Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us here today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope,
Speaker 1: the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we
Speaker 1: continue in a series called the Seven Greatest Words of Love.
Speaker 1: There are seven words in particular that Jesus spoke during
Speaker 1: his final hours on the cross that hold the keys
Speaker 1: for finding fulfillment in your life, relationships, and even your career.
Speaker 1: Right now, here's Pastor Rick with the final part of
Speaker 1: a message called the Word of Victory.
Speaker 2: In the Old Testament, the sacrificial system was the way
Speaker 2: that people said they were sorry for their sins, and
Speaker 2: there were sacrifices made. And the Bible says, now that
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ has died on the cross, there is no
Speaker 2: need to offer any more sacrifices because Jesus was the
Speaker 2: ultimate sacrifice for everything you've ever done wrong.
Speaker 3: Now, let me explain this in implication of it. Some
Speaker 3: of our.
Speaker 2: Friends, some of you right here in our church are
Speaker 2: Christians who believe about the second Coming, that for before
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ can come back, that a temple has to
Speaker 2: be built in Jerusalem and the sacrificial system restarted before
Speaker 2: Jesus can come back. But the Bible just said there's
Speaker 2: no need for any more sacrifice, so that's irrelevant. There
Speaker 2: is no need for the temple to be built.
Speaker 3: Because the sacrifice has already been made.
Speaker 2: There will never again be a need for sacrifices in
Speaker 2: the Temple in Jerusalem, never never never never never never
Speaker 2: never never never again.
Speaker 3: It doesn't have to happen.
Speaker 2: Why because the Bible says Jesus was the sacrifice and
Speaker 2: there will never ever again be any need for any
Speaker 2: other sacrifice. Now, some of you have felt guilty over
Speaker 2: something you've done wrong, and you believe God has forgiven you,
Speaker 2: but you haven't really felt God has forgiven you, and
Speaker 2: you keep trying to pay off your sin. Maybe if
Speaker 2: I go on a piece trip, that'll pay off my sin.
Speaker 2: Maybe if I go to church, that'll pay a fe
Speaker 2: off my sin. Maybe if I tie, then I can
Speaker 2: get rid of this gill. And you're trying to pay
Speaker 2: off your sin when it's already been paid for.
Speaker 3: That's good news, that is good news.
Speaker 2: The sacrifice was final, it was complete, and it is finished.
Speaker 2: To tell us Diy, there will never be anything else
Speaker 2: you could ever ever do to pay for your sins
Speaker 2: because it's already all been paid for. No need to
Speaker 2: try to keep repaying for your mistakes. I remember one
Speaker 2: time reading about a lady who was an elderly woman
Speaker 2: and she went to her insurance company and she walked
Speaker 2: in and said, how can we help.
Speaker 3: You, ma'am?
Speaker 2: She said, well, my husband died five years ago and
Speaker 2: I can't afford to keep paying his insurance life insurance premiums.
Speaker 2: I just can't afford to do it anymore. And I said, men,
Speaker 2: you don't need to. It's been paid off. It's done,
Speaker 2: and now you get to benefit from it. He died,
Speaker 2: and because he died, you are now going to benefit
Speaker 2: from his death. You don't have to pay anything anymore.
Speaker 2: And that's what Jesus did for you. Now, there's one
Speaker 2: other use of the word to tell us stye that
Speaker 2: I didn't mention, and that it was often used as
Speaker 2: a battle cry, and in war when armies would go
Speaker 2: to battle and they had won the battle and they
Speaker 2: had completely defeated the enemy, the soldiers would shout to
Speaker 2: tell us die, it's done, we're finished, it's paid in full,
Speaker 2: we won.
Speaker 3: It's all ours.
Speaker 2: And these are the last two meanings of this in
Speaker 2: your life. Number four, The fourth thing that happened when
Speaker 2: Jesus said, it is finished. Was he defeated the fear
Speaker 2: of death. He defeated the fear of death. Now this
Speaker 2: is a universal fear. Nobody is exempt from it. Everybody
Speaker 2: has some fear of death. But Jesus broke that power.
Speaker 2: And this was a battle cry. It was a shout
Speaker 2: of a victorious conqueror when he says, I have defeated death,
Speaker 2: and I have proved to you you don't have to
Speaker 2: be afraid of it, because I'm going to come back
Speaker 2: to life. And if I am the resurrection, you can
Speaker 2: be resurrected. And believing in me, death is not the end,
Speaker 2: and you don't need to fear it anymore. A couple
Speaker 2: verses Romans five seventeen, the sin of one man, Adam
Speaker 2: caused the death to.
Speaker 3: Rule over all of us.
Speaker 2: But all who received God's wonderful, gracious gift of righteousness
Speaker 2: will live in triumph over sin and death. Through this
Speaker 2: one man, Jesus Christ triumph over sin and death. Look
Speaker 2: at the next verse he Brews chapter two, fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 2: Jesus became flesh and blood by being born in human form,
Speaker 2: for only as a human being could he die, and
Speaker 2: only by dying could he break the power of the
Speaker 2: devil who had the power of death. And only in
Speaker 2: this way how Jesus died on the cross, could he
Speaker 2: deliver those set us free, deliver those that's you and me,
Speaker 2: who have lived all their lives as slaves to the
Speaker 2: fear of dying.
Speaker 3: I don't have to be afraid of death anymore. I'm
Speaker 3: not afraid of death.
Speaker 2: I can honestly say I'm afraid of pain, but I
Speaker 2: am not afraid of death, because death is just a transfer.
Speaker 2: And I know where I'm going, and i know I'm
Speaker 2: supposed to be there, not here forever, and I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to being there since more and more of my
Speaker 2: friends and parents and relatives are there. And he breaks
Speaker 2: the fear of death, He defeats the fear of death
Speaker 2: when he says it is finished. By the way, do
Speaker 2: you know what is the symbol of this though you
Speaker 2: don't have to fear death. It's baptism. Baptism. In the Bible,
Speaker 2: every time you see the word baptism used, it's used
Speaker 2: to refer to a burial and a resurrection. The Bible
Speaker 2: says by in baptism, we're buried with Christ. And in
Speaker 2: baptism we're raised with Christ, which is why we do
Speaker 2: it the way they did it in the Bible. We
Speaker 2: don't sprinkle water, we don't pour on water. We do
Speaker 2: it the way that they did it with Jesus, because
Speaker 2: it's a picture of a death, a burial, and resurrection.
Speaker 2: Every time the word baptism is used in the Bible,
Speaker 2: it refers. In fact, the word means to put underwater baptizo.
Speaker 2: And so just as Jesus Christ died, was buried in
Speaker 2: the ground three days and rose again and broke the
Speaker 2: power of death, And we don't have to be afraid
Speaker 2: of death anymore because we know you can be resurrected
Speaker 2: from it. Jesus died, was buried three days, rose again.
Speaker 2: That you know, I take you, or one of our
Speaker 2: pastors takes you, puts you under the water, leaves you
Speaker 2: there three days, raises you. I'm just seeing if you're listening,
Speaker 2: raises you up again. And that is a symbol that
Speaker 2: I have died to my old way of life. All
Speaker 2: my sins are forgiven, they're washed away, they're forgiven, they're
Speaker 2: wiped out, and I'm being raised to live a brand
Speaker 2: new life. And I don't have to fear death all right,
Speaker 2: number five now the fifth one. And I really love
Speaker 2: this one. I appreciate it so much. Is that when
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ died for us on the cross, one of
Speaker 2: the things he said is free from that he liberates
Speaker 2: from He finished was this. He destroyed Satan's power to
Speaker 2: control me on the cross. He destroyed Satan's power to
Speaker 2: control me, to control my mind, to control my life,
Speaker 2: to control my destiny. You don't understand this, and I
Speaker 2: don't have time to get into it fully right now.
Speaker 2: But there was this cosmic war going on on the
Speaker 2: cross and God versus Satan. And from a human standpoint,
Speaker 2: when Jesus is dying on the cross and bleeding, it
Speaker 2: looks like Satan's winning. It just looks and a lot
Speaker 2: of times the world looks like Satan's winning. But God
Speaker 2: has a bigger perspective and he had Satan.
Speaker 3: Had no idea what was going on at this moment.
Speaker 2: When Jesus died on the cross, Satan thought, man, I'm good.
Speaker 2: I've put Jesus to death. I've killed the Messiah, I've
Speaker 2: killed the savior of the world. Now all of those
Speaker 2: people are gonna come to hell with me.
Speaker 3: He thought he had won he thought.
Speaker 2: Now the audacity, the foolish was thinking that you can
Speaker 2: fight God and win, because three days later Jesus arises
Speaker 2: from the dead and he says I'm back, and Satans go, oh, no,
Speaker 2: we have no idea what we've just got ours into.
Speaker 2: And one of the things that God did on the
Speaker 2: cross is he destroyed Satan's power. When Jesus said it
Speaker 2: is finished, Satan should have said I'm finished because his
Speaker 2: days are numbered. Now, let me be frank. If you
Speaker 2: don't have Jesus Christ in your life, you don't have
Speaker 2: the power God in your life. You are defenseless against
Speaker 2: the devil. He can just swip slap you around, do
Speaker 2: anything you want. You have no power on your own.
Speaker 2: You are not anywhere near as powerful as Satan. And
Speaker 2: if you don't have God's spirit in your life, you
Speaker 2: have zero defense, zero power, zero armory against Satan's while
Speaker 2: he can just whip you around, he can manipulate your emotions,
Speaker 2: he can mess with your mind, he can get you
Speaker 2: addicted to all.
Speaker 3: Kinds of stuff.
Speaker 2: He's got all kinds of power, and you are flat
Speaker 2: out powerless. You have no defense, zero, not a none
Speaker 2: against the devil. If you don't have God in your life,
Speaker 2: you have none. But when you get God's spirit in you,
Speaker 2: the Bible says, greater is He that is in you
Speaker 2: than he that is in the world.
Speaker 3: Now let me again be frank.
Speaker 2: Satan has two favorite tools to whip you around. One
Speaker 2: of them is temptation and the other is condemnation, and
Speaker 2: he loves to use them both. And the way he
Speaker 2: uses temptation is he minimizes the sense that's no big deal.
Speaker 2: Don't come on, everybody does this, you know, go ahead
Speaker 2: and do this thing, rebel against God. You're smarter than God.
Speaker 2: You know, it'll make you happy more than God does.
Speaker 2: And He's given you all these thoughts in your mind.
Speaker 2: You don't have to speak aloud. He just puts these
Speaker 2: ideas in your mind, just like God. When Satan puts
Speaker 2: an idea, it's called temptation. When God gives you an idea,
Speaker 2: it's called inspiration. When you have an idea, it's called stupidity.
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3: I'm just just kidding. But Satan's but no, this is
Speaker 3: no big deals, no big deal.
Speaker 2: And then the moment you do that particular sin, you
Speaker 2: know what he does. He reverses strategy and instead of minimizing,
Speaker 2: and he maximizes. You did that? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: God will never love you again. It's over. You're dead,
Speaker 2: You're done for your head. God could never use you. You'll
Speaker 2: never be blessed. What kind of person do you think
Speaker 2: you are? How big is it God that is so big?
Speaker 2: You could never never be forgiven for that? See a strategy.
Speaker 2: Minimize the sin before you do it, maximize it afterwards.
Speaker 3: Temptation, condemnation.
Speaker 2: And what did Jesus Christ do on the cross when
Speaker 2: he said his finished? He defeated temptation and condemnation. Look
Speaker 2: at this. The Bible says that Jesus destroyed the irresistible
Speaker 2: power of temptation. He now gives you the power to
Speaker 2: resist it. In fact, he promises to give it.
Speaker 3: Colossians, chapter one. God has freed.
Speaker 2: Us from the power of darkness and brought us into
Speaker 2: the kingdom of his dear son.
Speaker 3: It's a fatal blow to Satan. He said. A minute, Rick, you.
Speaker 2: Said, God has freed us from the power of darkness.
Speaker 2: And you're thinking, well, it seems to me that Satan's
Speaker 2: still pretty much alive right now. Yes, but he's on
Speaker 2: borrowed time now I've tried to think of the best
Speaker 2: illustration to explained to you the predicament that Satan is
Speaker 2: in right now, between now and the end of history.
Speaker 2: And the only thing I can give you this and
Speaker 2: it's a little gory, is from growing up. I grew
Speaker 2: up in an area that had a lot of farms,
Speaker 2: and a lot of farms raised chickens. And actually, when
Speaker 2: my parents lived in Portland, we actually had a chicken
Speaker 2: coop and we raised chickens. Now, there's sorry, this may
Speaker 2: be a little gory, but there are only two ways
Speaker 2: killed chicken. You chop its head off or you ring
Speaker 2: its neck.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: Now, when I was a little kid and my dad
Speaker 2: would do this ring Dad, it just grossed me out.
Speaker 2: When it became a teenager, I thought it was hilarious. Okay,
Speaker 2: it was the funniest thing I ever seen. Okay, and
Speaker 2: I just thought, wow, that come on, let me do
Speaker 2: it dad. You know, when you're a kid, you know.
Speaker 2: But but this I have seen this many, many, many
Speaker 2: times as kid growing up, that when a chicken loses
Speaker 2: its neck, either by wringing it or chopping it off,
Speaker 2: it will then run around the yard for another three
Speaker 2: or four minutes. That's where you get the phrase running
Speaker 2: like a chicken with its head cut off. He's dead
Speaker 2: and doesn't know it. It's the only illustration I could
Speaker 2: think of. And at the Cross, Jesus whacked off the
Speaker 2: head of Satan.
Speaker 3: He's running around with his head cut off. He's dead
Speaker 3: and doesn't know it.
Speaker 2: If you have Jesus Christ in your life, Satan has
Speaker 2: zero power over you except the.
Speaker 3: Areas you choose to give him.
Speaker 2: And when you choose to give in through resentment and
Speaker 2: guilt and worry and fear, then you give him what's
Speaker 2: called a foothold in your life. But otherwise he can't
Speaker 2: touch you. He cannot harm you. Satan cannot harm me.
Speaker 2: I'm hid with God in Christ, and I am protected.
Speaker 2: I'm not afraid of Satan. I am afraid of listening
Speaker 2: to some of the stupid things he says and actually
Speaker 2: believing them. I ought to be afraid of that, because
Speaker 2: he can only if you have Christ in your life.
Speaker 2: He can only affect you by suggestion. He cannot come
Speaker 2: at you.
Speaker 3: Hold on now. If you don't have God in your life,
Speaker 3: you're vulnerable. You're wide open.
Speaker 2: But when Jesus Christ died on the cross, one of
Speaker 2: the things he did was he defeated the power of
Speaker 2: Satan to manipulate you.
Speaker 3: Does Satan tent me? Yes?
Speaker 2: But I now have a p inside of me. It
Speaker 2: gives me the energy to say no, and I didn't
Speaker 2: have that power before. And then not only does he
Speaker 2: have temptation, he has condemnation.
Speaker 3: Now look at this verse, second verse.
Speaker 2: Jesus destroyed Satan's leverage to accuse you Colossians two fifteen.
Speaker 2: God took away Satan's power to accuse you. God took
Speaker 2: away Satan's power to accuse you of sin, and he
Speaker 2: openly displayed to the whole world christ triumph at the Cross,
Speaker 2: where your sins were all taken away.
Speaker 3: Now what does that mean?
Speaker 2: Before I sin, sayings it's no big deal. Then I
Speaker 2: send it's a big deal. God will never never love you,
Speaker 2: and I say, you're a liar.
Speaker 3: Go to hell. You could tell Satan to go to hell,
Speaker 3: nobody else but just Satan.
Speaker 2: Okay, his accusations don't work on you, because the Bible
Speaker 2: says there is therefore now no condemnation for those who
Speaker 2: are in Christ.
Speaker 3: Jesus.
Speaker 2: If Jesus paid for all of my sins on the cross,
Speaker 2: including the ones I haven't done yet, And Satan comes
Speaker 2: to me and says, Warren, you are such a jerk.
Speaker 2: You did this, and you did this, and you did that.
Speaker 2: I just go But it was paid for on the cross.
Speaker 2: I'm a trophy of God's grace and so are you.
Speaker 2: So his accusations don't stick. He can't manipulate me anymore
Speaker 2: by accusation. Does that make sense? And he can't manipulate
Speaker 2: you anymore, because everything you've ever done wrong and everything
Speaker 2: you ever will do wrong if you put your trust
Speaker 2: in Christ has been forgiven. And Satan goes, oh, I
Speaker 2: accuse you of this, And Jesus the defense attorney steps
Speaker 2: in and said, out of order, in admissible evidence.
Speaker 3: It's already been cleansed.
Speaker 2: It's already I canceled the payment, I paid the debt,
Speaker 2: I satisfied the justice.
Speaker 3: To tell us die.
Speaker 2: Do you understand the significance of what I'm saying. The
Speaker 2: difference between our faith and every other religion or faith
Speaker 2: in the world is the difference between just two words
Speaker 2: do and done. Every other religion says you gotta do this, this, this, this, this, this, this,
Speaker 2: gotta do do do do do in order to make.
Speaker 3: God like you Christianity.
Speaker 2: The Bible says it was all done for you on
Speaker 2: the cross. You don't have anything to it. You can't
Speaker 2: add to it. It's done to tell Ustye, it's finished.
Speaker 2: So let me summarize. Jesus fulfill the scripture what God
Speaker 2: had promised to do. He satisfied the law and in
Speaker 2: his own justice. I did what God required. He paid
Speaker 2: off the debt that I owed, a massive death that
Speaker 2: I could never possibly pay off on my own, my penalty,
Speaker 2: took my penalty. He defeated the fear of death and
Speaker 2: destroyed Satan's power to control me. Is that a reason
Speaker 2: to celebrate?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And I'm sure that the Father said, well done, well done.
Speaker 2: Now these are the five things that give us hope.
Speaker 2: This is the uniqueness of the Christian hope. These things
Speaker 2: give us hope. But not only that. There's hope for
Speaker 2: your future too. Look at the next verse. Philippians one
Speaker 2: six says this. You can be certain of this, and
Speaker 2: let me stop. Do you remember last week I talked
Speaker 2: about three kinds of hope. There's wishful hope, which is
Speaker 2: just you're just wishing. There's expectant hope. You have a
Speaker 2: reason to expect some them, and then there's certain hope.
Speaker 2: And that's the kind of hope God wants you to
Speaker 2: build your life on. This is a certainty, This is
Speaker 2: a certain hope. Right here you can be certain of this. God,
Speaker 2: who began his good work within you, will continue his
Speaker 2: work until it is finally.
Speaker 3: What circle that word start? Put an arrow by it.
Speaker 2: Who God, who began his good work in you, will
Speaker 2: continue his work in you until it is finally finished
Speaker 2: on the day when Christ Jesus comes back again. Now,
Speaker 2: is there anything in there about you doing something? No,
Speaker 2: it's all about him doing something. It's all about his work.
Speaker 2: One time I was asked by a man. I was
Speaker 2: out on the patio and I actually learned this response
Speaker 2: from a guy named L. Moody, previous generation pastor. But
Speaker 2: a man came up to me and he said, he's
Speaker 2: pretty frantic. I gus, I just want to know what
Speaker 2: do I need to do? I said, what do you mean?
Speaker 2: What do I need to do to get into heaven?
Speaker 2: And I said, sorry, you're too late. He said, are
Speaker 2: you kidding me? No, I'm sorry you're too late. What
Speaker 2: do you mean it's too late?
Speaker 3: What do I need to do? You're too late?
Speaker 2: It was all done two thousand years ago. You just
Speaker 2: need to accept it. You can't do anything to get
Speaker 2: into heaven. You couldn't be good enough to get into heaven.
Speaker 3: But you could accept what Jesus did.
Speaker 2: I started this message by saying that you're going to
Speaker 2: end your life with unfinished business.
Speaker 3: But there's one.
Speaker 2: Thing that's definitely been finished for you, and it's the
Speaker 2: last person your outline Ephesians two eight. Saving is all
Speaker 2: his idea. Saving is all his idea, and it's all
Speaker 2: his work.
Speaker 3: It's God's work.
Speaker 2: All we do is trust him enough to let him
Speaker 2: do it. It is God's gift from start to finish.
Speaker 2: Do or done, that's your choice. It's bow our heads.
Speaker 2: Would you pray this in your heart and mean it
Speaker 2: with every bone in your body. Dear Jesus Christ, thank
Speaker 2: you that you did it all. Thank you that you
Speaker 2: did it all. Everything I need to get to heaven,
Speaker 2: to be forgiven, to have a purpose for living, you
Speaker 2: did it all. Thank you for those three words, it
Speaker 2: is finished. Thank you that it's all done. Thank you
Speaker 2: that you've fulfilled the promises of God. You satisfied the
Speaker 2: justice of God. Thank you that you defeated the fear
Speaker 2: of death. Thank you that you paid off my debt.
Speaker 2: Thank you that you destroyed Satan's power to manipulate me.
Speaker 2: I want to live in those truths for the rest
Speaker 2: of my life. And I thank you that what you
Speaker 2: began in my life, you said, we can be certain
Speaker 2: that you will bring it to completion. You will finish
Speaker 2: it on the day that you return. And so really
Speaker 2: with all my heart, I thank you. And in many ways, Lord,
Speaker 2: like David said in Psalm one sixteen, what can I
Speaker 2: offer the Lord that always done for me? And you say,
Speaker 2: just offer me your heart, offer me your life. If
Speaker 2: you've never invited Christ in your life, said Jesus Christ,
Speaker 2: I ask you to come into my life and do
Speaker 2: what I cannot do for myself and could never do.
Speaker 2: I need a savior, and I know I would never
Speaker 2: be good enough to be in a perfect place. So
Speaker 2: I'm trusting you. Thank you for the work of Christ.
Speaker 3: And Jesus name. I pray this prayer.
Speaker 2: Amen, Hi, this is Pastor Rick. If you just pray
Speaker 2: to accept Jesus Christ into your heart, Congratulations, you're now
Speaker 2: my brother or sister and the Lord. And you need
Speaker 2: to tell somebody, and why don't you tell me write
Speaker 2: to me Rick at Pastorrick dot com. Just email me
Speaker 2: Rick at Pastorrick dot com and tell me your story.
Speaker 2: I would love to read it. And by the way,
Speaker 2: I'll send you some free material to help you start
Speaker 2: in your new journey with the Lord God bless you.
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