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You are about to listen to the song from Reverend Dr. Holly.

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It says that for dogs have surrounded me. And it says that congregation of the wicked has enclosed me. They pierce my hands and my feet. I can count all my bones. They look and stare at me. They divide my garments among them. And for my clothing they cast lots. Oh, hallelujah. So when you read the book of Psalm, it is just not someone singing praises and worship. There were prophecies. And that's why David was a man after God's father. The man was a prophet. You know, some of the prophets who didn't even say anything about their Christ. They were prophesying about Israel and their sins and their persecution. They were not even looking at God's agenda. Look at what the book of Psalm was talking about. They cast a lot on my garments and pierced my hands. And they pierced, Charlie, if you read the Psalms, even the book of Samuel, the number of messianic prophecies that were fulfilled through the Psalms, you will never read the Psalms the same way again. You will never. You would never. If you take this Easter period to go through the scriptures, to just even Google, you know what the Psalms say about the crucifixion or the death of Jesus. It will shock you. Now people are using the book of Psalms for all sorts of things that they are not. Now, because we've seen the cross, we can now understand what David was saying through his songs. A hallelujah. Isaiah chapter 53, verse 7. He said he was oppressed and he was afflicted. Yet he opened not his mouth. He was led as a lamp to the slaughter. If you read the whole chapter, you realize that there were many revelations of what happened to Jesus. Because he never uttered a word. When he was taken to the different priests and the sentence, he never wanted a word. He was led like a sheep. He knew he was going to die. He never commanded for any angels to appear for anything. So even Isaiah was pointing, was saying things that pointed to the cross and the Christ. Hey, hallelujah. Zachariah chapter 12, verse 10, he says that they will look on me whom they pierced. Oh, hallelujah. So the cross was not an accident, it was a prophetic fulfillment of God's agenda, of God's will, of God's purposes. And you know, if you look at your life that way, you realize that nothing just happens. Even for the most painful seasons of your life. I'm telling you, if you walk with God, even the things that were meant to bring you shame would fulfill his purposes. How did the cross fulfill prophecy? How did the cross, how was it the wisdom of God on display? And I pray for you. You know, people were talking about the elder, elder Donko, the man who lost his two sons. You saw the funeral. Did you watch the funeral? The man was praising God. The man was, he's not a bishop, an archbishop, he's not a prophet, though. You know, he was a Pentecost elder, and they had a prayer, um a prayer camp. Pentecost church had some prayer camps, but it got to a point when they did not agree with some of the practices of the prayer camp. So the church of Pentecost issued a disclaimer and separated itself from the prayer camp. The two people who died, the two boys who, or the two men who died in the aeroplane at Tema, they were buried only which day, I think over the weekend. Their father is the pastor of the Hebron prayer camp. And you should see the man, he was encouraging the church. And people on social media were surprised. But that is the life of a believer. No, many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him. He saw the purposes of God in that pain. And many of you are so sensitive in this, what has happened, and that has happened. You should see this man smiling at his children's bread and dancing to Elder Miracle, celebrating God. I pray for. We have produced a generation of weaklings, people who are only with God for what they can get. Bless me, bless my family. You know, it is always what we can get. If you look at the cross, are you are you dearer than Jesus? Are you more loved? Wait, are you more loved than Jesus? For you to think you will not go through certain things in your life, and you think you failing and exams is an act of God's love absent in your life. You you think a job not going through or a season of darkness in your life is a fact or a proof that God doesn't love you or God has neglected you. How about Jesus? The events of the cross point to a deeper. The man, when I look at Elder Donko, the fact that he didn't even take Pastor Donko, he's just an elder. Many of you are chasing names and titles. This man is just was just appointed an elder and a deacon in the Pentecost. Look at what he has built at Hebron as an elder. No tax, no official, and he's a simple man. He was just in a standalone because his son was flying across the world. One of the richest people you could ever see, but so simple. And you know, he exemplified Christianity in this laws. He preached at church on Sunday. You know, follow what's worthwhile content on social media. Some of you are on social media and you are watching rubbish. Some of these things should encourage you. And people were talking about Reverend Eastwood. You know, like we are not better than the people who go through the things they go through. And I pray that our eyes will be opened in this season of Easter. For your work with God to be deeper than what it is. Our work is too superficial. Where you can trust God to the point of death, that even in debt, this man didn't count its loss. Even in debt, having lost two sons who've paid, I've just paid few school fees for everybody. Like you God, like you've paid fees for your your son to be a pilot and not just a pilot, a pilot instructor. Your other son is done with investing, you lost both of them with their aeroplane in a day, and even that the man was noble. He was in church, and you have an IA, you can't be in church. Your boyfriend broke your heart, so you've stopped edifying church. Your mother is sick, your mother is not there, though. Your mother is sick, so you are home resting. Which breed of Christians are we raising? We are not strong. And I pray it's my prayer. So, as I was meditating through this scripture, I said, God, give us strength. When I was looking at the events of the cross, I said, Wow, you did all that, and it was your love. That was love, not this generation. Our definition of love is different, our expectations of God is different, and I pray that in this Issa period we will be reflective, we will reflect, and we'll take out all this softy life, soft life, all your needs met, hallelujah.

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It was prophecy fulfilled.

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Number three, we are going to learn some theological words associated with the cross. Hallelujah. You you are if you are a student or you are a member of the edified church, you can't be an ignorant Christian. If you are, it's your choice. It's not because we are not taught, hallelujah. It's because you didn't listen or you didn't pay attention. So we let's look at some words that you must know. Hallelujah. So, number one, substitutionary atonement, hallelujah. Substitution, but substitutionary atonement, which is the fact that he died in our place. Second Corinthians chapter 5, verse 21 says that for he made him who knew no sin to be seen for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him. So he became sin for us so that we can take on his righteousness. So he became our substitution. You you you you you watch a football match and you realize that a player is playing, and then they take that player out and they put another player in to play in that same position. That's a substitution, a replacement. So a debt that we were supposed to die, he died in our place. We took on his righteousness, he took on our sin. In other words, there was a beautiful exchange. You have taken out a tired, useless player on the field, and you have put on a fresh, energetic, so you can realize that if your substitution is bollard, then you are in trouble. The substitution should be better. You know, many substitutions come and score the goal they are looking for, and that was what Jesus did for us. Hallelujah. He was the substitutionary atonements. Jesus became what we were so he could be, so that we could become what he was. He didn't just die for us, he died as us. That's English. He didn't die for us, he died as us. And what is the scriptural backing to this? In 1 Corinthians chapter 11, verse 23, it says that for I received from the Lord that which I also was also delivered to you. Okay, let me read it again. For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you. That the Lord Jesus, on the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread. And when he had given thanks, he broke it and he said, Take it. This is my body which was broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me. In the same manner, he took the cup after supper. Now take note that you see, when you read the Bible and you read the Bible as an Akan or as a Ghanaian, you see things that make meaning that don't make sense to you. I don't know whether you are getting me. He took the cup after supper. What does it mean in Eastern, you know, or uh ancient near East culture where Jesus was born? Because in that culture, you can't covenant after a meal. You go into eternal covenants, sharing a meal with the person you are going into the covenant with, whether a covenant with a spirit or a physical contract or a physical covenant, you normally do it after a meal. Hey, hallelujah. So after a meal, you now take cup or a wine, which should represent blood, because they were not using physical blood. And when you do that, you become one with the person you entered the covenant with. So by the time the last supper was done, Jesus became them. So he went to the cross as the world. The iniquities of the world were laid upon him because he had entered covenants and he had become one with them through the Holy Communion. So when we eat the communion, it's not just some bread and wine we are eating, it is a place where you become him. Hey hallelujah. It was carefully chosen, and that's why I said, as often as you do this, remember the covenants. The fact that I became you and died on your behalf so that you will never carry the burdens of sin again. When you watch Nigerian movies, they will cut themselves and join the blood, and you know, one of them will run mad pair because someone will not, someone will not keep their covenants. There are terms of every covenant, there are conditions of every covenant. And in their society, covenants were established over meals. After the meal, you enter the covenant. And he says that that's why it says that this is the new covenant in my blood. So it was at the last supper that the covenant was established when Jesus became them. Hey, hallelujah. So that when he faced the cross, he was facing the cross as a sinfully bankrupt man. All his life he was the Son of God. But he went into covenant with them at the Last Supper so that he could become them. And then on the cross he could die as us. Hey, hallelujah. Oh, hallelujah. This is the new covenant in my blood. This do as often as you drink, do it in remembrance of me. Remember that he died in your place. And remember that you have taken on his righteousness. He didn't go to the cross as the Son of Man, otherwise, he would have never died. The nails could have pierced, you would have never died. But through that covenant, he took on sinful flesh. He became one with sinfully bankrupt men. Oh, hallelujah. So anytime we drink the wine and we eat the bread, it is a reminder that you are no longer just you have something divine on your inside. You became one at that holy communion. And that is why we have to do it continually to remember what happened that night before he was betrayed. It was after that night, it was after that event that Judah stood up and went to repetray him. He couldn't have been before.

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Oh, hallelujah. He became one with them through the breaking of bread.

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By the time the soldiers came, he stood as one with sinful men and suffered as them. He didn't suffer as the Son of Man. He suffered as the son. See, listen, the day your eyes open to this, you can be weak. But you are in covenant with a strong person. If you understand this, you will not allow the devil to worry your life. No matter how weak you are, the communion is to be a reminder that a transaction has happened. Reckon that transaction. You see, it's like a wedding ring. Remember that you took a covenant with a woman. Otherwise, sometimes life will make you forget. Nice ladies will make you forget you are in covenant with someone. That is why you wear the band. When you look at the band, remember, and everybody else will know that. Listen, you have entered a covenant with someone. I pray for you. Then this season of Christmas, you reckon that a beautiful exchange happened and he died on your behalf, so that you can live the life that he has destined you to live. Oh, hallelujah. Number two, propitiation. Propiciation is the act by which God's righteous wrath against sin is satisfied through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ. So is there definitions to the words? So you are all supposed to understand the words, right? Propriciation. When you hear of propitiation anywhere, it is the satisfaction of the wrath of God. How would you name a judge, you know, who release a murderer? What do you say of that judge? A murderer, someone who murdered a loved one of yours, and you went to court and the judge said, I'm a very good man. So the murderer should go. What would you do? What would you do? What would you say of the judge? The judge is not the judge is unjust, right? The judge is unjust. So the wrath of God must be satisfied. For God to be a just judge, the punishment of sin must be established. It must happen. It could not just go for free. So when we talk about propitiation, we are talking that the acts by which God's righteous wrath against sin is satisfied through the sacrificial death of Jesus. So the cross was a propitiation of our sins, where the wrath of God was satisfied. So a believer who is still talking about one day when Jesus appears, will be in a queue and will be going to hell, doesn't understand the cross. What would have happened in hell happened at the cross for a believer. For someone who doesn't accept his sacrifice, that person will face that judgment which Christ received on our behalf. He died, or the cross represented a propitiation of sin. Or in other words, God's wrath was satisfied. Romans chapter 3, verse 25. He says that whom God set forth as a propitiation by his blood. These words are in the Bible, and I'm just trying to say that when we read the Bible, we should understand what they mean. Propreciation just means that a job, like a grada, she was sentenced to prison. She served her term. But the term, you see, I think she was sentenced to 10 years or 15 years, and then she served one year. You see, they couldn't have released her after the one year. A new judgment has to be set to one year before she could have been released, meaning that she has served her term. The new judgment sets aside the old judgment. The old judgment is 15, so she's supposed to be in prison for 15. By new judgment means that one year. So when you serve the one, this is the judgment, the 15 years, we don't know it. So when we talk about the propitiation of sin, we mean that God's judgment of our sin was established and fulfilled by the cross. So there is no sin left to be judged. Otherwise, the work on the cross is not complete. This should give confidence to a believer. We have confidence in his appearance because we know that the cross did a perfect job. No, like there is no agrada has served her terms. There is no term left to be served again. It's not like one day we wake up and say she has some six months. It has been established, it is done. When you heard Jesus say it is finished, it means that all the wrath of God, all the punishments, everything that was meant for us had been fulfilled. It has been satisfied. We've served our prison term, we've been lashed, we've been beaten. Whatever punishment is there for sin has been fulfilled. I'm telling you, this doesn't make people sinners. Would I go? That is the believer who has not been taught. You are in the wrong church. Your pastor hasn't done his job. The cross, when we talk about Easter, the reason why we say it's a good Friday, although a man was battered, a man was beaten till he was not recognizable. Bible said that his beard was plucked off his face. He was beaten. If you understand what God saw as good, you'll be celebrating it. We will not wear you know those days when we're in the Orthodox church, we wear red clothes, you know, and red uh black clothes, and we are going to we go in the whole church, everybody's sad. Like we are in the funeral. We have not come to a funeral. Hey, hallelujah! We are good Friday. We didn't say bad Friday. You know, the worst thing that ever happened in history was the cross. When a righteous man was killed, the righteous man, how would you call someone who never committed sin, who was punished, who was this who was disgraced and all. It was an unrighteous act, but that same act was the best act that ever happened in history. And if you understand this, there is every cause to celebrate, there is every cause to jubilate. On Good Friday, we are not sad because of the pain. We look at what it accomplished, and the Bible said it was good. Hallelujah. It was good, the propitiation of our sins, which means he satisfied the wrath of God. The cross satisfied divine justice. Divine justice. There is no justice left again for the believer. There is justice left for the unbeliever. But for the one who accepts Jesus as you know Lord and personal savior, that judgment was fulfilled. It was taken in him. He did a perfect job. Oh, hallelujah. I could end my sermon there and we'll go home and be blessed. Hallelujah. Number three, redemption. Redemption, which means purchase from bondage. The forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his glory. In him we have redemption. Redemption means what? Purchase from bondage, the bondage of sin. Sin brings bondage. Sin traps a man. You go deeper and deeper and deeper, you don't discover yourself anymore. Any sin you are playing with will take you deeper than you want to go. It will take you further than if you start lying right now, lying will take you further than you ever want to go. If you have anger, you don't deal with it. By the time you realize you are in prison. Hallelujah. See, the correction of God, it will save you many things in this life. I'm telling you, release from bondage. If you know what we've been released from, it will be a cost to celebrate. And sometimes you don't know the bondage you are living in until you are free. Many Christians can't celebrate because they are not really free from sin. I'm telling you, the sins they used to struggle with, they are still struggling in. So they don't know the joy of being released from bondage. I pray for you that the reality of the work that Jesus has done. And when we talk about sin, everybody is thinking about sexual sin. Everybody is thinking about the sins, everybody condemns. We are talking about, you know, sin for Pastor Bright is not sin for me. Sin for Stephen, you know, you can walk with God to a certain stage in your life where something that people will clap for is sin for you, for the stage in which you have come to. You know, the other day, Avery came to me and said, Daddy, I want to we be. I was so happy as a father. You don't get what I'm saying, eh? Because of where she's coming from, where she would have just peed on herself. I remember. Took her to a party and she weed. She weaved on it. We have to leave the party. You know, we we start we stopped using diaper for her, and then when we thought she had grown up, then she disgraced me. So now that she can come and say, I want to we're an accomplished father. You see, but when she grows up, that will not be the metrics again. You got what I'm saying? At one stage, this is allowed, but at another phase, it is not. And I'm I'm praying that you would experience real freedom from bondage. The bondage of you know, sin, eh? It just blends all the potentials that you would ever walk in. You will never know what you were made to be. I'm telling you, you you may not insult anyone, you may not lie, you may not commit fornication or adultery, but you are living, you see, the Bible said that for all have sinned and are falling short of the glory of God. So there is a standard of God. And the Bible says that sin brings you. So it means that if you are made to be a human being, you are living like an ant. And those are the effects of sin. So when we say freedom from bondage, we are saying that you are now free to live like a human being and no longer an ant. And that's what the cross accomplished: the redemption. The redemption that we'll be free to walk in the power of God, we'll be free to walk in all that God has created us to be. There is every cost, every cost to celebrate the cross because it was at the cross that redemption was purchased, where true freedom from sin, true freedom from the bondage it brings, was established. I pray for you that the real glory of God, which is supposed to be on your life, would be seen on your life. Because there is true redemption through the cross. Redemption, redemption, redemption, redemption. Your true potential will be released. Some of you are supposed to be walking in the anointing at this stage of your life. Some of you are supposed to be walking in realms of glory. Some of you are supposed to teach with wisdom. You are now working like a babe. At this point, we are still chasing you to come to church. When you are supposed to be healing the sick and raising the dead, that is what sin does for all have seen and have falling short. I pray for you that through the redemption of the cross, you will not fall short of that glory again. You live to the full potential that God has called you to live in. Then, is it number four or five? Four reconciliation. These are key words we are defining. This is a teaching service. If you are coming for a teaching service, bring pen and paper. Because we write. If you don't have pen and paper, take a notepad and write. Because if we close church now and I walk to you and say, what are the terms we use? You will not remember. When I said give to our those of you, Pastor Bright, you there you are a shark, but still write. Hallelujah. Everybody should write something. This is a teaching service. So reconciliation, is that what I said? Oh reconciliation. Colossians chapter 1, verse 20. It says that and by him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of the cross. Oh, hallelujah! And by him to reconcile all things to himself, a reconciliation. It's like two friends who are no longer friends again. And you have reconciled. It means that the relationship which was broken has been restored. And the Bible said that through the cross we had been reconciled back to God. It means that we have access to God. We can walk boldly to the throne of grace and obtain mercy in the time of need. We no longer have, we are no longer enemies of God. The cross accomplished that for you. The relationship has been repaired. Whatever trouble has separated you from. Some of you are still living as though the cross never happened. Because you are still in a toxic relationship with God. A relationship where there is no communication. A relationship where you don't hear God, God doesn't hear you. You are just two different people living your reconciliation means the relationship had been repaired. There are many married people, they live in the same house, but they sleep in different rooms. They wear the same clothes to church, but they don't talk in the house. Oh, is there is the reality? It looks like a relationship, but it's not. Bible said that there was reconciliation through the cross. That reconciliation means that we have been that relationship which was broken had been repaired. And we have access back to God. We have access to God. We have access to God. We have access today. If you are on your way back to your room, you can reach out to Him. You can reach out to Him. The fastest connection you can ever establish is your connection with God. Even MTN will sometimes say out of coverage area. But because of the cross, we have been reconciled. So that no matter where you are, a prodigal son among pigs can lift up his or her voice and say, Abba Father. And say Abba Father. And the father will respond because the father doesn't hate us anymore. The father doesn't despise us anymore. Because of the cross, we have been reconciled. The relationship has been repaired. He calls us his own. Hallelujah. He calls us his own. Number five, justification. Romans chapter 5, verse 1. Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God. Oh, hallelujah. I explained justification. How is a man made right with God? How is a man made just? It means a sinful man, a problematic man is made right with God. How? The cross. Have you seen the kings that the cross accomplish? Justification, reconciliation, substitutionary what? Atonement. What else did I mention? I mentioned propitiation, redemption, which is purchase from bondage, reconciliation, justification is what I just read. Justification means you have been declared righteous. Hey, hallelujah. You saw what our girl did. Can you imagine the judge said? She has never scammed those people. You know, some of you said the things one day when you go to heaven, a video will be playing, and then all your previous sins will come on the screen. It is not scriptural. It is nowhere in scripture. It says their sins and their transgressions I will remember no more. Why is that the case? It is justification. It is a sinful man declared righteous as though they have never committed any sin, because it is not our filthy racks as righteousness, it is his righteousness which has been imputed unto us. We stand before the Father as Jesus Christ. As a sinfully, as a sinfully made righteous man, you are no longer carrying your sins. You stand before God as Jesus. That's why the cross is the best thing to happen to us. Because we who are guilty, we are guilty. It's just like that little boy who goes to mommy and say, Mommy, I didn't take the millow. And Milo is all over your shirt. Right? Everything points to the fact that you have committed all the wrongs, but in Jesus, ah, we are justified. The justification is a declaration from the throne that this one is righteous. It is a divine determination. It is not your acts. There is no screen going to play anywhere. It is to hallelujah. I used to be afraid, Paul. One day we go to heaven, there'll be a big screen playing. Of course, yeah, yes, come for it. Then CCTV cameras who come, all the things you did in the dark. Yes, you did them anyway. But because of Jesus and because of the cross, a sinful man or woman is declared righteous. And that's why we thank him for the cross. We celebrate the cross because a sinful man is declared. It's a declaration, it's not the fact that you never committed, it's a declaration that you are righteous. In the eyes of the law, Agrada has paid it all. She has not done anything. You have nothing on her. Hallelujah. She has paid it. Now I'm coming close to the end of the sermon. The cross and Satan's defeat. Colossians chapter 2, verse 15. It says that having disarmed principalities and powers, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them. Let me read the whole scripture. Colossians chapter 2, verse 15. Some of you are still afraid of the witches in your hometown. Some of you still cannot say that you have finished medical school. You have been a doctor for eight years now, but you are afraid to celebrate. Let's see what has happened to all those bugger, you know, all those bugger witches and wizards in the hometown that people are afraid of. People can't visit their hometown because if you go, they will kill you. Let's read. Colossians chapter 2, verse 15. He says that having disarmed, oh, let me even start from the beginning. It says, verse 13, and you being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has made a life together with him. Having forgiven you all your trespasses, not some of your trespasses, all. Hey, hallelujah. It is a sum, it said, having forgiven. We are not going to be forgiven. We have been forgiven. It is done, it is established. Hey, hallelujah. Your past sins are forgiven, your present sins are forgiven. Even your future sins, when you show them in light of the cross, are forgiven. He says, having forgiven, you know, this is what people are afraid of. And that's why it's called amazing grace. It is too good to be true. We can't, you know, because as men we feel like Charlie, my future sins should be punished. How many people think that? How many people feel like Charlie? I've done some things and I deserve it. That's human thinking in the eyes of God, having forgiven all your trespasses. All your trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements, he wiped them against us, which was contrary to us. He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross, and that's what the cross represents. He nailed all the things, all the records of your wrongdoings in the past, all your sins. Bible says he nailed it to that cross. And that's why I'm saying that the cross is central to Christianity. Anything you take, put it in light of the cross. Ah, put it in light. If you want to interpret anything outside the cross, then you will now have all these things that one day when the trumpet blows, you know, would you go? Would you also not go? Your sins are forgiven. You are a justified man or woman. Hey, hallelujah. You have been reconciled with him already. Wow. Then he says in the verse 15, having disarmed, there is no arm again. Having disarmed principalities and powers, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. Wow. So he said, Let no man judge you in food. Let no man judge you. Hey, hallelujah. He has made a public spectacle of them. Don't live your life in fear. My auntie will kill me. My uncle will kill me. You can't announce good things. You can't even be happy in this life because you are afraid. He said, There's some altar you must go and uproot in your hometown. In light of the cross, he has triumphed over all of them. He has made a public spectacle. We are not there. Having disarmed all principalities, unless you think his job was not well done, having disarmed all powers and principalities, triumphing over them. There is no altar in any village anywhere that you should be scared of. He who watches over Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps. He said, having disarmed all principalities, not even witches, principalities, principalities, principalities, then what live your life fully, knowing that Jesus, through that cross, accomplished for you disarming principalities. No witch can kill you if it's not your time. If it is time, we would go home. Oh, hallelujah! If it is time we would go home, no sickness, no disease, no medical diagnosis can take you out. He disarmed all of them. Bible says, by his stripes we were healed, even sickness, disease, principalities, altars in your father's house, whatever it may be against you. Look at it in light of the cross. Bible said he nailed it to the cross, he wiped out all the requirements against us, all the handwritings, and he made a public spectacle of them. From today, don't fear. I remember one day my sister went to her shop and then she saw some a woman's pad, you know, with the blood in it, put in front of the shop and some powder and all that. And then my sister said she's going to call a pastor. Don't call me. Walk, open the shop, buy Kenke, it's there. No principality. If they could have done it, they would have done it already. I'm saying now live your life in light of the cross. I was home then. I went to the shop, but then I started my ministry small, small at Lagon. I went, I opened the padlock. I said, if you go, you'll be paralyzed. Jesus never died, the cross never happened. He never made a public spectacle of witches and witchcraft and those things. Principalities were made ashamed. I pray for you that you will never become a bondage, someone in bondage of fear. You will never live in fear again. Because the cross did it all. The cross did it. The cross, ah, the cross, the cross, having disarmed principalities and powers, he made a public spectacle of them. Oh, how I love that cross. Where the dearest and the best. Where the dearest. He is the darling of heaven. He's the morning star. When John the Revelator saw him, he said, I was without breath. Bible said that his voice is like that of many waters, like thunders. His appearance was that of the sun in his full brightness. Bible said that he had a golden sash around his waist. The beauty of heaven. Ah, the darling of heaven. The dearest and the best was given. On that cross, God didn't give us inferior goods. The question is no longer what God can do for us. He has already shown us. The question today is what you will do for God. It's what you would give to God. If you are going to give God anything, it should be your dearest. It should be your best. Because on that cross, the best gift was given. He didn't give us inferior goods. Bible said that, oh, how I love that cross. Where the dearest and the best. See, those of you who want an iPhone and you have not yet gotten some. Those of you who want a house, whatever it is that you want as a gift, what it, whatever it is that you want as a gift, look at what God gave you. Bible said that if he could give us his son, why how would he not with him also give us all things? He says that look at what I gave you. If I could give you my son, is it iPad I can't give you? Is he a relationship I can't give you? Is it marriage that I can't give you? Is he a child that I can't give you? Is it money that I can't give you? If I could give you Jesus, why would he not with him also give us all things today? When you look at the cross, it should be an assurance for you that if God could give me that, oh hallelujah! If God could give me that, is it exams he can't give me?

SPEAKER_02 37:49

Is he a pyramid that he can't give me?

SPEAKER_01 37:57

If you forget everything I preach, go to your room with this scripture, Romans chapter 8, verse 31. Romans chapter 8, verse 31 and 32. He says that what then shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32 is where I'm coming to. It says that he who did not spare his own son but delivered him up for us, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? This Easter. When you look at the cross, remember God telling you that listen, if I could give you Jesus, is he a mobile phone I can't give you? Is he a job I can't give you? Is he a future I can't give you? Is he a good marriage I can't give you? Is he a land I can't give you? Is he a property I can't give you? Is he a peaceful life I can't give you? If he delivered the son for us, how shall he not with him also freely, freely give us all things? Whatever you are looking for is available and it's for free. Whatever you are looking for, your family, Mr. Nyan, whatever you are looking for, your wife, whatever you are looking for in your career, what anointing you are looking for, whatever ministry you are looking for, God is telling you that if I can give you Jesus, I can give you a worldwide ministry, if I can give you Jesus, I can give you money, if I can give you Jesus, I can heal your body, I can give you healing, I can give you prosperity, I can give you increase. How shall he not also with him freely give us all things? On Good Friday, wake up excited, knowing that if he could give me Jesus, if he could give me Jesus, if he could give me the star of heaven, if he could give me the morning star, if he could give me the brightness of heaven, if he could give me the dearest and the best, how shall he not with him also give us a look?