Thank you for joining us here at #ChristianStraightTalk - our weekly podcast and the title of this weeks, is the Fathers story part one taken from the Gospel of John chapter 3 verse 16 where they look at the handing over of Christ Jesus from the Fathers side, and how from Genesis chapter 1 all the way through the old Testament up until the cross of Calvary that's when the father handed Christ over as the unblemished sacrifice son of God.
Thank you for joining us here at #ChristianStraightTalk - our weekly podcast and the title of this weeks, is the Fathers story part one taken from the Gospel of John chapter 3 verse 16 where they look at the handing over of Christ Jesus from the Fathers side, and how from Genesis chapter 1 all the way through the old Testament up until the cross of Calvary that's when the father handed Christ over as the unblemished sacrifice son of God.
Hello and welcome. Thank you for joining us here today, wherever you are across this beautiful earth, God created the heavens and the earth. The scientists a big percentage of the scientific world is trying to prove that God doesn't exist. We'll look outside your window. He's the King of kings and the Lord of lords stop looking at your little test job. And that is not a strange euphemism. This is real. God has created the heavens and the earth. He is the great King above all kings. He is the Father He is the great I AM. And we have a subject that Simon has brought to the table through hash code hash crag hash tag, my lips are so tired I've been doing so much talking lately. #Christian straight talk we are in we are here. There is no editing, there is no shaping and fashioning into a beautiful, sweet speaking. Podcast. This is just straight out the barrel of truth. This is it. We are in we got Simon and we are blessed and highly favored. And we are living in very powerful time. So if you live within the UK, you're starting to see something very interesting of the fall of the ivory towers, the fall of ministries that have been built by man the fall of governments that have built been built by themselves fall of structures and systems but God is moving. Are you for Jesus? Are you further farther? Or you live in Luciferian way, Simon we're in getting a bit strong in it. Yeah, already already. Ben. Good morning. To everyone who's listening out there. We're all good descent and we pray that you all good and blessed. Wherever you are listening to this # Christine's straight talk. And we're continuing our theme this morning on the cross don't forget we've we've spoken about wide across we spoke about the blood of Jesus we've spoken in two weeks we've spent on Jesus on story, which was really they've all been really powerful and today we're going to talk about something that's not really spoken about at all in church it's the father story and it's part one of the father's story and don't forget this once we complete this this will be listed become an out in a book sometime soon in our second book on fear # Christian strike talk on fear taken from our podcast on fear will be coming out hopefully by the end of this month and praise the Lord God willing it'll all come together and everything no lost a little bit of traction with one thing another going on but God is in it and got it with you. Wherever you are the father story where do we start with this? Ben? I'm just gonna say this. This is a childcare it really is. But a father's story is the greatest love story bended a world has ever known. Yeah, don't you know, you may have been with your, with your wife or husband for years and years. But this is the greatest love story that a world has ever known. And we believe there's only one place that we can start in Scripture is John 316. John, Ben and it says quite simply, For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life was what you know, this been 316 People use it. Yeah, they don't know and use it poorly. You know, sort of take it for granted really be viewed let's if we dig into that, we dig into that. This is the greatest love story that the Lord loved the world that father loved the world so much that He gave His only son. And through that, been through that just through that been you know, you can make stuff and if it makes a poor man Rich is sick man. Well, a bad man good. An educated man wise and a dead man. Come alive a mess Jesus Christ Ben. This is such a powerful message that you know, we've said it before and will continue to cite here. If you simply accept Jesus that's amazing and that will save you but the real key to it is following Jesus to the forefront and knowing In what how much the father loved you, because this is how much the father loved you. And we've seen and I've been in churches recently, where, you know, lovely churches but there's no cross, the cross is taken out cross has been taken out. And so it scrubs everything out to do with with the Word of God because the cross is the center point, isn't it? And that is John 316. What did what did God give his son for for redemption? Jesus Christ, yeah. So that if the cross has been removed, he removing the father story, you're removing everything by removing the cross. I don't when I when I look, or even when I lift the cross off the wall when the church is here, and we have to do something. I get quite fearful of touching the cross. Do you know what I mean? Like the cross to me. It's not that I worship the cross as a symbol and I lift I was an idol. But I understand what happened at that cross. And if I remove that cross, I'm removing the father's story. I'm I'm removing everything under the umbrella of the Bible. The cross is where the father when
Simon Pinchbeck:you You're exactly on the point when and the thing is, with the cross when ever we feel not worthy alone, ever will feel the world wants to tell us we're rubbish the world you know, people around us all pulling us down. Yeah, we need the Crosta look to run a got a look to the cross and see what the Father done. He loved the world so much that He gave His only son. And across really, is the statement from John 316.
Reverend Ben Cooper:He's made it makes me really emotional lately, over the last number of months, I look at the cross and our route. And the reason that is, is because I really realized that God loves me unconditionally. Of all the billions of habit in the world. But Alex, and each and every one of us. And each and every one of us falls into John 316. The sacrifice the father made with the church don't talk about that does it? And like even now just like it's almost you get lost on getting lost for a conversation because it is so powerful because the human mind can't comprehend. I think we can say John 316 so quickly. And so Plaza Yeah. For God so loved the world, because he got he just done it. And he didn't have no feelings. And he wasn't. Hang on a minute. No, no, this is the father if we if we take the Scripture as it is literally, the literal teachings it says, God Christ says, Our father on 11. So Father has feelings. Just because he's God, we see the feelings because of how he created and how this is a really enormous subject that when you actually start opening and unpacking that scripture and because also John 316 is used as the gospel, you know, almost it's been preached out of context, when really you're looking at it. It's the story of the father. It's the story of a father. Yeah, and you're right, Ben. So it's a scripture that points to for your own salvation. God Yeah. Right without really realizing but before our salvation before we ever could be saved, and the Bible says that God saved us while we was enemies and ungodly, yeah, God had to give a gift God had to give there had to be a given before we came into receiving but you made it you made a really brilliant point but you know, I don't say this too often. You made a point once every two years. You've made a brilliant point then because before you before you can before Yeah, you've got to give Enya you got to give and you give unconditionally. Otherwise if I'm giving you something because I know I'm going to get some a band aid and really love is it it's not that love it or worse a business that's a lover.
Simon Pinchbeck:It's a transaction to transaction. I'll give you you know this and I don't want nothing back from it. Just take that's love. Unconditional Love and pay love. Look what's happened here. So the Father gives you some so I put it to you a lot less men so you have got a beautiful beautiful daughter. Now you would not want to see your daughter's stuff can't
Reverend Ben Cooper:can't go there can't go they can't my brain can't do it for the good of mankind can't can't do it can't even talk about how they can Yeah, so as a father, we won't get it won't get Because what also we don't get is the spiritual entities that was at work above the physical man Christ Jesus. So, when you look at the scripture that says he, when he went to the cross of Calvary and the book of Isaiah, He took our transgressions, our iniquities again, the church is so blase about them scriptures, because He is God because He is Christ. We expect it. But actually, no, I shouldn't expect it because I am unworthy. I am ungodly. I was a sinner. So we were told as an enemy, the Scripture says, I was an enemy in my sin to God, but God in His love reconciled us back to God through his Son, Jesus Christ reconciled once orders while that word reconciliation, why that is a massive word. And and here's the deal would have been everyone in the world has been reconciled by John 316. Every everybody everyone is saved. We know. Everybody reconciles. We're in reconciled to the Father. I would say this man, though, you know, I've wrote this down. You know, it's a bit like Winston Churchill, but but I'd say never as so much being said in so few words to so many. That meant so much. Wow. Yeah, yeah, it's true. Just that small, that small God so loved the world that He gave His only son. Anyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. So way back, this is way back. The fathers aren't the prodigal son scenarios, all that and all that sort of stuff we've spoke about across this is the way back, John 316 Is that way back to the Father. So when you look at what songs sign for God so loved the world, the church is going, Oh, God is love. God is love. God is love. The Bible says in Zachariah, I think we are prisoners of hope. So we are slaves to righteousness, we are children of the living God, God, God is with us. But before we was saved, while we was enemies, there was a sacrifice of a father handing over his son. And the John 316 tected, probably the most used text and taken out of context text. Because as soon as we go for God so loved we forget God. Because we go, he's love. So we dwell on love. I know God is love, but we the English check the westernized church dwells on God is love, and he loves everybody. But God is a God of rough. And we will never know what God went through. And the pain and the suffering and the thinking and the understanding that just because he's God doesn't mean to say, I can't even get there. I don't have the vocabulary, how my heart is feeling that the sacrifice was his one and only Son, whatever. Beautiful. Him in Christ alone to me sums up then because in Christ alone, it says this, he says, my hope is found. Yeah, but he also says the wrath of God was saying, yes, it Yeah, I'm getting there. Yeah, the wrath of God was satisfied. I don't need some. Margin. And when that is what happened, yeah, the raw anger was the world was just poured out into his own son. So not only do we have a separation, not that we only also have a sacrifice. Because when we take the Bible as it actually says, that's the Son, and that's the father. That's the dad. And that's the that's the sun. So the sun is always saying, I've come here to do my father's will. And the Father's Will was always the intention. And the understanding is the redemption plan. And there is no way out because Christ mentioned it twice, if it is possible, take this cup from me, but not my will. So the Father's Will was always the intention of redemption. There was no other way. There is there is no other way. And he is he's chosen and he's spoken into being the most brutal execution to human beings possible on the earth. But the Bible says, doesn't it that that Christ came down 14 generations and he humbled himself and he, he came into this world to seek and to save that which was lost while I was last night of sinner. And I was anti God. God gave a sacrifice. So it's no date isn't the Lord You think about are you actually getting a lot further? Well is the deal with this one Ben, you know you people are we've said it before on this on this platform. You know people jump on on Scripture like John Freeman sucks and like Jeremiah 2911 We're like, go, God, I know the plans I have for you plans to house. People go on. Praise the lord, Halle But you know, Jeremiah 2013 says, you will find me if you seek me with all my heart, you all your heart. Now what we're doing now is digging a bit deeper. And we're seeking the five and trying to find, trying to look at his heart and if we go to to Peter three, nine and three, it says, But beloved, do not forget this one thing that with the Lord one day is 1000 years and 1000 years is one day. So time is time. Yeah. Then he goes on to say the Lord is not slow concern, his promise at some as some counselors, but he is long suffering towards us, not willing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance. So he doesn't he doesn't want anyone to perish. So that you quite rightly said the crosses redemption for everyone. Everybody wants He wants no one to perish, but he wants you to come to repentance. So that's, you know, this is the God of love. Who loves you so much. It was sainted to each and every one of you out there this stuff in your life that you shouldn't have stuff in life you need to turn away from before you accept my son Jesus. Yeah, yeah, there's think there's things in all of us. The Bible talks about the power of the mind as well. You know, you murderous and adulterous generation, but hang on, I ain't done anything physically. It's not the physical, it's the thinking. So there are many people that won't do a physical act of sin, but the mind so all have sinned and fallen short of thy glory. So easy, isn't it? We're living in a world and almost a Christian world where that because you've committed a physical action of whatever that may be, you are a sinner when actually the mind takes all of us to places where we should be left by God been funny, I've just posted a scripture this morning in front of you should say that you didn't it's not a leader at all. It was just he's just this has come from the spirit it Romans 12, two, you know, men you know, we do not be conformed by the by this world. I don't mind some renewed but yeah, do not conformed to this world, but of renewing of your mind, which is so we can give our hearts to Jesus Yeah, but the mind but the mind is this constant thing we have to work on isn't in the mind is the place of endurance. You can have the heart after God David. But you've got the mind of look at that hot tub over there. Because it's the mind isn't it, you can you can have you can have a heart after God. But you got the body of a fallen sinner saved by grace. So God doesn't extract us off the earth and puts us in a holy huddle as he said to the Israelites, when you go into the Promised Land that I have given you do not conform to the to the pattern of the Canaanite the Hittite when when you go to that place I have given you do not conform to the way that they live well, so you might be saved. You're in the purpose of the will of God and yeah, this this is the thing without so in John 316 shows us that there is a one time redemption one sacrifice, the sinless Son gone through winter across this one time sacrifice whereas you know for all before the cross Yeah, it was like balls sheep and everything and it'd be killed. It was time and time again when it continuous and we've said that you know, this is a one time so one time redemption one time salvation should you choose to confess and repent and accept Jesus Yeah. But it's a daily sanctification it because what you've said there we'll go a bit further and our well we it's a continuous continual homage to the Lord Father forgive me Lord helped me not to be angry helped me Lord not to look out the window and look at that helped me not to get caught on that advertising helped me not to want no trainers pick out what you mean no trainers brands certain stretches of the world you know I mean, no gadgets, we're all have this. And as we get go deeper, yeah. The Spirit reveals more stuff. And then then when he reveals it, you can almost say On far from him, well actually, I'm not because we are actually bringing being brought under conviction. And the only way we can be brought under conviction is by the sacrifice and by the given, the father has to give before any of this can happen. The father. So if you can imagine, when Christ said, It is finished, the father knew that all the way from from when he said, Let there be light, and there was and when he spoke in the garden, to Adam, so he knew that there had to be a redemption plan. And, and even though he's God, he, everything in existence was leading up to the cross everything. So even the Father knows that that cross is coming. He knows that that day is coming when there has to be a handing over. Oh, well, you know, there is a key point because many people these days, this completely disregard the Old Testament, a madness, they want us to do unhitch, the Old Testament from the Bible. But the Old Testament is such a powerful foretelling of what's to come and, and everything in the Old Testament revealed to him just with the Bible in one year, just going through kinks, you know, yeah, this one is evil in the eyes of that one did evil in ICL is they're sacrificing children to mark all that sort of stuff was going on. And all that, yeah, that my God angry, is poured out on his son on a cross the wrath of God. And we will never understand the neverending never understand because the love of the Father Ben is beyond comprehension. He loves us all. Whoever you are, he loves you, and He loves you so much. He doesn't want you to stay where you are. And that's why He sent His Son, Jesus. And Jesus, you come as you are to Jesus. Yeah. And that's what he would do just can't is the depth of of it over the fire was Love, whatever you feel a love for your children, your mom, your dad, your wife, your husband, you cannot get there, the given of the sun, and the sending of the sun. So as even before the fall, God had a plan. Because the Bible says before the heavens and the earth were created, I knew you are formed in your mother's womb before the world began. Heat in the scripture says he knows the end from the beginning and the beginning, from the end, he knows everything about everything. So when the father story there, even though he is God, the God of heaven and earth, there was coming a time in his existence of when he had to reach the point of Calvary, and before that, and actually in the garden, and when when you look at where this started to happen, that he had to hand him over, as the sacrifice so even God, in all His goodness and His deity and his power and his, in his authority, and his sovereignty, was moving up to the cross, humanity was moving up to the cross, every every every one even God was moving up to the cross and the cross when when we think about the spiritual atmosphere, and and the sun and the moon and all the activity, the world just stopped, the demonic forces the power. What do we put that down to? The Scripture just gives us an outline. But you can imagine you can almost hear the Father shouting and as he was shouting, or something like that was happening that the earth just grown them buckled and the graves opened and when you really look at the power and the, the handing over of a son, to the scum of the world, what a story is amazing equalize economy, get the word just like handing over this, this pure this and even though when you look at theologically it's God. God handed himself over, but as taken the image of you can't get there that God has given his son but his Son is the image of the invisible God and in the deity and in the Trinity. God has given everything to save a bit of flesh and he's done it for you. It's done for me and for every single person that will that's what it is. Diddy Simon, because the sunset to the dead dead. If there's any way if there's any way dead. That please imagine that Kanye had someone probably gonna let Jesus didn't say please. Well, the way that I saw him saying pleased about the bag, and He sweated droplets of blood. Well, the agonizing Feeling of my dad is handing me over. Got to go through this, I got to go through this. And it's interested in it because Jesus says, Not my will. But hang on a minute. So there we see a separation as in plans. And, you know, we were coming on to something here because Jesus knew the Father's will. But even then he's in the flesh. He was saying to him if you know, excite this cup of wine, if, but here's the deal, see the the father, so the love between each other, but the father cannot change, Kenny, because he was the same yesterday. He says in a ruse today and forever. So the father's fixed, he can't change. This is what you've got a dad, but Dad, I'm your son. And then what does he say as he as he's coming out. And as John John says to him back in the Scripture bit further back. Behold the Lamb of God. John baptizes him. He rises, Heaven opens, the Holy Ghost falls down as a dove onto Christ. And God says that's my son. How often do you hear God's voice? The No, you That's my son, who I am well pleased. But Dad, you're sending me to the cross. But dad. And that. And this the depth of the Father's love. You know, I had a couple of things this week when I was looking at this and one of them is see the father doesn't love us because we're valuable. But we are valuable. Because he loves because He loves us. Yeah, we were enemies. Subject to sinners. Yeah, subject to God's rough. I can, I can only imagine in picture form because I do things what it would be like to be in the presence of gods are off, when we know that we don't like to talk about this sort of thing, but just how my mind works. What it's like for a human being to be in the presence of a of a, an atomic bomb going. It's just a turn to dust. But it is right is the deal. Been I'll keep saying that. But when we mess up, yeah. And we got your father, and we flew his son Jesus, we asked for forgiveness. What did he do? forgives her forgives us, and II gives us that. It gives us that spirit, that energy to get through whatever we're going through. So here's the thing. So it's like, we're going down the river on a canoe. And it's a beautiful day, and we're leaning back in the old kind of just paddling away there. And all of a sudden, it wasn't on the map. There's rapids, and they're pretty useless and went over it and I was Yeah, rapids, we're gonna die. You know, because the boats gonna smash up and everything. So we're caught out to God and we go Lord, Lord, Tony, spike around, take the rapids away. Go in light, and we're going out man. And last minute, what does he do? Bang raises the level of river and we float over the top. And that's called grace in it. undeserved favor he gives us but to his own son. The roof of God he had to do was was poured out on him. So we understand don't we now we don't understand. Oh, it's difficult. But I just thinking about the the now's it wasn't the strength. And it wasn't the power of the iron ore that made the nows that kept him on the cross of Calvary, you know, the love of the father put into the cross, that let him the love of Jesus. So the world of the Father because God Christ loves his father. And we see that clearly because he was obedient to the Father's will. Because he said, Not my will. Now what what could be in that will of Jesus? I've done if I want to do this for this law. How many times have we heard in the Old Testament where God has actually said, I'm gonna wipe you off the face of the earth? What would he do with site? Gomorrah? My anger is burning against you, you know, and Abraham had to pray for just 10 people, you know, yeah. But so the will of the Father and the will of Jesus. Christ went to the cross, because of the obedience to the Father's will. The Father's Will was to sacrifice the son When we look at salvation, we are saved because of the lamb because of Christ. He is. But the Old Testament says, He is our rock, and our Redeemer. So it is, it is God. That saves, because in Psalm 91 was to fall over, it saves. It's the Father. Yeah. It's the father of what it sounds he says in in 316, than it's the Father. God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, though, so whosoever shall believe in me, he doesn't go to the Father doesn't love us because Jesus died for us. No. But Jesus died for us. Yeah, because He loves us. It's just mind blowing. Yeah, yeah. And even people go to, you know, Genesis chapter 22, and go with a foreigner. But with Abraham and his son, you that might be a foreigner in the way that we look at that. But Abraham knew that he would get his son back. So Abraham was going by faith with God, there had to be a separation. Abraham's son went to the table and went to the lifting of the knife. Christ went beyond the knife. And he went beyond a fitness surreal. And that's the point I've been thinking about, Ben, recently is that you know, plenty of people around the world and you do an excellent podcast on a persecuted church with plenty of people around the world have given their lives our death for the law. Yeah. And they're horrendous circumstances. Some things you can't even talk about, think about, you know, but with them, they go in with that. Hope. That light Yeah, they see. Light Stephen when he was being stoned, he just saw the Holy Spirit, that glory that the lie everything, everything. But here, but here, Jesus was separated from the Father as a separation. So when when, when martyrs a sacrifice, there's no separation, no separation. This is the only this is the only place in history and in the world and time where no other god. No one would ever die. To save the world. No one, no gods, no leaders, no one, no one on earth. Someone might die, as the scripture says, For a good person. But no one has sacrificed like what we are looking at at this moment. No one, no gods, no, all these other world religions, when you look at that, there is not one of them, that has gone to a cross where the father has handed their son over. So what we have today is a subject, that if the church within the West would really preach and teach on it would just remove this Billy smart circus approach to what we got, please, please when it you know completely just, look, just take this one scripture, you know, John 316, is the father's anthem for redemption. And you know, so the Father has given it was given is this When did he come back then Simon, so he was given. And the scripture says that Jesus died, he died died.
Simon Pinchbeck:So it's a story of a horrible Friday. Gloomy Saturday, but a glorious Sunday, because when he is when he Yeah, rose again, but he died, he died in the body in the physical flesh that
Reverend Ben Cooper:he died. And the Scripture tells us where and the depths of shoulder and everything that went on and we get that, but there was an experience of death, mortal death, physical death, so there was a separation. And isn't it interesting that he didn't go home? Not like us within a twinkling of an eye, you'll be with me in paradise. Yeah. So there is an area that humanity will never understand about death and separation. Because if martyrs, when martyrs are martyred as solid says, gone, gone, were gone to God. But Christ was given as a sacrifice, that sacrifice died to that sacrifice, when the depth the depth fineness and the studying this is beyond human understanding. Beyond the the theologian or theologians and beyond the academic stress because there is a spiritual side to this, that we will never understand or understand it the relationship that we will never understand the feelings that will never understand the love that you will never understand you can't put God in a box as it is there is never computed, never work it out, never grasp it never, never understand the father's the father's story, the father's story of complete separation, but the father's story was always a story of giving, giving, giving, giving, and giving only that needs to be told over and over again, old tent Old Testament is just fulfilling the Father's plan. Before I was planned for salvation and redemption, which was for the ever since Adam, he was looking for a way to bring his creation, race back to him. And this is the only way that it could have happened. Because, as we said before last week, if if Jesus had committed if Jesus had committed one sin, he would have died for himself. Yeah. It was sinless, sin less, you sin less. And what did it cost the father it cost him his Son, Jesus in it. Now what's the condition of that salvation is that we believe in His Son. And what once he's been is that we will not perish and we we shall have everlasting life. That is a win win thing, isn't it? You know, if you if you believe in Jesus Christ, Just believe. The erba don't understand it. That doesn't matter. Just believe in your heart, just believe just believe the faith on the cross to feves to face one who hadn't got any didn't want anything to do with Jesus and the other one to turn to Him and you'll be with me that day in paradise, please remember me. Within a twinkling of an eye, you'll be with me in paradise. So there is no separation is there from a from a human being, understanding from God, because the Scripture says, As the psalmist writes, If I was to die, and to go to the very depths of the earth, you'll be there. If I go to the heavens, you'll be there the left the right, wherever you are, you are there. But with Christ and the Father, there is that separation, and the spiritual powers of the atmosphere and the universes and the way the earth reacted to when Jesus said, because nothing happened until Jesus said it is finished. So when Christ said it is finished, not only was it the Old Testament being fulfilled, and US stretching into a new covenant is written, that at that moment in time, no human being will ever understand. Except that the understanding of God and Jesus that when Christ said it is finished and bowed his head, at that point, you can almost hear a roar ripping through the universe of the father just Well, that's what happened and the temple curtain got ripped into. But that is just a very slight thing when you think about it. And the universe's must have shaken, the sun, the moon, the stars, darkness fell. And in the picture movie, the greatest story ever told John Wayne was a centurion who turned on when he truly was the Son of God, what a rubbish. But when you lose a father story, this is the greatest love story that the world has ever seen or ever will see. This is the greatest it cannot be anything more. Because on that cross, the the human part of Jesus was fighting to stay alive on it. Yeah, it was. Live on that on that. Yeah, yeah. But there's some great wishes to be fulfilled, just fulfilled in what? The fourth, the fulfilling of the father's story because until Christ said, It is finished, salvation didn't exist. No, no, until until that point. But up until that point, there was still the connection of the Father and the Son. Until Jesus said it's finished dead. And you make a good point right now, right now in a place called CERN in Switzerland. Yes. They're trying to recreate the big bang that started off life had lon come in what a crazy time to explode, bounce Sam's off each other, but it was the biggest power power that ever the world has seen ever. I would say it's the biggest power over creation over the whole lot. That whole that whole understanding of Christianity, of when Jesus said It is finished. That Pentecostal message will be Yeah, he's written. So while we rejoicing, God has just, I don't know, I don't even know where to put it. I can just see the universe's and the world's just out there. buckling under the almost screaming of the of the God that just handed his son over to a world that is still still blaspheming his son, he looks upon His sinless Son, the cries were opened, covered in order iniquity sin of the orrible corrupt a world which has been and the rough is the anger, he looks towards his son. Imagine that the anger is looking towards his son and in his anger is satisfied. And the temple carton was torn into. So grave shook. When you open up this fiber story you said very early on, to love, you have to give. And this is the greatest love story because the father is given us His Son. And he gave us His Son as a shining example. And then he gave us His Son as a pathway back to him for salvation when he died on the cross, and rose again, you know, I've had just died on the cross. Then it just been another Yeah, character profit in in history. But rose again, rose again on the rise, because he's father breathed into him. So that that place of, of separation when you look at that, and you study that and you try and bring all that together what happened at the cross the father story, finished and started at the cross as well. Yeah, it started and it's it stopped everything that he had prophesied through the prophets of old, all the commandments, all the sacrifices, everything was like an arrow coming to him going. This is the data. This is it. This was a this is this is it where all we spoke about all that we planned together as the Trinity as everything that has been written about 1000s of years of the prophets for telling them for speaking. This is the moment.
Simon Pinchbeck:It it's huge. It's massive, because that must be current current is huge man.
Reverend Ben Cooper:This is the moment where all the writings come to the moment not when soldiers are banging the nouns in but when Jesus says it is finished, it's finished. So what do you mean Jesus? The relationship first between my father and me, has finished for a moment. But it started because I had to be handed over. So there had to be a separation or handing over. We won't never understand this story. And because it's so supernatural, no, no, the more the more you try and work into it. And the more you use it, the more you can't you can't work it out because Jesus is the salvation. But also, as you said, is the reconciliation back to the Father. Because he said in John 14, six in the arm, the way that life and the truth, no one comes to the Father except for me. And that was prophetic. Yeah, Scripture. No one comes to the Father except for Jesus. Yeah. And now he's made a way for us to be saved. And he's made a way for us to go back to the Father. So when you look at Jesus, we owe everything. When you look at Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane, and he said, if it's possible, take this cut from me. I actually wonder if he was thinking or thought to be separate from a father? Well, it's got a got that's got to come in. It's gonna come into the thought pattern as you I don't want to be separated for this lot. Yeah. So the pain of being a movie said it, we've said it before the pain of being put on a cross. It just, it goes into insignificance compared to the pain of being separated from his father because he was never separate from his father, me and my Father are one. This is you know, I don't do anything without the Father. Well, I do everything. You know everything, all of Scripture in the Gospel of Jesus talks about his father. And now he knows that him and a father can't be separated. So everything is about their relationship first. Everything is trying to ease. He's setting the scene. Yeah, he's setting the scene for this. Father Son. Yeah. But it's the Father, Son, Father, Son, Father, Son. Because before salvation can be recognized and given given to anyone. There had to be an act. There has to be buying back. It's enormous, isn't it? And like, when you look, I even have to be careful. I use his word Easter now. Because I have to look at that now as the Passover, the passing over, I can't look at the word Easter anymore, especially in the world world of church, because all we a lot of lot of what we see on Easter weekend is a lot of churches together, and a lot of churches and cross bands is just what we've come to, then, you know, not crossed been Easter shall be every day. So it should be every day. Because over the past in over, we should the angel of destruction, God, we should be thanking Jesus every day for what he's done for us. Oh, God, come to church, and we give you an hot cross bun. Not just celebrating, you know, on a Friday on some random Friday, you know, every day is resurrection day for me every day, every moment because I'm being revived and restored and washed and saved. How many times you're gonna forgive me? 777? What do you mean? It's forever, because there is no end to my forgiveness. But God, I've just done this. But I love you. Why do you love me? Because of unconditional love. And my son was a sacrifice. The Atonement so much in it, and I've reached it. We've reached today. Yeah, we've come to the end today. Yeah. Now I think next week, we're going into will go into this this. I don't think we can go into it much deeper. But we'll we'll see what the consequences are for the world and the Father, and the son thing and stuff that that how the father, son, father, child, Father, daughter relationships need need to need to be strengthened in today's society. Unbelievable. So with that, Ben, we just want to say thank you for listening. And wherever you are, we pray that you're good at your end. We're very good at this. And but this stuff as we talk, you know, this is just straight out a barrel of truth is straight from our hearts. It's real, coming straight, downloaded straight from the Holy Spirit. And we go through stuff that that we've never even thought of before. And we discuss it. So it's coming straight to you raw, have to hashtag Christian straight to live in. Living as believers, but also having all every temptation frosted at your head and your heart. Living in a world that is just sovereignty, God, there is nothing. I'm experiencing things in my life that I never thought I'd experienced the thoughts I never thought I'd experienced. But you know, what the Father story still goes on for me is that he just made a way for you to back to the Father and the Father's arms are there. And we'll talk about it next week. But when you're in those farmers arms and the love you received from the Father, who don't want to be anywhere else, I don't I don't see how the church within the UK can talk about anything else but the love of the Father because that is the preachers and the teachers out there. You would never come to an end of a sermon. Would you? You'd never be talking about all the crazy stuff that's going on in the churches. If you spoke about this, if you kept in John 316 and if you just spoke about the love of the Father, you're going to see the greatest revival ever. Just before we go I was doing something gone very quickly do some big on Saturday morning. thing we do called Bold encounter and what we do we get number guys and they write a letter to their father earthly father. And then they write a letter from God to you now. If so, just point out one one fellow rendus childhood, you know, no love at all from from his barber. It was a second marriage and this year, this fellow in his 50s had no love from the Father. And He poured all that out in his letter to his father, and then a letter from her father to him. I can't do it. Go Ben Dhawan go for it but the left it said this it said about 10 times I love you I love you. I love you. I love you. Get it haha Because, because whatever's and we'll talk about it more next week, but what ever gap there is in whoever you are in your fall in your earthly father, your heavenly Father will fill that gap with His love with his trust. And we'll talk about it more next week. But Ben, it's been an absolute privilege, again, to be speaking with you over the mics and we pray a blessing on everyone who's listened to this. And, you know, the Father's arms are waiting for you. And you get to them through Jesus im actually lost for words. the Father's love is just too much. It's too much. God bless everybody. 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