GOOD NEWS: What the Bible says about Jesus’ cross

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Mark Driscoll

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🗓️ 11 April 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this sermon, Pastor Mark tells Jesus’ seven last proclamations from the cross and how Good Friday actually is good news.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mark Driscoll Ministries Podcast to find more Bible teaching from
0:04.3	Pastor Mark, visit MarkDriscoll.org. Thank you for listening and being a part of
0:08.7	Mark Driscoll Ministries. And remember, it's all about Jesus.
0:12.8	Well, today is good Friday for Christians. It is one of the most important days of
0:19.7	the year and it comes in a season that is remarkably timely. The entire
0:25.6	planet is struggling with the same foe and battling the same destiny of death.
0:32.4	Very rarely has there been a global event that has us all asking the exact same
0:39.4	questions simultaneously. Questions like, why is the world so broken? Questions
0:46.6	like, who could possibly fix this kind of problem? And as Christians, we find a
0:52.8	lot of hope curiously enough on this good Friday, the darkest of days. This is
0:57.6	the day that precedes Easter Sunday in the Christian calendar. It was on
1:02.6	Friday that Jesus died on the cross in our place for our sins that was
1:07.5	anticipating his resurrection victory coming up the following Sunday. Now just
1:12.7	think of it for a moment. Think of it from God's perspective. God made the world
1:17.2	perfect. When God was done, He said everyone and everything was very good.
1:22.5	There was no sickness. There was no sin and there was no suffering. When God's
1:27.8	work was completed, everything was perfect and everyone was happy. And then we
1:33.4	humanity chose to sin, to rebel, to defy God. The result is that we literally
1:40.7	unleashed hell on earth through Satan, demons and all that is opposed to God.
1:46.2	Now God in that moment had this extraordinary choice. That would be that he would
1:51.6	either remove himself from it and just leave us and our fallen, broken, dying
1:56.9	destitute world. Or he would enter into it with us. And that's exactly what the
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