This message was quoted from Dr. R. Schuller. A pretty good and touching sermon.
What Jesus taught us:基督受難教導我們
He taught us number one: any sin can be forgiven. You can forgive them who killed this Jesus and any sin is potentially forgivable. 任何罪都能獲得赦免,連殺害耶穌的人都可獲得赦免
Second thing He taught us – that we’re saved by grace, not through works. 我們得救乃是本乎恩典,而非行為
Third point Jesus made was: you belong to a family and through the worst of times just remember this: we all go through suffering and through some rejections but remember this: the family will always stay with you.
Fourth point He made was: faith can survive the worst tragedy. When He said, ‘My God, my God, why have You forsaken Me?’ No tragedy was ever experienced by any human being that Christ experienced on the cross when He said, ‘God abandoned me.’ But He did not abandon His faith. He still said, ‘My God, My God, My God!’ Didn’t become an atheist. His faith survived His worst tragedy. Wow! 信心保守你度過最慘痛的時刻. 沒有任何痛苦大於基督在十架上暫時遭神離棄的經歷.但祂依然信靠神,祂依然呼喊'我的神,我的神' 祂沒變成無神論者
And then the fifth line He gave us was: Good Friday’s taught us that it’s okay to hurt. And you can experience a failure or a rejection or a setback or even experience a disappointment and its okay to expose it and express it.
When He said, ‘I thirst,’ He wasn’t too proud to admit that He needed help. It’s okay to express and expose your hurts. 我們是可以受傷的.我們可以經歷失敗,拒絕,挫折甚至失望.,表達傷痛,讓他人知道,是可以的.Jesus在十架上說我渴了.祂並未驕傲到無法承認祂需要幫助.
The sixth point He made was: There’s a time to let go. 'Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit.’ You know we have a terrible tendency to think that it’s wrong to let go. Life would be a lot better off for a lot of people if they knew when to let go. ‘Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit.’ Norman Vincent Peale was in his 90’s and it was Christmas Eve and in a few hours Christmas would be there and he was very sick. And Ruth stood at his side and she said, ‘Norman, its okay to let go. You can let go now.’ And he let go and he died. There’s a time to let go. 有時必須放手
And the seventh word that Christ gave us on Good Friday is: at the end of our life we can experience fulfillment.
Yeah. It’s finished, He said. It’s finished, which means He did His job.He did what He had to do. He didn’t walk away until it is finished. Fulfillment. Well that’s Good Friday. That’s where we come from and now, 48 hours later,
the tomb is empty. He was taken down from the cross, put in Arimathea's tomb, and now a legend is born that He’s resurrected, that He rose from the dead.