Listen Queue
There is nothing in your queue.
You can add media by tapping the “add to queue” icon located near the media player.
April 6, 1993
In our daily lives, we can easily forget the significance of Christ’s crucifixion. To be transformed by the most pivotal event of human history, Alistair Begg teaches, we must first understand the concept of substitution: Christ accepted penalties which belonged to us, demonstrating the magnitude of God’s love for us. Easter, therefore, invites us to abandon our pride and self-sufficiency and meet the God who set us free, fully and finally.
33And when the sixth hour6 had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.7 34And at the ninth hour Jesus vcried with a loud voice, w“Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” 35And some of the bystanders hearing it said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.” 36And someone ran and filled a sponge with xsour wine, put it on a reed yand gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.” 37And Jesus zuttered a loud cry and abreathed his last. 38And bthe curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. 39cAnd when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he8 breathed his last, he said, d“Truly this man was the Son9 of God!”
40There were also ewomen looking on ffrom a distance, among whom were gMary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and iSalome. 41When he was in Galilee, they followed him and gministered to him, and there were also many other women who jcame up with him to Jerusalem.
Copyright © 2024, Alistair Begg. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.
