The Death of Jesus (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Unique and unusual events surrounded Christ’s crucifixion—darkness covered the land for three hours, and the temple curtain was torn in two. Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg explains what this act of “divine vandalism” signifies for God’s people.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. There were unique and unusual events that surrounded the crucifixion of Jesus. |
| 0:31.2 | Darkness covered the land for three hours in the middle of the day. |
| 0:34.7 | The temple curtain was torn in two. |
| 0:38.0 | And today on Truth for Life, we'll find out why this was an act of divine vandalism. |
| 0:42.6 | We'll learn what it signifies for God's people even today. |
| 0:47.2 | Alistair Begg is teaching from chapter 15 of Mark's Gospel. |
| 0:57.3 | My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? |
| 1:03.6 | From the lips of the friend of sinners |
| 1:06.6 | comes this cry because he now enters into a realm he's never experienced. |
| 1:15.6 | This is a cry of dereliction. |
| 1:18.9 | It's a cry of separation. |
| 1:20.5 | It's a cry of bewilderment. |
| 1:21.9 | It is a cry of forsakenness. |
| 1:25.5 | And it is in this cry that the essential nature of sin in all of its badness |
| 1:33.2 | and in all of its horror is revealed. Here we are at the very essence of what it means |
| 1:41.2 | that we are sinners before God. |
| 1:47.6 | You see, only the Spirit of God brings about conviction of sin. |
| 1:53.9 | Only the Spirit of God helps us to see that the real issue with sin is not what sin has |
| 1:59.7 | done to me, or even what what sin has done to me, |
| 2:03.8 | or even what my sin has done to you, |
| 2:09.4 | but the essential issue is what our sin has done to God. |
| 2:16.6 | And that this cry from the cross takes us to the very heart of the matter. This, my sin must be absolutely horrendous |
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