be just. Amen. There must be payment for sin. And so the beauty and the pain of the life of Jesus is that he came as the lamb of God to take away the sins of the world. He came as our perfect sacrifice so that the wrath of God would not be poured out on us but it was poured out on Jesus. And so we have been redeemed we have been set free and now we get to stand in right relationship with God the Father because of the sacrifice of Jesus. Jesus's purpose the whole time was he was born to die so that we could live. Something else that is so fascinating about the Passover meal there was just a tradition called the Afikomen and what they would do is they would take three pieces of this unleavened bread that's this matzo they would stack it together and they would take the middle piece out they would break it in half they would wrap one half of it in a napkin or a cloth they would take that piece of bread and they would hide it away. Later in the meal after supper they would take this hidden piece and bring it back. They would break it into pieces and everybody would eat. So watch this this this tradition this bread is broken it's wrapped it's hidden it's brought back and then it's shared with everybody. Y'all see where I'm going with this? What happens to Jesus in the next 24 hours? His body was broken his body was wrapped his body was hidden

away and on the third day he was he returned and the gospel was shared with everybody. It's like for years they were pointing to this moment where our Savior Jesus would show up and redeem his people. The last cup of Passover meal was the cup of praise. This cup of praise was a cup to celebrate the relationship between God and his people. To take a moment and sing hymns and say God thank you. Thank you that we have relationship with you. That from slavery and bondage to freedom in the promised land. This cup of praise to say thank you God. So we're going to take communion together right now as a church. You can get your communion cup ready, and you can get that bread, you can take it out. This bread is a reminder of the broken body of Jesus that was wrapped, hidden away, but brought back to be shared with everybody, the body of Jesus that was nailed to the cross. You can take your bread, you can get your juice ready. This juice represents the blood of Jesus that redeemed us, covers us, covers us from the righteous judgment of God that passes over us, because the blood of the Lamb of God atones for us. Jesus paid the price for our sin, so we don't have to because we never could. You may drink the juice. Let's continue in this chapter. After the Passover meal, Jesus tells Peter this, he says, Peter, you're going to deny me three times before morning, and Peter replies with this, this is me. But Peter insisted emphatically, even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you. And watch this, Peter gets all the hate, but all the other disciples said the same thing. Could you imagine, Judas, yeah, me too, Jesus. Jesus is like, I know what's going on. Isn't it powerful that Jesus knew that Peter would deny him, yet three years earlier he chose him to be a disciple? And around midnight, Jesus takes Peter, James, and John to the Garden of Gethsemane, and Jesus prays this prayer in verse 36. He says this, Abba, Father, if you have a paper Bible, highlight that, underline that.

Abba, Father, he said, everything is possible for you, yet take this cup from me, yet not what I will, but what you will. I want to look at the Garden of Gethsemane and the Garden of Adam and Eve that they are sitting in, and the contrast between them. Adam and Eve are sitting in perfection. There's garden of beauty in the presence of God. There's holiness, there's beauty, there's no sin, no separation, yet they choose their will over God's will, and the curse of sin enters, pain, suffering, death, and the Bible says thorns, and Jesus is sitting in the garden, a garden of agony, praying, and he begins to take on the weight of the sin of the world. He's surrounded by suffering, looking forward to excruciating pain on the cross. The sin of all humanity is about to be laid on him. He's going to be falsely accused, beaten, mocked. He's going to have a crown of the curse laid on his head. He will go from hearing people yell, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest, to crucify him, crucify him, and he is so overwhelmed by the weight of what he's about to experience, he's sweating drops of blood. Watch this, Adam and Eve, they eat from the tree that brings death, but Jesus chooses to die on a tree that brings life, and he prays this prayer, Abba, Father, not what I will, but what you will, and I can't help but notice the juxtaposition that Adam and Eve called God Yahweh Elohim, which means powerful authority, that they had great fear of the Lord. They knew his power, but that's why when they sinned, they hid from him, but Jesus calls God Abba, Father, Dad, and I just think for some people in the room today, you have this great fear of the Lord as authority, and praise God, we need that, but you don't have great relationship with the Lord as a good heavenly Father. God is a powerful being, he's omniscient, omnipotent, he is sovereign, but he's also relational and loving and merciful. He's an intimate heavenly Father who wants relationship with you. And if you've been following Jesus because you're afraid of him striking you down,

maybe you're tired and worn out. It's time to start following him because God is your Abba, Father. At 1230, we see that Jesus is arrested in this garden. He's betrayed by Judas, the man whom Jesus washed his feet. And the disciples who said, I'll die with you, they flee. He's brought in the middle of the night, 2.30 in the morning to Caiaphas' house to a false trial. And he stands before the council. And the high priest stood up, verse 60. The high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, are you not going to answer? What is your testimony that these men are bringing against you? But Jesus remained silent and gave no answer. Again, the high priest asked him, are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One? Watch what Jesus says. I am, said Jesus. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven. I am, Jesus says. Echoing what God said to Moses in the Exodus right before he brings them out of slavery. This infuriated them, verse 63. The high priest tore his clothes. Why do we need any more witness, he asked. You've heard the blasphemy. What do you all think? They all condemned him as worthy of death. And then some began to spit on him. They blindfolded Jesus, struck him with their fists and said, prophesy. And the guards took him and beat him. And Jesus, this perfect man, healer, grace giver, merciful Savior. The one who shows up for the afflicted. The one who gives grace to the adulterer. The one who healed the sick, touched the leopard, brought the dead back to life.

Is beaten, spit on and shamed. And I want to remind you today that Jesus didn't just take our sin on the cross. He also takes our shame. That if you walked in today and you've been dealing with shame. If your life has been marked by shame. If the enemy has covered your eyes and shouts shame at you. And whispers, don't you remember what you did? Don't you remember those mistakes you made? You can't go to church. You can't get baptized. God doesn't want you. I want to tell you today that God doesn't just forgive us of our sin. He also takes upon himself our shame. And what the enemy wants to do is cover our eyes so we can't see the cross. And all we see is our past. But our perfect lamb of God not only forgives our sin. But he gives us freedom from our shame. Can I get an amen from anybody who is grateful for the freedom that we get in Jesus? Lastly, I'll close with this. Jesus is in the courtyard. And Peter is looking at this trial. He's watching Jesus, the man who saved him. The man who called him. Jesus is on trial. And the whole time Peter is quiet. The only time he would speak was when he would deny Jesus. And he does that three times. Can you picture it? Peter, the apostle. The man who got to walk on water with Jesus.

The man who said so boldly, Jesus, I'll die with you. Denies the very man who changed his life. But watch the redemption power of Jesus. I'll give you a spoiler alert. When Jesus dies, he resurrects, he returns. He makes Peter the leader of the church. And Peter, the same man who denied Christ and ran from him, gets up when the spirit of God falls. In the book of Acts. And he stands up and he preaches the gospel. And that day 3,000 people are saved. And I want to close this message to remind you that God is not too far. You are not too far gone from God. God has not turned his back on you. God is not done with you. God isn't mad at you. He's madly in love with you. The cross isn't for the perfect. It's for every person. That God has poured out his blood for you and his grace covers you. You are not too far gone from God using you. You have not turned your back too many times for God's faithfulness to run out on you. That the God of the universe wants to take you and use you to expand the gospel. Let's close out this message as I pray. God, what do you want? There's so much here. 72 verses. Eight prophecies fulfilled. God, what do we do as a church? And I just felt this from the Holy Spirit that it's time for us as a church to go all in.

It's time to break the alabaster jar. It's time to say, you know what, Jesus, you're my everything. And I know that there's people in the room, you've been living in shame and in fear of going all in on Jesus. For some of you, it might be time to get baptized. Say, you know what, it's time. You know, Lindsay, she got baptized. She had been praying about it and thinking about it and she was worried because she had walked through a hard life. She saw the date yesterday was 3-2-1 and she said, 3-2-1, go, it's time to go. She said, it's time for me to go. Maybe for you, it's time to serve, to go all in on Jesus. Maybe for you, it's time to tithe. It's time to take that thing that's at the center of your life and say, Jesus is yours. Maybe even if you're busy, it's time to say, God, I'm all in. And so I wanted to end like this and I was kind of wrestling with the spirit, the Holy Spirit, and then this kind of religious spirit. And I just, I wanted to give you an opportunity if that's you. If you're saying, man, like this God, man, Jesus saved my soul, He saved my life.

I wanna go all in. Maybe you've been living 90% in with Him, but you're saying today, I'm going all in on Jesus. I'm not running away, I'm not turning my back. I'm making the decision today to say, Jesus, you're everything to me. You're all I want. You are the sole focus of my life. If that's you, I'm gonna count to three. Would you stand to your feet? I wanna pray over you. And then we're gonna worship together and everyone can stand. But if that's you, on the count of three, you're saying, Jesus, I'm all in. And maybe you're already all in, just stand up for Him anyway. Ready, one, ready, two, ready, three. If that's you, would you just stand to your feet? If you're saying, Jesus, I'm going all in. Would you be bold in that? Say, man, I'm not chasing after this world. I'm standing for this God-man named Jesus. He saved my soul. He was spit on for me. He was beaten for me. He was nailed to a cross for me. So God, would you just move in this place? Spirit of God, as we go all in, would you move in power? God, would we begin to fill this room

with our friends and family members? Would we be bold in an invite to say, come on, come meet Jesus. He saved my soul. Come meet my Savior. He was beaten for me. He atoned for my sin, and now I'm set free. I don't live in slavery anymore. I live in freedom because of the sacrifice of Jesus. So God, today we make the declaration. We're going all in on Jesus. The world behind me, the cross before me, Jesus, my Savior, magnified and glorified in my life. We pray all this in the mighty, powerful name of Jesus. Can y'all shout amen? Amen, let's worship. Come on. Jesus, we worship your name this morning. All honor is yours. Oh, everything changed. It's getting harder to recognize the person I was before I encountered Christ. I don't walk like I used to. I don't talk like I used to. I've been washed from the inside. I've been washed from the inside. Come on. So do you, Jesus. I cannot explain, but nothing's more real than this. In the presence of God, what my heart experienced.

When my shame hit the wayside, and my sin met the morning light, I was washed from the inside. I've been washed from the inside. We sing. Hallelujah, hallelujah, I know it's true. I know it was a blood, could have only been His blood, hallelujah, hallelujah, I know it was a blood, could have only been a blood. Show me through your name, oh God. Take it for your mercy, Father. Show me through you, Jesus. We sing this out together. It's never been about performance, perfection, or striving for acceptance. Let me tell you, it's only by the blood. It's never been about deserving or earning. You can get the spirit you've been given. Let me tell you, it's only by the blood. Come on. Does anybody want to be holy and righteous? You're a dying fallen. Let me tell you, it's only by the blood. Does anybody want to be worthy, forgiven, justified, and delivered? Let me tell you, it's only by the blood. Hallelujah, hallelujah. I know it was a blood, could have only been His blood. Hallelujah, hallelujah. I know it was a blood, could have only been His blood. He said it's only through you. It's only through you. And hallelujah. Come on, church.

Hallelujah. I know it was a blood, could have only been the blood. We sing together. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I know it was a blood, could have only been the blood. It's hard.