XXXIII, Good Friday

Hello, hello friend. Thank you so much for tuning in here at Free Life Chapel, where we help you discover and live the free life in Christ. My name is Kati and I'm so glad that you're tuning in with us. If you ever find yourself in the central Florida area, come visit us. We want to connect with you face to face. But until then, visit our website freelifechapel.org to find out more about what's happening at your church. There's a phenomenal message in store just for you. I hope you're encouraged. In Jesus' culture, he was in training for 30 years. It was only after you turned 30 that you could become a priest. Jesus was in training for 30 years and only ministered for 3. He did a lot in 3 years, didn't he? Like when you open your Bible and you read the stories of what he's teaching and the miracles that take place, all of that happened in 3 years. That wasn't when he was in his 20s. That only happened between 30 and 33 because he would not have been legitimate in anybody's eyes in his culture. He followed the footsteps. He followed what the rabbis taught because he was very locked into his culture. He was 30 years old when he became the Levite and 3 years he did his miracles and his teaching. His goal when he came was to actually heal the divide between man and God. That's what I want to talk to you tonight. This Good Friday service, what makes it good? There's nothing good about it when you look at it. It was bad for Christ, but good for us. Would you tell somebody, it's good for me. It's good for me. I'm so glad. I'm so glad that he did this. I want us to take a sincere look at what he did and actually find the blessing, the power, the benefit, the impact and remind us what it is that he did on this Friday. Different than what happens when he gets up out of the ground. This night is different. This sacrifice is different. We can't just run it all together because the climax of Jesus' purpose on the earth, it all hit at 33 years old with a sacrifice that nobody else could do. A lot of good people had died for good reasons before now, but nobody had done what Jesus did. On that night, on the night where the whole passion actually began, it started with the meal. Jesus and the disciples were around a table and Jesus is talking with them about what's going to happen. He began to talk about how this bread is my body and this cup is my blood. He's expressing to them what's about to happen. It was a Passover Seder if you have any context as to what that is. And then he left that meal. He left that meal and went to a place called Gethsemane to go pray.

Gethsemane is a little area where it's filled with olive trees because Gethsemane was an olive press. It's a place where they took olives and they put them on a big rolling stone slab and they crushed the olives to squeeze the life out of them. That's why Gethsemane literally means the place of pressing. Jesus is in a place of pressing where the life is being pressed out of him to the point that he is now sweating great drops of blood in Gethsemane. Remember the prayer that he prayed, Father let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not my will but your will be done. Big prayer. He didn't want to go through this. He knew what was on the way. He was fully conscious, fully aware of everything that was about to happen. He knew on the God side of who he was. You see, he was 100% man and 100% God at the same time. So while he was a human like you and I, he was fully aware looking backwards on this as to what was going to happen. He knew the beating. He knew he was there when the man who was going to beat him was created. He knew the stories behind every person that he would look at face to face. And the only reason they were still sucking air is because he gave them breath that morning. And here he is and he's in this place in Gethsemane and he says let this cup pass from me. That sounds like a prayer I would pray. That sounds like a prayer you would pray and rightfully so. He prayed one aspect of that prayer in his humanity and then he finished the prayer nevertheless. He finished it in surrender and submission to his father. Nevertheless not my will but your will be done. From that point on the Roman soldiers came. They arrested him. Judas kissed him, sold him out for 30 pieces of silver. We see him arrested and he's put on a kangaroo trial by the religious elite. They bring him in blindfolded. Began to beat him mock him laughing and prophesy who was it that just hit you then they took him from there and took him to pilot why pilot because pilot was the was the man that was

Oh that represented Rome the power the authority that was existent there And so they wanted to get his approval and the religious didn't want to get Jesus's death on their hands So they would turn him over to Rome so we convicted him as a Jew But now we want you to do our dirty work you do the killing and pilot looks at him and goes I can't find anything wrong with him and the scriptures tell us that pilots wife had heard of Jesus pilots Leave it to a woman pilots wife was fully aware of who Jesus was and she told pilot You better not put a hand on him. You better not touch him. You don't know who this man is He's done some credit. You got to read your Bible. Yeah. Yeah, you don't want to be a part of this So pilot like backs up and he goes look. I don't know what to do In fact, let me send him to Herod Herod was the king of the Jews who was appointed by Rome and so he sends him to Herod trying to get Jesus off of his Responsibility and and then then Herod turns around and sends him right back again And so so we've got this interplay of people. What do we do with him? Pilot now was looking at him and he goes I still can't find anything wrong with him There's there's nothing I can leverage against him that deserves Crucifixion and so Jesus brings him to the people. He says would do you want Jesus or Barabbas? Which one do you want? I'm gonna give you one of the prisoners and and the crowd begins to scream for Barabbas Give us the thief give us the murderer. Give us him kill Jesus this was what the crowd this is not the same crowd that celebrated when he came into Jerusalem This was a religious crowd that had all been put together to make sure that Jesus was silenced once and for all From that point on pilot then said fine if you want to go here We'll go here and so then he releases them to start the flogging now the Roman soldiers They pull out what's called a cat of nine tails That is a that's a piece of wood about 18 inches long that has nine strips of leather hanging off of it Inside laced inside of the leather as bone and pieces of metal and things that are sharp in nature that would leave after he was Beaten with 39 stripes over 1,400 wounds on his back In fact the way one New Testament writer writes it that by his stripes you are healed

Literally, the word is not stripes but stripe because there was nothing left to his back You couldn't count stripes. His back was gone when they finished So this is what beat Jesus then they put a crown of thorns on his head They put a purple robe on his back and pressed it into the wounds that they had just made through the beating Then they begin once again to mock him and punch him and revile him laughing at him In fact, the Bible says they beat him in the head with a rod Pilot then goes back to the people I've done my part. Will you please take him? And the people began to cry crucify him You see this is this is odd because in this Roman culture in this day and age The Romans would either beat you or crucify you you never did both Jesus had already been beaten 39 times I don't have time to get into the district is that descriptives as to what that would look like and how that would go down It's very meticulous and it's not just my opinion even medical doctors have written about this It is heinous what would happen because it wasn't just his back those strips of leather would wrap around his side They would grab his stomach They pulled off everything from his hindquarters to his stomach to his side that many say that you could see his kidneys from behind It wasn't that he was just beaten to be weak muscle was missing from his back They were beating the life out of him and then everyone says now crucify him So Pilot said fine and pilot goes and he washes his hands. He said I'll have nothing to do with this You want him crucified? We'll crucify him and they did They put a beam on his back would have weighed a hundred and ten pounds Just after the beating Again, not in a weakened state in a state where the muscle is gone. The muscle can't be weak. It doesn't exist anymore The beam of a hundred and ten pounds was laid across his back and he's told take it carry your cross up a hill to Golgotha He gets to the top He lays himself down on this They put the the beam across that was across his shoulders on an upright post They nailed him to this post one in each hand one spike in each hand

It would have been in this area right here never in the hand Jesus's body would have pulled off if the nails were there He they put it right here so that the nail would be cinched between the all-night and the radius of the arm and it would hinge on the wrist and he could hang suspended there. So they nailed him to this cross. They drew one spike through both feet and suspended him between heaven and earth. And according to timelines, if you read the timelines and you begin to work the gospels, and I did this all over again this week, he was hung at 9 a.m. in the morning. That means he was beaten before 9 a.m. The sun went black on him at 12 noon. I wish I had time to get into that. And then he died at 3 p.m. in the afternoon. He was on the cross for six hours. Why did he die at 3 p.m.? Because that was the exact time when all Passover lambs were dying in the temple. The Lamb of God was dying while the lambs for sacrifices were happening. And according to Josephus, a historian and a writer, Jewish writer, there was upwards of one, over one million people in Jerusalem expected somewhere around 250,000 sacrifices going on. And here Jesus is dying on the cross at the exact same time. It's a heinous picture and we've seen the movies and we've heard these stories. And I've got to tell you,

this year it just hit me different all over again. I've read it, I've heard it all my life, I've preached it, but there's something about reawakening that and it hitting you deep again and reminding you what our Savior did for you and for me. And the only reason is because of love. There was no obligation, there was just love. We didn't deserve it. I'd done nothing for him to say, thank you, Scott. Are you kidding me? That was just love put him on the cross, love kept him on the cross, not nails. Love did that, God's love for you and for me. It's rocked my world. I found myself crying throughout this week. During worship tonight, I could hold it together. I'm almost dehydrated. I'm like puddles coming out. I'm just the awareness of what he did for you and for me. And as he's sitting on, as he's on the cross, the last thing he said, and we know this in the gospels, John chapter 19, verse 30, John says this, when he had received the drink, Jesus said, read this, it is finished. And with that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. It is finished, tetelestai in the Greek, tetelestai. There's, I wanna focus for the closing moments of tonight and draw your attention to this word. Because there's something inside of this word that if you and I don't understand why Jesus said this

and what was meant when he said it, we will miss a great part of the impact of what you and I get to be here for and celebrate tonight. And so you're gonna have to excuse me because for the rest, I've got nothing but good news. Is it okay if we talk some good news right now? Because all that stuff beforehand, man, that makes me feel heavy and I'm not enjoying any of that. I gotta tell you right now, I hate even talking about it. It guts me to talk about it. But I wanna show you something on the other side of this. When Jesus said, it is finished, tetelestai, I've gotta take you here. There's two big keys inside the grammar of what he said. The Bible is so specific. It's not just the words, it's the grammar that is used to begin to reveal the impact of what he said. Tetelestai means it is finished. But I want you to understand, number one, that tetelestai is a word that's used in the perfect tense, which just means this. It describes a completed action in the past that has a continuing result for the future. So it's perfect tense, like it was done then, but all that was done then for what's about to come. That's locked inside just the grammar, all right? So you'll hold on. And then the second part of this grammatical picture is this word then, it pushes our attention to see the present results of the action

that has been finished. In other words, the Bible is telling us this, in the perfect tense, his death is the death for all time. It wasn't just a one-off event. It was done today and it will last for eternity. That's the first picture. And then the word comes and it tells us this. It's an action that was finished, so I need you to look ahead, which means do not focus on the cross. I need you to focus on the results of what the cross did. That is finished, and I finished that so that you could have this. This is grammatically what's even just locked up inside of this, where the removal. The defeat of sin has been done This this word to tell us die has four different meanings how it was used in the culture And I got to take you here real quick and show you this This is this is so cool because it's got greater meaning than what you and I can read when people read this phrase It is finished. It seems to be all and he's gonna drop his head and die. It's so sad You need to understand it is finished was a declaration of you should have killed me a long time ago If you thought you're gonna shut me down But now the best is yet to come this this it is finished was a whisper of victory You thought you if in fact the Bible says if the enemy would have known what he was doing He never would have had Jesus crucified So Jesus is about is it this it is finished is kind of smack-talking the enemy Right at the end where the enemy is about to throw a party the balloons are about to hit in fact the confetti's flying and once the confetti flies and Jesus says it is finished the enemy's like Stopped the party. What have we done? Anybody ever played anybody ever played Jenga?

Y'all know you're so Jenga's the stack of blocks, right? And everyone's got a pull a block one at a time And you got to go around in circles and and the goal is to to not be the one who makes everything topple Y'all know what I'm talking about? Yeah Well what happened here on on it is finished the enemy thought he was pulling a safe block and it was all over Only for Jesus to say all you shouldn't have pulled that block right there because that's where the whole thing fell He thought he had it all together only for Jesus to flip the script. Here's what I want you to understand. It is Finished it that phrase literally meant this the sacrifice is completed He's 33 and he's finished with the sacrifice. In fact in the Hebrew the word would be Shalem It means complete whole Peaceful promises have been kept and there's a reference to a reward now that is coming You see this this phrase was very popular in Jesus's culture It's the same phrase that rabbis would speak on the day of Yom Kippur The one day a year that sins would be forgiven one day a year. You didn't go get forgiveness of sin every day There was one day a year that sins would be forgiven and the high priest would take the lamb Kill the lamb put it on the altar go into the Holy of Holies and he was sprinkled the blood there and when God saw The blood the sins of Israel was forgiven They were they were covered for another year, but they had to do this over and over and over Every year again, the animal could only cover sin It could not take it away But when the high priest finished on the day of Yom Kippur, he would step outside of the tent and he would shout Shalom Which means it is finished and Everybody exhaled and we're so grateful because they knew that they were back in right standing with God What what is atonement at one meant with God again? We are one. There's nothing separating us There's nothing dividing us. We're all back on the same page again Jesus had heard this word the Jews in the area. They had heard this word We read our Bibles that it tells us that he said to test a lie That is the Greek translation of what Jesus would have also declared when he said Shalom as a Jew

That's what he was said But here's what I want you to understand in order to have Yom Kippur you have to have two things a priest and a lamb There had to be a lamb that was that was identified a lamb that was perfect a lamb that was spotless a lamb that was Without blemish, that's what it took in order to cover sins in the Old Testament so for Jesus to be a legitimate sacrifice a priest had to identify and qualify Jesus publicly in order for him to be allowed to be the Sacrificial lamb. So where do you get that priest that would be willing to qualify Jesus publicly? Because all of them have been working to get him killed Where do you find a priest that could qualify him so that he is fitting every type and shadow of the sacrificial lamb? Well this priest in order to to be a priest you had to be born inside the lineage of Aaron Aaron was the first high priest watch this watch this. This is amazing and Before Jesus was born. In fact six months before he was born There were two descendants of Aaron the high priest Their names were Zechariah and Elizabeth and They had a little boy named John You might know him as John the Baptist He was the forerunner of Jesus He was the one that was going out and proclaiming who Jesus was going to be and the Bible tells me this in John chapter 1 verse 29 John saw Jesus coming down On the road and he declared behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world You have to understand what happened his statement about Jesus was not an opinion. It was an official priestly ruling identifying marking and Qualifying him to be the lamb that could die for the sins of humanity once and for all These comments were intentional. It was laid out and purposefully built just the way it was supposed to be So Jesus is filling two roles on the cross while he's dying because you have to have a priest and you have to have a lamb This tells me this That he was our sacrificial lamb, but he was also a high priest watch this as a lamb He became our final sacrifice as a priest. He performed the sacrifice and he was the mediator over his own death He was the one who allowed it to happen He was there overseeing and watching the entire process

In fact pilot looked at him in his questioning and pilot says don't you know? I could release you or have you crucified and Jesus said you've got no power that I didn't give you Y'all that's boss right there. That's straight-up boss that said that Jesus wasn't confused in this entire process So When Jesus said watch this it is finished He said it is finished as the high priest on the day of Yom Kippur Just like it happened in the Old Testament Once a year there were sins were covered But Jesus is now the priest on the cross and when he shouts it is finished in fact The rabbis right rabbinic history tells us that when the priest would step out and he would declare it is finished His voice could be heard for 15 miles away Something supernatural will come on him so that everybody in surrounding areas would know that once and for all it was covered When Jesus is on the cross and he announces it is finished. Let me remind you. He's been beaten He's been up all night long. He's Dehydrated he's missing parts of his back. He's a he's famished. He's had no food He's been hanging on a cross in the Sun for six hours when he says it is finished ladies and gentlemen That was not a whisper. He didn't just let that trickle out of his mouth. So some bystander they think they heard something He was our high priest so that when he said it is finished The Bible says the very next thing that happened an earthquake hit the ground Everything began to shake because there though It's that priestly anointing that came on Jesus that when he declared it is finished We're back to a day of Yom Kippur to put man and God back on the same page again But not just to cover the sins but to remove the sins once and for all Never to have another sacrifice again Somebody shot that's my god. Yes. Yes. Yes So number one it is finished The sacrifice is complete is what to test alignment. But number two, it also means this culturally The mission is accomplished

The mission is accomplished You have to understand in the Greek culture Whenever a servant was sent on a mission and he completed the mission and he came back to his master Came back to the servant came back to the to his employer. He would tell that person to test a lie. I Did it I completed it. I did everything you asked me to do. The mission is finished. It's done. It's complete But the question has to be asked when you hear the phrase it is finished you need to discover what is it Because it means several things if I'm working and someone's sent on a work job, then okay, I know what it was Well, what was it that Jesus finished Jesus finished the purpose of God for his life? Well, then tell me what the purpose of God was you've known it all your life for God So loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever Whosoever would believe in him will not perish but have everlasting life Jesus's cry that was an announcement that day to the world that God's will has been finished at 33 I did it at 33. I finished what it was that he called me to do It was a shout of victory. It was not a shout of defeat. It was finishing Done it in the face of every obstacle in the face of my humanity that wanted to walk away and shut it down My mom is watching this happen my mom My brother, my cousins, my family, they're all watching this take place. The disciples are there. People are crying, it's a mess. I could call 10,000 angels right now and wipe them all out. I could steal the breath out of their body. I've gotta guard my thoughts because one divine thought in the wrong direction will end this entire thing. I've gotta hold it together if I'm going to complete it, and the Bible says he did.

Mission accomplished. The victory was his, tetestulai. It's done, but tetestulai also means this. In the business world, this word was used, which means the debt is gone. This is a big, it was well understood. This was prolific. Tetestulai was used to announce that a debt had been canceled, either canceled or paid off, one of the two, but the debt was paid in full, that nothing else is owed, and they would do this in a few different ways. The contract that the agreement was written on, whenever they came to the end and it was paid in full, a couple of things would happen, one of two ways. The person who owned the contract, not the person who was indebted, but the person who then had the power of the contract, he would walk in and he would take a sponge, he would take something wet, and he would begin to wipe and scrub the parchment because it was hard to just cover it with ink, that they would blot out the debt, smear it so it was no longer seen, or they would come in and the man who owned it, who was saying, yes, you paid it off, he would put a massive X on it, and that X was also a declaration to all that were around that this debt has been paid in full.

In Colossians chapter two, verse 14, it tells us that your debt and my debt was nailed to the cross, which is exactly what somebody did when they paid a debt off. They were so excited, they would take that parchment outside, and historians tell us they would nail it to the post of their house, so everybody who walked by, they would see that and realize, wow, this is a good guy, his debt has been paid. Ladies and gentlemen, let me help you with something. There was a debt you could not afford to pay. There was something I owed that I had no capacity to fix that situation, but one greater than I, his name is Jesus, he stepped in, he said, I got you, dog, I got you, and he stepped in. This is before I knew him, before I cared about him, I was acting a fool, I didn't love him, but he said, I love you, in spite of you, Scott, I'm gonna do something for you to testilize, shalem, it is finished, I'm wrapping it up, and I'm gonna forgive you, I'm gonna blot out all that's wrong, I'm gonna put my mark on your life, and I'm gonna nail it to the cross. Your debt is over. Would somebody shout debt-free, just shout debt-free in this room.

All debt of sin, failure, wrong, it's gone. There's nothing else you can do. Ladies and gentlemen, you've been set free from the debtor. I don't know what your life was like before Jesus, but that's over. The anger, the mess, how you ran the streets, what you used to do, the murder, the pride, the rebellion, the jealousy, the anger, the lust, the past, all of that stuff, that is gone. It's over, blotted out, marked out, nailed to the cross, it is done. Let me help you with something. If you're eating lunch and somebody says, hey, I wanna buy you lunch, your first answer is an immediate yes. I recommend it. And after they pay for that lunch, you don't owe anything else. It's done. Stop trying to pay for a lunch that's already been paid for. Because you can't afford it anyway. I've been taken to some dinners before by some people that were classy. I don't know why I was there, but we walked in and it was the kind of place that they don't even put the prices on the menus, they just have the food listed there. And I'm like, excuse me, can I have a bite? And I'm like, excuse me, how much is this?

And I'm like, okay, I'll take like a half a head of lettuce and a little bit of like, what in the world? And I'm just sitting there and the people who took it said, we got this, don't worry about an order, whatever you want. I'm like, thank you. And so man, I had a good time. I'm just telling you right now that Jesus has taken you places and paying for stuff that you could never afford so you can have an experience in life that you could never have, why? Because it is finished, to test the line. It's over when he died on that cross. Oh, I love this. Colossians 1.14 says his son paid the price to free us, which means that our sins are forgiven. Your debt is gone. This fourth and the last one is this, to test the line, it literally means new life. Jesus is on the cross, y'all, and he's announcing good news with his last breath. He wasn't crying in defeat, they beat me, they got me, it's over. But he's shouting, oh, sookie sookie. Okay, that's my translation, that's what I say. This word literally, tetestulai, it means the end of one season and the start of another. It could be used at the end of a year and starting another year, tetestulai, it is finished, which means it is starting. That's exactly, that's exactly what's going on. It was the turning point in a person's life, it's when the old was changed over to new. The old is gone, the new is here. Jesus said, it is finished, new, your new life is here.

So he moved your mess from today to yesterday. He put a time stamp on your life, you're no longer your past, you're no longer how you used to think, you're no longer how you used to act, that's over, it is finished, you're no longer your reputation, you're more than that. The Old Testament prophecies are now fulfilled, it's solid. Now we've got B.C. and A.D., Jesus' death literally split time down the middle. Now you've got everything before Christ and everything after Christ, or like I, I like to say before Christ and after delivered, because that's our testimony in here. You've got a B.C. before you knew Jesus, and then after you said yes to Him, you — after that delivered state. We like you in your A.D. more than we liked you in your B.C., I promise you right now. This is our reality, and the distance between God and man is gone. When Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, the perfect place, why was it perfect? It wasn't because the fruit was great, it wasn't because the animals were great, it was because God's presence was there. And man, watch this, man walked with God one-on-one, face-to-face, talked. Adam and Eve rebelled against God, sinned, watch, they were evicted. When they left, the Bible says that God put two cherubim, angels, looks like some of the guys walking around Freelife Chapel here, these two cherubim, and they've got a flaming sword standing at the entrance to the Garden of Eden to block it so they could never come back. If they tried to cross it, they would die. You don't cross a cherub angel. He was the guardian, watch this. Jesus is on the cross, and he's also operating as our priest, you see, here's what's interesting. Those two angels were also woven into the tapestry of the veil that went into God's presence in the temple. So in other words, to get to God's presence, the priest had to go through a veil, and on that veil were these two angels that were woven into the tapestry to remind them of the Garden of Eden, that that was God's original plan for your life, it was busted, now these

angels are here to remind you that God's presence is holy, and you can't stand his presence because if I come into contact with God, I won't be able to handle it. And so the priest, the only way he was allowed to go in there and the only day a year is if he was taken the blood of a sacrifice in order to sprinkle the blood, and then he would come out and he was safe, but he had to go through that veil. You see, here's what I want to remind you of, when Jesus said, it is finished, and the ground shook, the earthquake hit, the Bible says that the veil in the temple was ripped from top to bottom. What was it about that? That wasn't just dramatic, there's a message inside of that, that you and I get to live out now. Because here's what happened, when it ripped from top to bottom, it split the two angels apart. They were no longer united together, guarding the presence of God as if they were guarding the perfect Eden that God had. When the veil split, then all of a sudden divine access was given to you and I, but Scott you said, if someone crosses the angels, they've got to die, exactly. Jesus crossed in on your behalf and mine. It killed Him, but it gave divine access to you and I to recreate our connection, our oneness and our unity with God. Ladies and gentlemen, you are more hooked up than you understand. In other words, God's trying to take you back to a place where you and Him are talking face to face, heart to heart, I'm for you in your marriage and I'm for you at school and I'm for you in the dating. Relationship, but I'm for you in business and I'm for you as a single mama. I'll help you. You've got divine access to my presence All of this Was to keep reminding us who he is and what he did 2nd Corinthians 5 17 says this anyone who belongs to Christ is a new person the past is forgotten and Everything is new

Would you stand to your feet in this room, please Shalem To test a lie It is finished That wasn't a wasn't a cry of defeat. It was a shout of victory There's a shout of we did it and now hey hell is going to pay back Everything is stole from you. I Gave it all To bring us back into covenant relationship heart to heart one-on-one with God no longer going through a man No longer having to perform rituals. You've got divine access to him It is finished Sacrifice is complete Mission is accomplished Dead is gone And a new season is here Does that sound like good news to anybody other than me? It took a cross to accomplish that heads bowed and eyes closed in this room If you're here tonight you see Scott Maybe you've grown up in church Been around church for a while, but you didn't really fully understand what Jesus did It hits different. You see it. I get it Man for me, and I'm telling you yes for you especially for you And tonight you say I want to I need to get my heart right with God I want to give I want to give Jesus my life if he would do all that for me. How can I not if? He would go all the way and take my place. I deserve that cross. I deserve that beating I deserve that ridicule, but he took my place He did that so I wouldn't have to that's exactly what I'm telling you and he finished it So there's nothing you can add to it Now live your life full of him if you're in this room and you say Scott I want Jesus in my life

I want to give him me brand new fresh clean. I'm ready to go hard I want to just I want to do what I can to know him experience about I'm gonna fail I know I'm gonna mess up, but I'm I'm gonna keep coming after him I I want to know him that way on the count of three if that's you all heads bowed eyes closed if that's you on The count of three I just want you to shoot your hand in the air whenever you know whenever you're ready one two Three right now shoot that hand in the air You can put the hands down Heaven took a picture Heaven didn't see your hand heaven saw your heart Heaven saw you reaching for him You're not raising your hand in a room in Lakeland, Florida You've got heaven's full attention right now He's excited about this moment with you because there's something's gonna transpire in this room that we're about to pray and you're gonna go from BC to AD something's about to change in your life Everything becomes brand new from this point on I want everyone to pray this prayer Jesus Come into my heart Forgive me Change me I believe You died for me You took my place I'm so grateful. I Have no way to express it Except to give you me in my mess And my failure I give it all Come into my heart Change me Forgive me be my Savior. I Love you, I honor you in Jesus name

Amen, can you put your hands together in this room for people? Hands all over this room hands all over this room Wow I'm gonna pray for all of us in this room But here's what I want to challenge you if you raised your hand, maybe you didn't even raise your hand, but you You raised your heart. I Want to encourage you to scan the QR code they're gonna put up here and let us know that you know what I I gave Jesus my life tonight We're not going to go public with that. We're not printing it anywhere We just want to follow up and just let you know we're here for you. We love you We need community to do this life together And that's how you really step in if you're if you're serious you want to go hard You want to lean in and really start taking some steps will help you. We've got just as many issues as you do The person beside you is jacked up. They are Mess I'm telling you right now. We we all got stuff ain't nobody got it all going on No, there is not no there is not starting with the guy holding the mic right now. We all have our stuff That's why we need Jesus. Well, that's that's why we need Jesus once and for all done. No more sacrifice day He paid the debt it's done. And so but we do this in community. We walk this out together scan that QR code Just let us know I step I accept Jesus tonight. We want to follow up privately with you Encourage you love you And if you don't want us to follow up anymore tell us and we'll stop we just want to reach out and connect with you Now I want to pray for all of us in this room father. Thank you That we can stand here on this night. That is typically called Good Friday. And the truth is we're overwhelmed by this moment Because of the price that was paid as we look and we reflect on what Jesus did for us that we could never do for ourselves Nobody in human history has ever done this nobody Thank you Jesus For this price that you paid him for what we get to live because of your sacrifice tonight We give ourselves to you fresh and a new again We we open our hearts again, and I ask God that you would remind us of what your son went through Jesus I pray that that you would remind us through your spirit as to the price that you paid for us the love that you have

For us that we would feel your love not not be mesmerized by a cross But because that's over now we look into the future and we live out everything you have given us Everything you accomplished on that cross. We are forgiven. We are free. The debt is gone. A new season is here This is the best time of my life I've got to keep my eyes on you so I can experience this tonight I say yes to you and your plan for my life God. We give you us all over again bless my friends that are in this room Lift us to a new level of understanding who you are that we can live this abundant life that Jesus already paid for In Jesus name we pray everybody said Amen, amen, amen Did I or did I not say you were gonna be encouraged yeah Feel free to check out our website free life chapel org for more encouraging messages until then. I hope you have a great day