Michael McDaniel - "The Power of Darkness" Good Friday Service (April 5, 1985)

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	(upbeat orchestral music)	0:08
Female Speaker	Blessed be the name of the Lord our God.	3:10
Congregation	Who redeems us from sin and death.	3:13
Female Speaker	For us and for the salvation of all,	3:17
	Christ became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.	3:20
Congregation	Blessed be the name of the Lord.	3:26
	(organ music)	3:29
	♪ O sacred Head now wounded ♪	4:13
	♪ With grief and shame weighed down ♪	4:20
	♪ Now scornfully surrounded ♪	4:27
	♪ With thorns Thine only crown ♪	4:34
	♪ How pale Thou art with anguish ♪	4:41
	♪ With sore abuse and scorn ♪	4:48
	♪ How does that visage languish ♪	4:55
	♪ Which once was bright as morn ♪	5:03
	♪ What Thou my Lord has suffered ♪	5:12
	♪ Was all for sinners' gain ♪	5:19
	♪ Mine mine was the transgression ♪	5:26
	♪ But Thine the deadly pain ♪	5:34
	♪ Lo here I fall my Savior ♪	5:41
	♪ 'Tis I deserve Thy place ♪	5:48
	♪ Look on me with Thy favor ♪	5:56
	♪ Assist me with Thy grace ♪	6:03
	♪ What language shall I borrow ♪	6:12
	♪ To thank Thee dearest Friend ♪	6:20
	♪ For this Thy dying sorrow ♪	6:27
	♪ Thy pity without end ♪	6:34
	♪ O make me Thine forever ♪	6:42
	♪ And should I fainting be ♪	6:49
	♪ Lord let me never never ♪	6:57
	♪ Outlive my love to Thee ♪	7:05
Male Speaker	You may be seated.	7:22
	The first lesson is from Isaiah, chapters 52 and 53.	7:28
	Behold, my servant shall prosper.	7:34
	He shall be exalted and lifted up and shall be very high.	7:38
	As many were astonished at him,	7:43
	his appearance was so marred beyond human resemblance	7:46
	and his form beyond that of the sons of men,	7:50
	so shall he startle many nations.	7:54
	Kings shall shut their mouths because of him	7:58
	for that which has not been told them, they shall see.	8:02
	And that which they have not heard, they shall understand.	8:06
	Who has believed what we have heard?	8:12
	And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?	8:15
	For he grew up before him like a young plant	8:20
	and like a root out of dry ground,	8:25
	he had no form or comeliness that we should look at him.	8:27
	And no beauty that we should desire him.	8:31
	He was despised and rejected by men.	8:35
	A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.	8:39
	And as one from whom men hide their faces, he was despised.	8:45
	And we esteemed him not.	8:50
	Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.	8:54
	Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted.	8:59
	But he was wounded for our transgressions,	9:04
	he was bruised for our iniquities.	9:07
	Upon him was the chastisement that made us whole.	9:11
	And with his stripes, we are healed.	9:15
	All we like sheep have gone astray.	9:19
	We have turned every one to his own way.	9:22
	And the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.	9:26
	He was oppressed and he was afflicted.	9:31
	Yet he opened not his mouth.	9:34
	Like a lamb that is led to slaughter	9:37
	and like a sheep that before its shearers is dumb,	9:40
	so he opened not his mouth.	9:43
	By oppression and judgment he was taken away.	9:47
	And as for his generation, who considered	9:50
	that he was cut off out of the land of the living?	9:54
	Stricken for the transgression of my people.	9:58
	And they made his grave with the wicked	10:02
	and with the rich man in his death.	10:05
	Although he had done no violence	10:08
	and there was no deceit in his mouth.	10:10
	Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise him.	10:14
	He has put him to grief.	10:17
	When he makes himself an offering for sin,	10:21
	he shall see his offspring.	10:23
	He shall prolong his days.	10:25
	The will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.	10:28
	He shall see the fruit of the travail	10:32
	of his soul and be satisfied.	10:34
	By his knowledge shall the righteous one,	10:39
	my servant, make many to be accounted righteous.	10:42
	And he shall bear their iniquities.	10:46
	Therefore, I will divide him a portion with the great.	10:50
	And he shall divide the spoil with the strong.	10:53
	Because he poured out his soul to death	10:57
	and was numbered with the transgressors,	11:00
	yet he bore the sin of many	11:03
	and made intercession for the transgressors.	11:06
	Here ends the reading.	11:11
	The passion according to John is from the holy gospel	11:15
	according to Saint John, the 18th and 19th chapters.	11:18
	When Jesus had spoken these words,	11:25
	he went forth with his disciples across the Kidron valley	11:27
	where there was a garden, which he	11:32
	and his disciples entered.	11:33
	Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place;	11:36
	for Jesus often met there with his disciples.	11:40
	So Judas, procuring a band of soldiers	11:44
	and some officers from the chief priests	11:47
	and the Pharisees, went there	11:50
	with lanterns and torches and weapons.	11:52
	Then Jesus, knowing all that was to befall him,	11:56
	came forward and said to them, "Whom do you seek?"	11:59
	They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth."	12:04
	Jesus said to them, "I am he."	12:10
	Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.	12:13
	When Jesus said to them, "I am he,"	12:18
	they drew back and fell to the ground.	12:21
	Again he asked them, "Whom do you seek?"	12:24
	And they said, "Jesus of Nazareth."	12:28
	Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he;	12:32
	"so, if you seek me, let these men go."	12:35
	This was to fulfill the word which he had spoken,	12:40
	"Of those whom thou gavest me I lost not one."	12:43
	Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it	12:49
	and struck the high priest's slave	12:52
	and cut off his right ear.	12:54
	The slave's name was Malchus.	12:57
	Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword into its sheath;	12:59
	"shall I not drink the cup which the Father has given me?"	13:03
	So the band of soldiers and their captain	13:08
	and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him.	13:10
	First they led him to Annas; for he was the father-in-law	13:15
	of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.	13:19
	It was Caiaphas who had given counsel	13:23
	to the Jews that it was expedient	13:25
	that one man should die for the people.	13:27
	Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple.	13:32
	As this disciple was known to the high priest,	13:38
	he entered the court of the high priest along with Jesus,	13:40
	while Peter stood outside at the door.	13:43
	So the other disciple, who was known	13:47
	to the high priest, went out and spoke	13:49
	to the maid who kept the door, and brought Peter in.	13:52
	The maid who kept the door said to Peter,	13:57
	"Are not you also one of this man's disciples?"	14:01
	He said, "I am not."	14:05
	Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire,	14:09
	because it was cold, and they were standing	14:12
	and warming themselves; Peter also was with them,	14:15
	standing and warming himself.	14:19
	The high priest then questioned Jesus	14:24
	about his disciples and his teaching.	14:26
	Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world;	14:29
	"I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple,	14:33
	"where all Jews come together; I have said nothing secretly.	14:36
	"Why do you ask me?	14:42
	"Ask those who have heard me,	14:45
	"what I said to them; they know what I have said."	14:47
	When he had said this, one of the officers standing	14:54
	by struck Jesus with his hand, saying,	14:56
	"Is that how you answer the high priest?"	14:59
	Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken wrongly,	15:02
	"bear witness to the wrong;	15:05
	"but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?"	15:07
	Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.	15:13
	Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself.	15:18
	They said to him, "Are not you also one of his disciples?"	15:22
	He denied it and said, "I am not."	15:27
	One of the servants of the high priest, a kinsman	15:31
	of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked,	15:34
	"Did I not see you in the garden with him?"	15:39
	Peter again denied it; and at once the cock crowed.	15:43
	Then they led Jesus from the house	15:50
	of Caiaphas to the praetorium.	15:52
	It was early.	15:54
	They themselves did not enter the praetorium,	15:56
	so that they might not be defiled,	15:59
	but might eat the passover.	16:02
	So Pilate went out to them and said,	16:05
	"What accusation do you bring against this man?"	16:08
	They answered him, "If this man were not an evildoer,	16:11
	"we would not have handed him over."	16:15
	Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves	16:19
	"and judge him by your own law."	16:21
	The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful	16:25
	"for us to put any man to death."	16:30
	This was to fulfill the word which Jesus had spoken	16:33
	to show by what death he was to die.	16:36
	Pilate entered the praetorium again and called Jesus,	16:42
	and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"	16:45
	Jesus answered, "Do you say this of your own accord,	16:50
	"or did others say it to you about me?"	16:54
	Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Your own nation	16:59
	"and the chief priests have handed you over to me;	17:04
	"what have you done?"	17:07
	Jesus answered, "My kingship is not of this world;	17:10
	"if my kingship were of this world, my servants would fight,	17:14
	"that I might not be handed over to the Jews;	17:17
	"but my kingship is not from the world."	17:20
	Pilate said to him, "So you are a king?"	17:25
	Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king.	17:30
	For this I was born, and for this I have come	17:34
	into the world, to bear witness to the truth.	17:36
	Every one who is of the truth hears my voice."	17:40
	Pilate said to him, "What is truth?"	17:45
	After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again,	17:51
	and told them, "I find no crime in him.	17:54
	But you have a custom that I should release one man	17:59
	for you at the Passover; will you have me release	18:02
	for you the King of the Jews?"	18:05
	They cried out again, "Not this man, but Barabbas!"	18:09
	Now Barabbas was a robber.	18:14
	Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged him.	18:18
	And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns,	18:21
	and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple robe;	18:24
	they came up to him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"	18:30
	and struck him with their hands.	18:35
	Pilate went out again, and said to them,	18:39
	"See, I am bringing him out to you,	18:41
	"that you may know that I find no crime in him."	18:44
	So Jesus came out, wearing the crown	18:49
	of thorns and the purple robe.	18:51
	Pilate said to them, "Behold the man!"	18:55
	When the chief priests and the officers saw him,	18:58
	they cried out, "Crucify him, crucify him!"	19:01
	Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves	19:07
	"and crucify him, for I find no crime in him."	19:09
	The Jews answered him, "We have a law,	19:15
	"and by that law he ought to die,	19:17
	"because he has made himself the Son of God."	19:19
	When Pilate heard these words, he was the more afraid;	19:24
	he entered the praetorium again and said to Jesus,	19:28
	"Where are you from?"	19:32
	But Jesus gave no answer.	19:35
	Pilate therefore said to him, "You will not speak to me?	19:40
	Do you not know that I have power to release you,	19:44
	and the power to crucify you?"	19:47
	Jesus answered him, "You would have no power over me	19:51
	"unless it had been given you from above;	19:54
	"therefore he who delivered me to you has the greater sin."	19:57
	Upon this Pilate sought to release him,	20:04
	but the Jews cried out, "If you release this man,	20:07
	"you are not Caesar's friend; every one	20:10
	"who makes himself a king sets himself against Caesar."	20:13
	When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out	20:19
	and sat down on the judgment seat	20:21
	at a place called The Pavement, and in Hebrew, the Gabbatha.	20:24
	Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover;	20:30
	it was about the sixth hour.	20:33
	He said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"	20:37
	They cried out, "Away with him, away with him, crucify him!"	20:41
	Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?"	20:48
	The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar."	20:53
	Then he handed him over to them to be crucified.	20:58
	So they took Jesus, and he went out,	21:04
	bearing his own cross, to the place called the place	21:06
	of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha.	21:09
	There they crucified him, and with him two others,	21:15
	one on either side, and Jesus between them.	21:19
	Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the cross;	21:24
	it read, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews."	21:28
	Many of the Jews read this title, for the place	21:34
	where Jesus was crucified was near the city;	21:37
	and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.	21:40
	The chief priests of the Jews then said to Pilate,	21:45
	"Do not write, The King of the Jews but,	21:48
	This man said, I am King of the Jews."	21:50
	Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."	21:55
	When the soldiers had crucified him,	22:01
	they took his garments and made four parts,	22:03
	one for each soldier; also his tunic.	22:06
	But the tunic was without seam, woven from top to bottom;	22:10
	so they said to one another, "Let us not tear it,	22:15
	"but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be."	22:18
	This was to fulfill the scripture,	22:23
	They parted my garments among them,	22:25
	and for my clothing they cast lots.	22:27
	So the soldiers did this.	22:30
	But standing by the cross of Jesus	22:36
	were his mother, and his mother's sister,	22:38
	Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.	22:40
	When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple	22:47
	whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother,	22:50
	"Woman, behold, your son!"	22:54
	Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!"	23:01
	And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.	23:07
	After this Jesus, knowing that all was now finished,	23:14
	said, to fulfill the scripture, "I thirst."	23:22
	A bowl full of vinegar stood there;	23:29
	so they put a sponge full of the vinegar	23:32
	on hyssop and held it to his mouth.	23:36
	When Jesus had received the vinegar,	23:43
	he said, "It is finished"; and he bowed his head	23:44
	and gave up his spirit.	23:54
	Here ends the reading of the passion according to John.	23:58
-	[Deep Voiced Male Speaker] To be asked	24:17
	to preach the gospel on this most solemn day of the year,	24:18
	in this most inspiring house of prayer,	24:22
	to people who've come hungry for the word of God	24:27
	is a great privilege.	24:33
	The common task that we have of proclaiming	24:39
	the good news of God in the world,	24:44
	where people have not assembled,	24:49
	as we have here today, hungry to hear the word,	24:50
	is not always so pleasant.	24:56
	Indeed, God found that to be true.	25:00
	Anyone who brings a message,	25:07
	even if it is good news,	25:11
	risks being resented.	25:14
	We become angry with anyone who tells us the truth,	25:19
	if we can't or don't want to hear that truth,	25:25
	and we find all kinds of reasons for mocking,	25:29
	discrediting and hating	25:33
	the one who presumes to give us advice.	25:38
	The whole world is in that sick condition	25:45
	with relation to God.	25:47
	Through Moses and the prophets,	25:51
	indeed, even through some of the great religious leaders	25:54
	of the Far East, we have clearly seen	25:57
	what the structure of creation means.	26:02
	In their disarming and to the skeptical, primitive,	26:07
	simplicity, the ten commandments	26:10
	tell us what God's creation is all about.	26:14
	There is one God.	26:20
	He is truly in touch with us,	26:23
	so we dare not trifle with his name,	26:25
	that is, try to pretend he isn't there.	26:27
	That's what it means to take his name in vain.	26:30
	Remember the Sabbath day.	26:35
	We need a specified time to give him thanks	26:36
	and come together, to receive the power he wants to give us.	26:40
	The love of God is mirrored in our biological	26:48
	and our spiritual parents, so we need to honor those	26:51
	who sacrifice in order to give us life.	26:56
	Indeed, we are not to take life, but to reverence it.	27:03
	We are not to take what belongs to another.	27:10
	We are to use the gift of sex	27:14
	only in the way it was intended,	27:16
	the way it brings joy within the covenant	27:19
	of fidelity and marriage.	27:22
	Telling lies, jealousy, coveting,	27:26
	all that destroys one's soul.	27:32
	Now, that's a very simple statement	27:36
	of what the ten commandments are all about	27:39
	and the ten commandments are a very simple statement	27:43
	of what life is all about.	27:45
	Indeed, as Jesus said, even those simple statements	27:48
	can be made more simple still.	27:51
	Love the Lord your God with all your heart,	27:56
	soul, mind and strength and your neighbor	27:59
	with the same kind of love you have for yourself.	28:03
	The term commandments isn't really appropriate.	28:11
	For God has not issued decrees to keep us in line.	28:15
	Jesus showed us that these are really statements	28:21
	about the way things are.	28:24
	The sabbath was made for man,	28:28
	not man for the sabbath.	28:31
	In other words, these are descriptions	28:35
	of how love unfolds and structures creation.	28:37
	And it is marvelous and when our hearts are well,	28:42
	we can cry, with the Psalmist,	28:47
	oh how I love thy law.	28:50
	How wonderful, in other words, the structure of reality is.	28:55
	But the trouble is our hearts are not well.	29:01
	Most of the people in this world and all of us,	29:06
	most of the time, want to be autonomous.	29:11
	We don't want to know what God's structure is.	29:18
	We wanna shape it the way we want to.	29:21
	We wanna be a law unto ourselves.	29:25
	Now, it was to save us from this kind	29:32
	of folly that God came.	29:34
	The best, the wisest, the strongest person	29:39
	who ever lived was Jesus.	29:44
	In whom God himself fulfilled the structure,	29:48
	the design, the law of the universe.	29:52
	You bet people resented him.	29:58
	He had a message.	30:02
	They killed him for it.	30:05
	But that which lets us know that this was indeed God	30:09
	is the fact that not all of our resentment and hate,	30:15
	not all of it put together could make him waver	30:19
	from his life and message of love.	30:24
	In Jesus, God presumed to tell the world	30:29
	that idolatry, self-centeredness,	30:35
	indifference to one's inner growth,	30:39
	defiance of parents, contempt for life,	30:43
	contempt for property, contempt for purity,	30:48
	contempt for truth and the itch for material possessions,	30:52
	God presumed to tell the world	30:58
	that is self-destructive.	31:02
	And for that blessed message, we put him to death.	31:08
	That he did not block our insanity	31:17
	shows that he was speaking	31:19
	as Saint Paul admonishes everybody to do,	31:21
	he was speaking the truth in love.	31:24
	That is, he so loved the world that he came	31:28
	and suffered rejection and death	31:33
	that we might yield our hearts to such love	31:36
	in action and share his everlasting life.	31:40
	He loved us enough to suffer for us.	31:47
	To put up with our hatred and rejection.	31:50
	And when it was all over, and Easter had come	31:54
	and love was seen to be stronger than death,	31:58
	God did not take revenge on the creatures who rejected him.	32:03
	Instead, he offered an offer still,	32:09
	that broken body, that shed blood,	32:13
	to us.	32:19
	That we might experience his forgiveness,	32:22
	grow in his life, and be saved from our sins forever.	32:25
	Now, that's a glimpse of what Good Friday means.	32:33
	Just a little one, a little window,	32:37
	on the infinitely wonderful love of God.	32:39
	This gospel, this good news of God's gracious love	32:43
	didn't come cheaply and it is costly still today	32:46
	for people in whom the love of God is at work.	32:52
	For the world doesn't want to hear even good news.	32:56
	In our ill health of soul and mind,	33:00
	we prefer the darkness to the light	33:05
	and that isn't at all surprising.	33:08
	For on the night before his crucifixion	33:13
	when he was arrested, Jesus said to those who bound him,	33:15
	"This is your hour and the power of darkness"	33:20
	And we just heard read, it was about the sixth hour	33:27
	and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth.	33:30
	We mustn't read too swiftly past that crucial verse,	33:37
	as though it were incidental.	33:42
	I think it is the central verse of the whole story,	33:45
	for in those dark hours, transactions were accomplished	33:50
	which through all eternity defy our explanation.	33:56
	Think of what happened before the darkness.	34:02
	Jesus forgave those who did him personal harm.	34:07
	Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.	34:11
	He forgave the one who had despised God's will as a thief.	34:15
	Today, you shall be with me in paradise.	34:20
	And he looked out for the one who had given him life	34:23
	in this world, his mother.	34:27
	Then, after the three hours of darkness,	34:30
	all of that is past, the clamor is over,	34:35
	the opposition is exhausted, the turmoil is ended.	34:37
	Humanity has done its last and worst.	34:43
	And what does he say now?	34:48
	Why simply to fulfill revelation, "I thirst."	34:51
	To fulfill creation, "It is finished."	34:56
	And to fulfill God himself, "Father into your hands."	35:02
	Evidently, this darkness was an important	35:12
	passage.	35:18
	It was not an eclipse.	35:20
	Some romantics have said it is nature's sympathy.	35:24
	Well, that's too ridiculous to comment.	35:28
	Others have said it was God's sympathy,	35:33
	and that reveals a lack of understanding	35:37
	of what is going on here.	35:40
	Luke records that Jesus said to those who came	35:45
	to arrest him, "This is your hour	35:49
	"and the power of darkness."	35:53
	You remember back in the beginning of his ministry?	35:58
	He spoke of an hour that was coming.	36:01
	And said we must do the works of him who has sent me	36:04
	while it is day for the night cometh when no one can work.	36:07
	A profound saying.	36:14
	It was a time when his disciples could do no more.	36:18
	They had to stand aside.	36:21
	From the sixth hour until the ninth,	36:28
	there was darkness over the land.	36:30
	We don't know of anything he said in that period.	36:34
	What then was it?	36:39
	I think it was the hour when evil had its last fling.	36:42
	In those hours, we see the Savior in the midst	36:49
	of all that resulted from the action of evil.	36:52
	With wonderful insight, Saint Paul describes the leader	36:56
	of wickedness in this world as the ruler of darkness.	37:01
	Saint John said of Jesus, in him was life and the life	37:09
	was the light of people, the light shines in darkness	37:13
	and the darkness has not overcome it.	37:17
	Here we are brought face-to-face with the purpose	37:22
	of self-centeredness, of evil.	37:26
	It is to extinguish the light.	37:29
	Jesus was the true light that lighteth every man	37:34
	coming into the world, but the purpose	37:38
	of evil is to snuff out that light.	37:41
	In these three hours of darkness then,	37:46
	all the force of evil was brought to bear on the Son of God.	37:50
	All the unutterable intent and purpose	37:56
	of evil was wrapped around him	37:58
	in a darkness beyond our understanding.	38:01
	Now we see more clearly what those great texts mean.	38:07
	The people which sat in darkness have seen a great light.	38:11
	Or this one, if thine eye be evil,	38:15
	thy whole body shall be full of darkness.	38:18
	Or this one, the sons of the kingdom	38:22
	shall be cast forth into the outer darkness.	38:24
	The symbol of death.	38:30
	Oh, I don't know what happened then any more than you do.	38:35
	But ringing in the ears of Jesus	38:40
	must've been that mocking sneer,	38:42
	"He saved others, he can't save himself."	38:44
	And their laughter.	38:49
	"Let him come down from the cross."	38:50
	Why didn't he?	38:55
	Because he is God and God is love.	38:58
	And love is never satisfied with destroying anything.	39:02
	Not even sinners.	39:09
	Love is satisfied only with restoration.	39:12
	Could he find no other way?	39:17
	Couldn't God simply say, "Forget it."	39:20
	Our conscience cries for cleansing.	39:28
	To have forgiveness, there must be	39:32
	something greater than our sin.	39:34
	And what happened on the cross was indeed	39:38
	greater than all the world's sin.	39:40
	When we come to the cross, we find our hearts healed.	39:47
	For the struggle was not to save himself.	39:51
	Because he saved others, he did not save himself.	39:56
	And when that unspeakable horror of darkness ended,	40:02
	he quoted the Psalmist, "My God, my God,	40:07
	"why hast thou forsaken me?"	40:13
	This is what tells us what happened in that outer darkness.	40:18
	He wrestled alone.	40:22
	Certainly his hands were nailed.	40:24
	But here is testimony that life is won or lost	40:28
	in that realm of the spirit,	40:31
	call it mind, will, soul, whatever you wish.	40:33
	All the legions of hell converged on that little hill.	40:38
	And to Jesus, this onslaught must've	40:43
	been an attack in every way.	40:47
	Temptations unknown to you and me.	40:49
	Shameful and frightening.	40:54
	This was the death by which he won the salvation	40:56
	of mankind, not the physical death.	41:00
	The death that saves us was not	41:03
	the final yielding of his last breath,	41:05
	but the infinite mystery of these three hours.	41:10
	And when they were passed, he could say,	41:15
	"It is finished."	41:19
	In all that remains, we hear not another word	41:23
	from his enemies.	41:26
	He had triumphed over them all.	41:29
	Henceforth, there would be the word of a centurion,	41:34
	crowds beating their breasts.	41:38
	A body laid gently to rest.	41:42
	Whatever happened in that deep darkness,	41:47
	in that dread encounter, it was accomplished.	41:51
	Whatever his being forsaken to face satan	41:58
	alone might mean, it was finished.	42:00
	He did not come down as they jeered up at him.	42:06
	Only after saving us did he at last submit himself	42:11
	to the end and commend his spirit to God.	42:16
	And out of that darkness came the rays of a dawn	42:22
	that for all the death throes of evil	42:29
	will not be held back,	42:32
	a light that will not be put out,	42:35
	from the sixth to the ninth hour,	42:41
	there was a darkness over the land.	42:45
	From that darkness has come pardon,	42:52
	purity, peace, power,	42:56
	life everlasting.	43:01
	Thank God.	43:04
	Amen.	43:09
	(organ music)	43:17
	(congregational singing organ music too loud to hear words)	44:09
	(sad sounding orchestral music)	47:36

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Michael McDaniel - "The Power of Darkness" Good Friday Service (April 5, 1985)

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Sermon start time: 24:17. Sermon end time: 43:11.
The salvation Jesus won for us on the cross was not accomplished by his physical death, but the three hours of darkness in which his spirit wrestled with all the temptations of hell. At the end of that wrestling, Jesus could say, “It is finished,” and we could come to the cross and find healing for our hearts. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “Our conscience cries for cleansing. To have forgiveness, there must be something greater than our sin. And what happened on the cross was indeed greater than all the world’s sin.”

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April 5, 1985

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