He didn't keep quiet. He brought his separation to God. Everything. No matter what's
separating you, you need to bring it to God.
Especially your sin. Especially your guilt. Especially your shame.
Especially your failures. Your cold. Whatever it is. Don't keep it. Maybe you think God
promised you some ... Some of you people say God promised you something.
Didn't happen. And you've had a wall between God and you. Or you've been confused,
or you've been hurt or things happen in your life and you say, why God? Why?
And you're letting it separate you. You're letting it be a wall. Where it's not where it was before.
Where ... there's no peace.
Maybe you feel he forsook you. Bring it to him! Be honest to God whatever it is.
Bring it to God. He said, the Hebrew word, lama. Do you know what lama means? Lama means
why? He doesn't mean you're gonna understand everything. We have 'whys'
in our life. Lama? But bring it to God. And it doesn't mean you're gonna understand
everything that happens in this life. You don't have to. But it says, but God will
give, will give you more than that. It says pour out your heart like waters
to the Lord. Come as you are. You feel like you can't talk to God. Well talk to God
about that. I can't approach God. Well okay, approach God
and tell him you can't approach him. You feel distant. Bring it near to God.
Only then can you find peace, shalom, in all things, it says.
Messiah. Why have you forsaken me? Now he's saying it and he's God.
... think about that. He's God, saying, my God why have you forsaken me?
Why? So that even when we cry out, we say God, where are you? God is crying out with
us and saying, where are you God? And he's right there. And even then he says, my God.
Even though he's saying, you've forsaken me, why? He's saying, you're still my God.
Next key. He looks down. He sees Yochanan, John, and his mother Miriam, Mary and
he says, woman behold your son. And he says, you John, behold Your Mother.
Now some denominations teach that this means we are all to call Miriam, Mary our mother.
But by that logic we just as well have to call John our son. What's this about?
He's gonna be gone. He's gonna be gone. And so he's gonna enter the Sabbath.
He's gonna be with God. What is he doing on the cross? He's finishing up
the unfinished business. Often the very thing missing for you to have peace in your
life is to finish what is unfinished. If you wrong somebody, make it right.
You stole. Give it back. Maybe there's something you need to ask somebody,
someone's forgiveness. Ask them. Or it's an unfinished thing in your life and
it's gonna keep. You you may not even see how it is, but its going to. Maybe you need
to apologize. Apologize. Make it right. For to bless them, but to bless you too,
so you have peace. Maybe the wrong is you never expressed love to somebody.
Express love to that person. Maybe you, you just were mean to somebody. You were never,
you were never kind to somebody. Maybe a relative. Maybe somebody else.
Ask forgiveness. Be, make it right now. Bless them. Messiah's words on the cross
are part of his entering the Shabbat, the Sabbath. I don't know about you, but when I leave for
a vacation the hardest thing is, it takes so much work to finish up, to be able to go.
You have to tie up all these things and only then can you go. But you have
to do it. You have to work at finishing up or you can't be released. You have to do
a lot of delegating. If you want to enter God's rest you have to do that.
You ever leave your house and you have a feeling there 's something, I forgot something.
I don't know what it is. Forgot something. You know I left this machine on, or something,
you know. Maybe ... you know when you can't think of other things because
it's distracting you. Even when you pray because you're not sure ... Well that's
the way it is with God ... You can be distracted ...
Maybe there are things, not just today but in your past, maybe in your your whole life,
there's unfinished business, goes back to your childhood and you never resolved it.
You never got closure. You never ... with the people, or with yourself, or
with God. That's gonna hinder you until you get closure with God. You want peace?
Resolve it. You've got an issue what people did to you. You're gonna have to deal with it.
Because you can't be carrying around that for the rest of your life. One way
or the other, deal with it. And the fact, it's a fact that simply no matter what
was done to you God could have given you hell but he gave you heaven.
That's enough to forget the whole issue. That's enough. That's enough too. Say goodbye.
Deal with it. You can't move on until you bless .You know, some people leave,
you know one place. They go to the next. And they're always cursing, always,
they're always complaining. They're always saying this one did this.
They're a victim. They go from place to place. Or in the Lord, they go from church
to church. There's no peace. You know the thing is, if you don't bless where you've
been you're not going to bless where you're going. You're not gonna be blessed where
you're going, you understand. If you want to be blessed where you're going,
bless where you've been. And ... that means your past. And even if, well you know, but
it wasn't a blessed past. It was not blessed. I had this, I had ... okay. But God
promised to work it for good. It's not a blessed past. Okay. Bless it and it'll be
a blessed past. If you want to be blessed where you're going, bless where you've been.
What else did he do? What other key? He said, Luke 23, verse 34, he said,
Father, forgive them. They don't know what they're doing. Here he's dying,
bleeding to death, probably suffocating. They kill him wrongfully. They hate him.
They mock him. Even in his death they are abusing him. And what does he do instead
of thinking about all his pain? He's thinking of them. He's entering
the Sabbath teaching us, how do you enter the peace of God in your life. How do you
enter that place of peace in your life? You forgive. You can't have peace without it.
Some of you have not done it. Now I'm not talking about asking forgiveness.
I'm talking about giving forgiveness. And you're holding it. Self pity. Holding it.
Bitterness. You'll never find peace until you forgive.
Those who are the most unforgiving are the most lacking of peace. Shabbat.
The Sabbath. What's our faith about? He's forgiving those who crucified Him.
If he could do that, how much more can you forgive the person who wasn't nice to you?
You might say, they're wrong. And you might be right. But you still have
to forgive them. Even if they're ... He was right. They were wrong. But he still
forgave them, prayed for them. Take some action of forgiveness. Whatever it is.
You want healing? You have to release it.