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00:01:38.000It is, like I said, it's a solemn observance of Jesus' suffering, his trial, his crucifixion, his sacrificial death, his atoning death on the cross for our sins.
00:01:52.000We believe as Christians that today is the day that Jesus took our sin upon him.
00:02:00.000Though he lived a perfect life and lived without sin, that he took our sins upon himself and paid for those the ultimate sacrifice of his life.
00:02:11.000And that culminated with the crucifixion.
00:02:14.000And so we want to take some time to remember this and to remember what Charlie said about his faith in Jesus Christ.
00:02:32.000But obviously, you don't get Easter without Good Friday.
00:02:35.000And I was praying about this and thinking about what I wanted to do and what I wanted to say.
00:02:42.000Especially everything that we've lived through.
00:02:44.000This is obviously our first Easter season without Charlie.
00:02:48.000And I think of him still the first thing I think about in the morning is Charlie.
00:02:53.000And the last thing I think about before I go to bed is usually Charlie.
00:02:56.000And I think a lot of you out there probably feel the same way I do.
00:03:00.000And we still live in the shadow of our great friend who is a martyr, a Christian martyr.
00:03:07.000And his example is powerful and it looms large over my life.
00:03:11.000And so we want to give this day to the Lord.
00:03:15.000And I want to read a verse from Isaiah 53.
00:03:18.000And when I think about what Good Friday means to me, this is what Good Friday is.
00:03:23.000And I think, especially everything that happened to Charlie, I think that he embodies so much of the Christian ethic and the life well lived.
00:03:32.000So, Isaiah 53, written before the time of Jesus on this earth, and yet it points directly to him.
00:03:39.000Who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
00:03:45.000He grew up before him like a tender shoot and like a root out of dry ground.
00:03:51.000He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
00:03:57.000He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering and familiar with pain.
00:04:04.000Like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
00:04:10.000Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.
00:04:20.000But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities.
00:04:25.000The punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
00:04:33.000And that is essentially the core of the Christian message.
00:04:38.000And we don't say good in a celebratory sense.
00:04:41.000We say good in sort of the old English sense, pious, holy.
00:04:45.000It is a day to solemnly reflect on the sacrifices our Savior has made.
00:04:50.000Yeah, I actually had it open for mine.
00:04:52.000It was slightly different wording because we use a different translation of the Bible, but they do read that in Catholic services on Good Friday every year.
00:05:00.000Basically, the whole of that that keeps going.
00:05:37.000We have other special readings that we do.
00:05:39.000Usually, you don't have a verse that you read.
00:05:42.000In a usual Catholic service, it's first reading, psalm, second reading, gospel.
00:05:46.000But they also incorporate a special verse just before they read the gospel, which is on Good Friday, it's always the Passion according to John.
00:05:54.000And they say, Christ became obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
00:05:59.000Because of this, God greatly exalted on him and bestowed on him the name which is above every other name.
00:07:27.000The term Easter was a pagan term that was redeemed.
00:07:32.000But no, Easter itself is actually always aligning with the Jewish Passover, Pescha, which is happening this week as well, those two things are always overlaid with one another.
00:07:45.000And the resurrection and the promise of Jesus, honestly, can be best described as a fresh start, as a reset.
00:08:51.000And It's an image of what we believe Jesus was doing during the harrowing of hell, we call it, which is he dies, he resurrects a few days later.
00:09:01.000And what he is doing is he descended into hell.
00:09:05.000And what he did is that is what the redemption of Christ means.
00:09:10.000What that image is is that is Jesus bursting open the coffins that hold Adam on one side and Eve on the other.
00:09:16.000That's Adam and Eve, that they have been separated from God for untold generations.
00:09:23.000Because of their sin, and that Jesus is bursting them out and he is liberating them so that they can be taken up to heaven with him, that he can redeem them for paradise.
00:09:34.000And it's one of the most powerful images you can have of what Jesus was accomplishing.
00:10:09.000Shabbat Shalom and have a wonderful Easter.
00:10:12.000That's the perfect, like, sort of ecumenical clip of Charlie, the evangelical, doing the Catholic Stations of the Cross, signing off with Shabbat Shalom.
00:10:20.000He had his very special way of approaching faith matters.
00:10:23.000And Blake, you inspired me because you said the Catholics read.
00:10:28.000From John, the crucifixion story from John.
00:10:34.000And he says, And he, bearing his cross, went out to a place called the place of the skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha, where they crucified him and two others with him, one on either side, and Jesus in the center.
00:10:48.000Now Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross, and the writing was Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.
00:10:55.000Then many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
00:11:02.000Therefore, The chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, Do not write the king of the Jews, but he said, I am the king of the Jews.
00:11:09.000Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.
00:11:12.000Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to each soldier a part, and also the tunic.
00:11:20.000Now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top in one piece.
00:11:24.000They said, Therefore among themselves, Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, of 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.
00:11:35.000Therefore, the soldiers did these things.
00:11:39.000And then Jesus, it's an ode to Mary, which I wanted to keep in here.
00:11:45.000Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother and his mother's sister, Mary, the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
00:11:52.000When Jesus therefore saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing by, he said to his mother, Woman, behold your son.
00:11:59.000Then he said to the disciple, Behold your mother.
00:12:02.000And from that hour, that disciple took her into his own home.
00:12:08.000After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished that the scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst.
00:12:15.000Now, a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there, and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
00:12:23.000So, when Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, It is finished.
00:12:29.000And bowing his head, he gave up his spirit.
00:12:34.000Powerful moment to reflect on on Good Friday, and we think it's important to read directly from Scripture because God said it best.
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00:13:59.000When Jesus was on the cross, he cried out, It is finished.
00:14:02.000That's how it gets translated in English.
00:14:03.000But that was just a translation of the Greek word, to telestai.
00:14:07.000It was a word that was used in a business context on ancient receipts in the New Testament Bible times to indicate that a literal debt had been paid in full.
00:14:15.000It was also used in a judicial context in a court when a sentence was fully served.
00:14:21.000Completely and fully, once and for all, served.
00:14:23.000The word to tell a stai was also used in a military context, meaning that a battle had been won.
00:14:29.000It was a word of like triumph and victory.
00:14:31.000When Jesus hangs on the cross and he cries out, to tell a stai, it is finished, he was declaring, the debt of your sin is fully paid, the judgment for your sin has been fully served, and the spiritual war against death, sin, and Satan has been completely won in Christ.
00:14:49.000The work of salvation, victory, reconciliation, and a new life is fully yours.
00:15:08.000I love that the Catholics read from John.
00:15:12.000There are many interesting parts about it.
00:15:13.000One of the most interesting to me is when you do readings in church, all of the gospel readings are done by the priest, exclusively by the priest.
00:15:25.000And the one exception is during the Passion readings, where they actually will have the audience take part of it.
00:15:32.000And you're taking the part of the mob, of the crowd, which goes in the story.
00:15:37.000So when they say, the one that's really memorable, I can't remember if this is in, let me see, do they have it in John or is it only in.
00:15:51.000Okay, the memorable one, when they say, take him away, they cried out.
00:16:39.000Let's go ahead and play more of Charlie in his own words, reflecting on his faith sought for.
00:16:45.000The modern gospel is God has this beautiful, amazing, wonderful life for you.
00:16:50.000And if you give your life to Christ, your life will infinitely improve.
00:16:53.000That is somewhat true, but it's very misleading because you're basically trying to sell people in Christianity of a life without difficulty, where the better way to teach the gospel is here's the Ten Commandments.
00:17:18.000And only thanks to Jesus' perfect sacrifice, coming and living a perfect life, that I get something I do not earn, but has been given to me this free gift of eternal life.