He Did This For You… (The Truth About Good Friday)

He was beaten, mocked, and crucified… so why do we call it Good Friday?

In this episode of the Fearless Queens Podcast, we break down the truth about Jesus’ sacrifice, what really happened on the cross, and why it matters for your life today.

This isn’t just a story — this is personal.

If you’ve ever wondered:
• Would Jesus really do that for me?
• Why did He have to die?
• Is any of this actually real?

This episode will meet you right where you are.

Friday is good… because Sunday is coming.

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📖 Scriptures referenced:
Isaiah 53
Psalm 22
Zechariah 12:10
Luke 23
John 19
Matthew 12:40
Exodus 12
Daniel 9:26

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Opening
00:32 Welcome + Why Good Friday Matters
02:10 Old Testament Prophecy (Isaiah 53)
05:00 The Reality of the Cross
08:45 Did This Really Happen?
11:30 The Lamb + Passover Connection
14:30 “My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?”
17:20 The Crucifixion (Luke 23 / John 19)
21:00 Betrayal, Judas, and Purpose
24:30 The Two Criminals on the Cross
27:30 What This Means for You
30:15 Invitation + Surrender
32:32 Closing

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

As the nails went in and the sky went dark, the redemption of the world was on his heart. Friday's good because Sunday's coming. And he breathed his last and he bowed his head, and the Son of God and man was dead, with bloody hands, tears on their face. They laid him down inside the grave. But God, that wasn't the end.

SPEAKER_00 0:19

Hello and welcome to another amazing, fearless Good Friday. Yeah. I am one of your hosts, Tina. And I'm Sarah. Today is a special Friday.

SPEAKER_01 0:29

The best Friday. It's Good Friday. You might be off work today, you might not have school today, you might be going to church tonight or this evening, whatever it may be. Or maybe you're like, I just know I get a day off. Why do I get a day off? It's just Good Friday. Um, we're gonna tap in today of why it is called Good Friday and what the meaning behind it is and why it's even good, because so much bad sorrow sadness happened that this day.

SPEAKER_00 0:58

And you may be hearing this and you may think you already know all about Good Friday, but I promise you the Lord is gonna teach you some new things today. So stick with us. It's quick, it's simple, and it will be powerful for you to go into your day. Hopefully, you watch this bright and early because the early bird gets the worm and you eat the frog real early and fully rely on God in this. And so here we go. We're gonna start.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

Let's start with um the prophesying of what Good Friday was going to be before Jesus ever came on the scene. And Tina, you have our Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:33

I mean, all throughout the Old Testament, the whole Bible leads to Jesus. Yes, you can find every single scripture in one way will lead to Jesus coming back and saving us. But we're gonna go first to Isaiah 53. 53, 5. He was pierced for our transgressions, and by his wounds we are healed. Do you want to touch on that a little bit? Because I know you are really good at explaining that.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

Uh, his wounds, we are healed. So when we talk about what happens to Christ on the cross on Good Friday, it's he is pierced, he is beaten, he is mocked, he is betrayed, he is so beaten up and flogged that you can't even recognize this human being. You just know that he's a piece of flesh hanging on a cross. And that is supposed to be us. It says that he died for our transgressions, our iniquities, so your shame, your guilt, your burdens, your sins, your yuck, your betrayals and your all of the stuff that we carry God, Jesus, God, the Holy Spirit, through in Jesus, the flesh that is God, died for you and for me and for Tina and all who will believe that Jesus Christ died and rose from the dead and is the son of God.

SPEAKER_00 3:06

So when you hear this story, you're thinking maybe a couple things. One could be did this really happen, but is this like really a real true story? But if you are legitimately in your heart of hearts questioning that, I'm gonna challenge you to open up and read a case for Christ because it breaks down specific time frames and things telling how it is actually a true story.

SPEAKER_01 3:36

Yeah, there's so much evidence that, yes, you might not people may not believe that Jesus is God, but there's no doubt about it in any history guru buff person that Jesus wasn't a living, breathing human being who died a Roman's death, a crucifixion.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

And then on the other side of the equation, you could be thinking there's no way he would do that for me. But he did it for you. Even if you've ran away, even if you're far away or super close, no matter where you are, yes, he in fact did it for you. And you can also find scripture in that. Yes. So Isaiah 53:7, he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, which there is so much meaning in that. Like he is the lamb of God.

SPEAKER_01 4:22

He is He's the perfect sacrificial lamb. And back in the day, they used to, if you know anything, there's this thing that happened uh in Moses' days, the Passover, and a lamb was sacrificed and blood was put on the doorway. So when the angel of death passed over the Israelites' houses, so their firstborn baby wouldn't die, but all of the Egyptians' firstborn baby would die. And so if you didn't have the the blood of the lamb on the door, your baby will go was gonna die. Essentially, fast forward to Jesus, if you're not covered by the blood of the lamb, you're not getting into heaven.

SPEAKER_00 4:59

Yeah, and sacrifices were very much old testament anyway, and it was, it had to be a perfect, a perfect lamb, perfect white. So then we're gonna go to Psalm 22. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Which is he was on the cross, and we touched a little bit last week about grief and how it might feel like my God, my God, why am I going through this? Jesus knows He is the understanding of your weeping and your pain.

SPEAKER_01 5:35

Yes, God is close to the brokenhearted. So even though Jesus didn't feel God, I mean, he was removed from God's presence because he was carrying all of the sin of the world, and God cannot be around sin. He he's perfect, he's holy, he is the greatest light that you can't even fathom. So for such darkness, like they can't can't exist. So the reason why Jesus did that is because I mean you think of a cross and somebody hung on there, it's a bridge between one side and the other, and the bridge is Jesus.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

Yeah. Yeah, I was there for a minute. So then Psalm 22, verse 16 through 18. They pierce my hands and my feet, they divide my garments among them. This is in Psalm. This is before Jesus was ever here on earth as our brother. And like the detail, the intricacy of the Bible and how it relates to Jesus. And we're gonna go to the book of Zechariah, yes, 12 10. They will look on me the ones the one they have pierced again, pierced in the side.

SPEAKER_01 6:50

And read Luke chapter 24 for yourself. It'll go through the entire Good Friday, the Saturday when nothing was happening when it looked like nothing was happening, and then Sunday, and that's why we celebrate Easter. But honestly, Easter is a worldly term. This is Resurrection Sunday, especially if you're a believer. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:08

Um, but let's keep going for Luke 23 is when he comes before Pontius Pilate and then before Herod, and then he's delivered, and then he's crucified.

SPEAKER_01 7:20

And we're talking about the crucifixion. That is Good Friday. It is when Jesus Christ hung on the cross and died for the entire humanity, was, is, and who is to come.

SPEAKER_00 7:31

And this is if you if you haven't fully accepted him or you haven't um given your life to him, this is us telling you now, like, go read Luke 23 and know that he did this for you. And no matter what you've done, no matter where you are, no matter how far gone you are, like he loves you and he's with you and he wants to, he wants you to be saved. And once you hear it, like that's the thing with America, you can hear it every day. We have more opportunities in America to hear this than any other country in the world. There are countries where you would die, you'd get killed, you'd get, you know, beaten, flogged, you know, all the things if you're reading the Bible. So you you're we're a privileged American nation to be able to have this opportunity. So what are you gonna do with it?

SPEAKER_01 8:16

Yeah, and if you we don't this whole other thing, like we want to make sure we stay free. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

Yeah, so come on over.

SPEAKER_01 8:24

Yeah. The book of Exodus 12 is the Passover lamb, which is what I was just talking about with Moses, and then this one I think is really powerful.

SPEAKER_00 8:34

Just I love the book of Daniel, I think his whole story is amazing. What he did, how much he loved the Lord, how much he turned away from, how much he was committed. And in the book of Daniel 926, it says the anointed one will be cut off. Like it's telling us what's going to happen.

SPEAKER_01 8:54

God literally, God could not be where Jesus was. Like God had to turn away so the promise could be fulfilled. And Jesus gave his life. Like he the Bible says he took his last breath and like like gave it his spirit up to heaven, to God. It wasn't man didn't take him. Yeah, it looks like it, but he willingly did all of these things because he holds the power of life and death in his hands.

SPEAKER_00 9:26

Yeah, absolutely. So that's where in the old testament, just a couple, a couple scriptures that we wanted to share leading to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, which is today, it's happening today. I challenge you to take a moment to really sit in that and what he did for you because what's coming on Sunday.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

Yes. Um, this is in uh John. This is chapter 19. And I'm just gonna read a little bit to give you um like a visual picture of what's going on in your own brain. This is when Jesus he's betrayed, he's mocked, he's beaten, he's accused before all of that, and then he dies. And when he's on the cross, this is 19 uh in John verse 17. The soldiers took charge of Jesus carrying his own cross. Jesus went out to a place called the place of the skull. In the Jewish language, this place was called Golgotha. Golgotha. Oh, right, and they nailed Jesus to the cross. So, right here, we're seeing in the New Testament what's being fulfilled in the Old Testament, because we just said, we just read that for you guys. It says there they nailed Jesus to the cross, and they also put two other men on the cross. This is important because we're gonna get to this, yep, and one on each side of Jesus with Jesus in the middle, and they were both criminals, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:55

Like murdered people.

SPEAKER_01 10:57

So, Romans, this is how they killed people who did disobeyed the Roman law and who were criminals and tried to do anything against the Romans. And so you gotta read your Bible because there's a lot to this of like why Jesus's own people wanted him dead. They were Pharisees, they like the Jews killed Jesus, okay? And Jesus is a Jew. Um, you gotta read your Bible for all that. We're sticking with Good Friday. So it says Pilate, which is the person in charge back in the day um of the Roman people. And it says Pilate wrote a sign and put it on the cross, and it read Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. And what's crazy is people have seen this and it is a cross. A lot of times when they were crucifying people, it looked like a T, but Jesus's did look different because he had that sign, and it was in three different languages. So when people walked by, they knew that this was the King of the Jews.

SPEAKER_00 11:58

And the crazy part about Pontius is he Pontius Pilate. Yeah, he had, I believe, I don't know if it says it in the Bible, but you have to fact check me for yourself. I think he felt guilty because he knew that Jesus had done nothing wrong. He did, but he had to go with like the herd mentality, which we've taught we talked about a little bit in the last episode of just doing what everyone around you is doing. We've talked about you become like the people you surround yourself with, even though he was the leader, he was doing what basically everyone was telling him to do.

SPEAKER_01 12:29

What's crazy awesome about God though is in all of this, he is using what the enemy meant for evil and turning it for good. Like in the midst of all the heavy things that are going on, like Judas had to betray Jesus. And if because Jesus was not tempted by anything else in this world, what happened to him was heartbreak. Somebody else got to him who was very close to him. So it was a heartbreak hurt that got Jesus to the cross. He was betrayed by one of his own who saw miracles, who walked with him, who did life with him for three years, who was so trusted that he was trusted with the money bag. And he was stealing from the money bag. Like where your where your heart lies, like where your treasure is, there you will be. Yeah. And your heart, like, money isn't the root of all evil. It's the love of money. I mean, Satan used Judas to get to Jesus.

SPEAKER_00 13:29

And to the last moment, what did you say that Judah that the way that you broke down how Jesus responded to Judas?

SPEAKER_01 13:37

This is all, you know, Pastor Jerry Flowers. He broke it down very well. He's the pastor of uh Time of Celebration Church. Because in the in the whole process of Jesus getting to the cross, the betrayer the betrayed happened. And Jesus first says, Go what you've what go do what you are here to do, like betrayer. And then it says something along the lines of like, okay, friend, or whatever. Like there's two different things, and it's the beginning of like, my betrayer is here, and then it's welcome, friend. Like, that's what Judas is saying. And read your Bible, like, there's two things. One's a betrayer on Thursday night, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:16

When they're at the last supper, he says, Go betrayer, do what you were.

SPEAKER_01 14:19

Yes, and then friend, it's like greetings, friend, or do what you needed to do, friend. Like, if we were there, we'd be like, You snake, you liar, you cheater. We wouldn't be calling him a friend. And then there's um a lot of Hebrew and Greek in that of what friend means, and it's a pusher. What it is one of them, and a pusher is God used G or I'm sorry, God used Judas and God used Pontius Pilate to put Jesus to his agenda to save humanity. Yeah, they were being used by the enemy, but God was using what they were doing to push his kingdom agenda out.

SPEAKER_00 15:02

Oh, that's so good. That's so good because there's so many times you're like, why am I going through this? Why did this happen? Why is this person treating me like this, or why, whatever it is? And it's like there's always God turning it around for good. Yes. God, like, even with the story of Job, like God knew, like the dead the devil didn't have rights to Job until God said, Go, go to my servant Job. He will not deny me. And even in that story of Job, he realized like his faith is unshakable.

SPEAKER_01 15:36

And that's that is the purpose of this podcast is to strengthen your faith, have unshakable faith when things happen. One, that you're not alone and that you're not crazy, and that this is hard. We're meant to do life together. And sometimes you do need to like step back and be with the Lord. Even Jesus strayed away from the crowd after he was with people, peopling all day long. Like, you gotta go recharge with the Lord. Um, but all to say is there's so much in Good Friday that leads up to and what God uses, what the enemy was like, ha ha, got you. Like he didn't know, he doesn't know what's coming. I mean, now he knows what his end is. Like he knows that he's gonna be thrown in the lake of fire and all the stuff. Satan's trying to do what he can with the time he has now. What if we did what we could with the time we had now?

SPEAKER_00 16:29

Ah so thinking about Pontius Pilate, how, and then about how God uses it for good and he was the pusher. Like he wrote on the top of the cross, King of the Jews. And like they're like, don't put that on there. And then what I've written, I've written it. It's almost like that was um Pontius Pilate's like final blessing to Jesus Christ. Like he is good, he is King of the Jews, not even realizing what he was doing.

SPEAKER_01 17:01

He washed if you've ever seen the passion of the Christ, I mean you see that you he washed his hands with this. Like I am turning him away to you, yeah, but I'm not a part of this. Yeah. Um and in Matthew, it's another foreshadowing of what happened in the Old Testament and that they're saying in the New Testament of what happens to Jesus. If you've ever heard about Jonah and the whale, uh, this is Matthew 12, verse 40. Jonah was in the stomach of the big fish for three days and three nights, in the same way the son of man, Jesus, will be in the grave three days and three nights, because Good Friday, we call it good because we know what happens on Sunday. But could you imagine if you were Mary and the disciples and all the people that just put Jesus on the cross? They had all of the Old Testament, but they didn't understand what it was saying. And then they they were people living in real time watching these come to life. Of what do you mean the Son of Man will be in the grave three days and nights and all these things? He died and was pierced for my transgressions and iniquities. And then it all makes sense on Sunday. But Saturday I couldn't have imagined, like Jesus is dead, there's no hope for the world, we crucified the Messiah. And then Sunday happens, and we're sticking to Good Friday because Sunday isn't there yet. Um, but there is a song called Sunday's Coming by Phil Wickham. He's a Christian artist, and there's just a verse that I think is worth it's each one is what happened that day. So so we let those soldiers take them in. He let them.

SPEAKER_00 18:42

Oh, I just got the chill.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

He let them because God is sovereign, he is good, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, three and one. It's hard to wrap your brain around, but that's why we're human and it's not up to us to figure it out.

SPEAKER_00 18:58

You know, in the song, as you continue, said he let them. And then also when he talks about the two murders on the cross, and it was like, if you are su you know, if you're king of kings and lord of lords, like get us down from here. If you are who you say you are.

SPEAKER_01 19:16

They were mocking him. One was mocking him of like, okay, get us down, save yourself, and the other one's like, dude, he did nothing wrong.

SPEAKER_00 19:25

Yeah. Why are you yelling at him?

SPEAKER_01 19:27

Like, if he's real, like, okay, take me with you when you reach paradise, when you reach your kingdom, because you you must be something special for them to want to kill you when you didn't do anything wrong. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:38

One realized it, one didn't, but that let them just made me think of that.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

Yes. Um, the next part of the lyric is as his friend betrayed him with a kiss. You also don't kiss people that you don't know or you don't like. A kiss is something very intimate between a fri, like you kiss your mom, you kiss your your sister on the cheek, like you kiss your friend, you kiss somebody that's close to you. So the fact that his betrayer was a friend who decided to betray him with a kiss, there's so much in that. Like how close Judas really was. And you can still be so close to Jesus and do Jesus' work and still not be saved, still not know him.

unknown 20:21

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:22

We don't want to be like Judas, okay?

SPEAKER_00 20:24

No, but I think there are times we've all been like yes. Isn't there a song out about that?

SPEAKER_01 20:30

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 20:31

By Josiah.

SPEAKER_01 20:32

Yes. Um, that's a different topic, different day, because we also do need a Judas in our life to propel us to push us into God's sovereign will for our lives.

unknown 20:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:41

Uh, and we never know why. Anywho, okay, let's get back to the song. So it says, there they're before the mocking crowd, like a lamb to the slaughter, didn't make a sound. Like this is all scripture that you can have. There's words and songs that you're like singing scripture over yourself to remind you of what God has done for you on this day. Says then he carried that cross to Calvary and he shed his blood to set us free. As the nails went in and the sky went dark, the redemption of the world was on his heart. Friday's good because Sunday's coming. And he breathed his last and he bowed his head, and the Son of God and man was dead with bloody hands, tears on their face. They laid him down inside the grave. But God, that wasn't the end. And that's where Saturday seems dark and there's no hope, and then Sunday happens and there's that tomb is empty. And you get the decision today if you've never believed in the Lord before and you're hearing this for the first time, or maybe you've heard it a thousand times and you've seen a different glimpse of like what God has done for you, what Jesus is, what Good Friday is all about.

SPEAKER_00 21:50

Even what He's done in the lives of those around you. Yes, it's undeniable. I mean, just even if you are close or you Know me andor Sarah. There's friends who know us after we met Jesus, and then there's family or friends that know us before we met Jesus. And it's undeniable that our lives have changed dramatically because he is in our hearts. And so there has to be a part of you, even if you're either ignoring, denying, don't want to have anything to do with it. Maybe you're afraid of what is going to happen after you come to Jesus. Maybe there's this like, oh, I have to do this, this, this, and this, either before I come to him or when I come to him, but that's not how it works. Come as you are. Come as you are. And then he, you know, he will change your heart. He will change your desires. You know, I'm I'd be praying for my son's desire over the things he listens to and the things he watches. Like I, he's at an age now where I can't control that anymore. And so I have to allow God to work in and through him. And the same thing for you. If you're like, well, I don't want to quit drinking, I don't want to quit, you know, eating sugar, I don't want to, whatever your thing is. Like, you don't have to come to Jesus, move out with your boyfriend that you're living with because you know it's wrong, and then, you know, pray for 17 hours every day. Like, God will lead you and guide you and give you the wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of you. And I pray you have good, loving, beautiful sisters and brothers in Christ who will walk alongside of you, not condemn you, but love you to Jesus. And that's what I believe the Friday to Sunday is showing you.

SPEAKER_01 23:34

Yeah, that there's hope in the darkest of days. Could you imagine being Mary, his mom, like watching her son be beaten to death and then hung on a cross? Like the humiliation.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

Wasn't he naked on the cross?

SPEAKER_01 23:49

Yeah, I mean, only his only like one garment was there, like protecting his private part, you know, and we weren't there. Like, I don't know what was shown and what wasn't, you know. He was mocked and ridiculed. And the thing is, is when you believe to Jesus, believe in Jesus, like let's use the two people on each side. One came to the end of himself, and the other one is still so prideful that he's like, God, if you're real, like just take me down now. Pride is in the way of the relationship of what God is Jesus is literally doing on the cross. It's a hardened heart. And the other one is seeing, like, hey, I didn't this guy didn't do anything wrong, and he's dying the death I deserve, which is what it means to pick up your cross. You are picking up the cross that Jesus already died on for you, and you're picking it up and following him, following what he wants for your life, not doing what you've always done because it's gotten you to the end of yourself. When you come to the end of yourself, that is when Jesus can do all that he can through you, because in his in your weakness, he is strong.

SPEAKER_00 24:57

And that's what the other um man on the cross did. We indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong. And he said, Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom. And he said to him, Truly I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise. So the man basically was pleaing and confessing, and he was saved. The quickest salvation ever recorded in the Bible was he died, he was on the cross, going to die, going to go to hell, and he looked and his heart was changed towards God, towards Jesus, and he's like, Remember me. That was all he had to say was, Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

And the Lord said, He had belief in Jesus and what Jesus was doing in that moment when he knew he deserved it and Jesus didn't.

SPEAKER_00 25:50

And that's all you need. You need confession and faith.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

You need yes, that is salvation. Believe that you are a sinner who needs a savior because everything that you've ever done and will do and are going to do, you're gonna suck along the way. We are human beings who have a sinful nature. And God, when you pick up your cross and follow him, it leads to new ways and new life and new things and new habits. So you end up starting to sin less. But essentially, Good Friday, brother, sister, pick up your cross, be grateful that God died for you because you're the one that should have been on the cross. We are the other two people. But what two people on the side of God Jesus do you want to be? The one who was too prideful to say that he did anything wrong and was mocking God, the only person that can save him? Or are you gonna have the revelation of like, you know what? I deserve this. But if he says who he says he is and that there is a kingdom that he is bringing down because he doesn't deserve this, and it hurts like a mofo. Like I couldn't imagine. Like, that's what this dude's thinking, probably like ow, like I can't believe this is happening to me. And this dude's innocent and he's just taking it because there's a difference of each three postures of what's going on. You want to be the one that comes to the Lord sooner than later. Surrender, surrender, surrender.

SPEAKER_00 27:13

Yeah, I mean, it's it's about sacrifice, what he did for us so that we could live in redemption and atonement for our sins. And it's a picture of suffering. And, you know, our last episode, if you haven't, if you didn't listen to it, please go back and listen to it. Share it with someone who's going through grief of any kind. But then you come to this episode and it's like, God, Jesus went through all of that for you to bring you to the other side with him in complete union and joy, the joy of the Lord being our strength.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

Because Friday's good because Sunday's coming. So you're believing that what is going on now, the suffering, the sadness, the sorrow, the brokenness of all that happens in this world will be molded and shapened and refined because it's if it's not good, it's not done. Jesus has saved you because we couldn't save ourselves.

SPEAKER_00 28:17

Yeah. And we we continually share new things, but we also share things over and over and over again. Because here's the thing: we're human beings in a human existence living a fleshly life. And we hope that the more you hear the same thing over and over, the more you will realize like, I want to turn to Jesus. You want to turn to the Lord, you want him to change your heart, you want to be the man on the cross who fully surrenders and confesses and has the faith, like Moses, to be able to live in his perfect will. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 29:00

The whole Bible repeats itself over and over and over and over and over and over and over. So if he can repeat himself, we're gonna repeat ourselves. Jesus is king, Jesus died on the cross for your sins and for mine. And it is a good Friday because Sunday's coming.

unknown 29:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:19

Amen, sister. So I pray that you heard this, you received it, you enjoyed it. And because it is such a super short episode, share this with somebody today. Share this with a non-believer, share this with a believer who needs their faith ignited, who's maybe not walking the narrow path. And just remember that, and this is where it's gonna get kind of icky for a hot second here. Remember that every sin that you do that somebody does is another slash on Jesus' body. I remember when I was confessing everything that I did when I came to Christ. He just the Holy Spirit gave, I didn't know it at the time, but when I told people the story, they're like, that was the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gave me this just like knowing that I need to write down, literally right on a piece of paper, every sin that I could ever remember, which is a horrible thing to do. But I was writing at times. And I was writing and I was weeping and I was writing and I was disgusted and all the things. And then what happens is he goes in and he molds and he reshapes and he heals and he strengthens you and he you want to sin less. You don't want to slash him, you don't want another whip on his body. So that's one equation.

SPEAKER_01 30:34

And that comes from love. Yeah, yes, the love that you have for the savior, the revelation of like, wow, this is all me. And I'm the one that put him up there. We all did, we all did. But he, if there was nobody else on the planet, he still died for you.

SPEAKER_00 30:52

And then the other side of the equation is I always think when I have to do really hard things, like challenging things, things either I've never done before, or pushing through, as silly as this sounds, that last 20 seconds in the plank or that push-up or whatever it is, like your body is a temple. It is a gift from the Holy Spirit. When you choose to let him live in you, you choose to make choices in alignment with God. And so when I'm going through those like hard moments, difficult times, in my mind, I remember, I picture him on the cross for me. And I'm like, how can I not push past this limit? How can I not do the hard thing? How can I not be a friend to a brother in Christ? How can I not pray for those who are persecuting me? He did it for me. What how can I not do it for others? So those are just two visuals that I hope you hear, you receive, and you want to be closer to Jesus, not because of anything we've said, but because you've allowed him to change your heart and grow it closer to his perfect role for your life.

SPEAKER_01 31:53

Yes, and when the world's screaming at you, chocolate bunnies and Easter egg hunts, remember the reason why we are um celebrating Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday on this April time in 2026.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

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