It is Finished
Series: Abundant Life
Speaker: Steve Jeffrey
Date: 22nd September 2024
00:00:01 --> 00:00:02 Well, good morning, everyone.
00:00:02 --> 00:00:04 My name's Steve, if I've not met you before.
00:00:05 --> 00:00:09 And if this is the first time you've been here at St. Paul's,
00:00:09 --> 00:00:11 so you've just joined in, tuned in at the moment.
00:00:11 --> 00:00:14 We have been, over the course of a couple of months,
00:00:14 --> 00:00:19 working our way through the second half of John's biography
00:00:19 --> 00:00:20 on the life of Jesus.
00:00:21 --> 00:00:23 And we did the first half early this year.
00:00:24 --> 00:00:26 What we've been really the undercurrent all the way through
00:00:26 --> 00:00:30 is really just showing out here again and again
00:00:30 --> 00:00:32 from the text of John's Gospel,
00:00:33 --> 00:00:39 how the Christian faith is relevant, it's reasonable, and it's good,
00:00:39 --> 00:00:43 and that ultimately it leads to abundant life.
00:00:43 --> 00:00:44 That's the undercurrent.
00:00:44 --> 00:00:48 Today's passage is really getting to the crux of it all.
00:00:49 --> 00:00:53 It's like Jesus' whole life and ministry is coming to this point,
00:00:53 --> 00:01:01 and this is what, this crucifixion of Jesus, as we've just read,
00:01:01 --> 00:01:06 is what Christianity offers a world that is losing hope
00:01:06 --> 00:01:08 in its ability to fix itself.
00:01:09 --> 00:01:10 That's what we're looking at today.
00:01:11 --> 00:01:13 It's what Christianity offers you,
00:01:14 --> 00:01:17 who are struggling to change,
00:01:18 --> 00:01:21 for you who are looking for peace,
00:01:21 --> 00:01:23 who cannot find security,
00:01:24 --> 00:01:26 for you who are looking for hope.
00:01:27 --> 00:01:30 And it's crucial, this message,
00:01:30 --> 00:01:32 because over two centuries now,
00:01:32 --> 00:01:37 Western societies like us here in Australia
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00:01:43 --> 00:01:48 We've held this strong belief for over two centuries
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00:01:58 --> 00:02:01 We've held out this hope that it's just a matter of time,
00:02:01 --> 00:02:04 just a matter of time,
00:02:04 --> 00:02:08 and we'll be able to solve our greatest ills.
00:02:09 --> 00:02:11 We've assumed that human reason,
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00:02:13 --> 00:02:14 science,
00:02:15 --> 00:02:19 once it's freed from superstitious beliefs,
00:02:19 --> 00:02:22 and especially anything to do with religious belief,
00:02:23 --> 00:02:26 we will have a much better world,
00:02:27 --> 00:02:28 a much better world,
00:02:29 --> 00:02:29 a better future.
00:02:31 --> 00:02:32 And the reality is,
00:02:32 --> 00:02:34 over the last couple of centuries,
00:02:35 --> 00:02:38 there's a number of good things that have come our way.
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00:02:41 --> 00:02:45 that the first four decades of the 20th century,
00:02:45 --> 00:02:46 last century,
00:02:46 --> 00:02:49 should have been enough
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00:02:53 --> 00:02:56 In the space of four decades,
00:02:56 --> 00:02:59 our world faced two world wars,
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00:03:00 --> 00:03:01 and a Great Depression.
00:03:01 --> 00:03:03 What followed that was the Cold War,
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00:03:05 --> 00:03:05 Holocaust.
00:03:07 --> 00:03:12 It seems the greatest threat to our hope for a better world,
00:03:12 --> 00:03:13 in the end,
00:03:14 --> 00:03:16 is not the natural environment,
00:03:17 --> 00:03:20 but the various forms of evil that spring from the human heart.
00:03:22 --> 00:03:24 You see, science can come up with a vaccine.
00:03:24 --> 00:03:25 We're thankful for that.
00:03:26 --> 00:03:28 And we've got a bunch of technology.
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00:03:30 --> 00:03:32 That's sure to make life better for everyone.
00:03:32 --> 00:03:34 There's a heap of stuff.
00:03:34 --> 00:03:37 That's sarcasm, in case you didn't pick that up.
00:03:39 --> 00:03:40 But what it can't do,
00:03:41 --> 00:03:43 it can't eradicate human evil.
00:03:43 --> 00:03:44 It still exists.
00:03:46 --> 00:03:52 The ordinary cruelties of self-interest in business,
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00:03:59 --> 00:04:00 bullying,
00:04:01 --> 00:04:04 the countless acts of selfishness
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00:04:06 --> 00:04:07 and, dare I say,
00:04:08 --> 00:04:09 we even practice day by day ourselves.
00:04:11 --> 00:04:14 And so John 19 offers us our deepest hope.
00:04:16 --> 00:04:19 The word that the Bible uses for hope
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00:04:23 --> 00:04:29 Christianity offers a profound certainty
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00:04:33 --> 00:04:36 even during evil and suffering,
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00:04:58 --> 00:04:58 In fact,
00:04:59 --> 00:05:00 Christianity
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00:05:15 --> 00:05:16 It's the only one.
00:05:16 --> 00:05:18 all founded on the resurrection
00:05:18 --> 00:05:20 of one person.
00:05:21 --> 00:05:22 But that's next week.
00:05:24 --> 00:05:26 It's really all founded here
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00:05:36 --> 00:05:38 just two things on this passage
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00:05:39 --> 00:05:40 Open your Bibles,
00:05:40 --> 00:05:41 John 19.
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00:05:57 --> 00:06:00 how do we take up,
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00:06:03 --> 00:06:04 That's in these two points
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00:06:09 --> 00:06:10 So first of all
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00:06:32 --> 00:06:35 Now our first reaction
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