There's a moment most of us dread when everything we've planned, everything we've built, everything we've wanted has to go.

Not because we failed, but because God has a different idea. Chuck Swindall has lived that moment, more than once,

and he'll tell you plainly, it was the hardest thing he ever did.

Today on Insight for Living, Chuck opens the Bible to John 18.

In this passage, Jesus asked a question that stopped a crowd cold,

and it may just stop you cold too.

Chuck titled his message, the cup that he drank.

On the cross, he sealed my pardon, paid the debt, and made me free.

Isn't it great to be at a place where someone else pays your debts?

And it's a debt you could not and would not have ever been able to pay for yourself.

An eternal debt against you and me because of our sin.

That is what makes the cross so significant. We don't worship the cross anymore than we worship

the Bible. These are magnificent messages that tell us of the one to worship.

The cross where the sacrifice was made on our behalf in the Bible that reveals the truth to us.

Whatever was written in earlier times, writes Paul to the Romans, was written for our

learning, that we through patience and comfort from the scriptures might have hope, Romans 15.

God's word gives us hope. You'll find in your worship folder an outline on the other side of the outline is a chart.

We'll look at both later.

Put that at Luke chapter 9, please.

Just tuck it there in the crease of your Bible at Luke 9.

And then turn to John 18.

John 18 is a very moving account of the arrest of Jesus in the garden just after the last supper and just before the torture related to the cross,

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