Thank You Scotty awesome thank you
worship team you guys are great didn't
they do a great job it's going to be
ground of applause and it was awesome we
a bunch of us actually went to were in
Brisbane for a couple of days at planet
shakers conference anyone here go to
Planet shakers conference this week and
yeah there's a few of us we heard about
we had about a hundred of our church go
along to that which was great and we
also had about 30 students from our
school went to that as well and it was
just absolutely brilliant and but a lot
of our guys actually served as ashes at
the conference as well and some of these
guys did and then they've come back this
morning to get some refuel with some
pancakes at 8 a.m. and then also lead
worship for us so I think it was just
absolutely wonderful and it was great
and also big thank you to everybody who
was praying for everybody that went away
and it's incredible guys only went away
I was only three nights and two days and
you might think well what can God do in
that time well he can actually do a lot
in that time you know better is one day
in his courts in a thousand anywhere
else and so it was just absolutely
brilliant beyond next year but if you're
visiting here today and you're here from
you're on the Gold Coast for holidays
when I welcome you to the beautiful Gold
Coast hope it stays a little bit sunny
for you over the weekend and we also as
Scotty mentioned we have a Easter Sunday
service Resurrection Sunday at 10 a.m.
here we've got an Easter egg hunt
afterwards for the kids and also will be
at Easter United at broad water park
lands on Sunday night joining with other
churches from around the Gold Coast last
year there was three and a half thousand
people got together you know it's so
funny you know the media and society
might say that the church is dead but it
is not true it is alive and kick'n and
alive and kicking here on the Gold Coast
and and if you don't believe it come
along on Sunday night and and you'll see
it'll be absolutely brilliant so bless
you heaps and also too just another
thing just letting you know about a
couple of really special events coming
up put your hand up if you're a mother
and awesome
audience I put you up if you want to be
a mother put you hand up if you are a
mother and and we've got Mother's Day
service here on May the 12th we always
do something special for the mums so
please feel free to come along and also
bring your mum or someone who's a mother
we're going to spoil them
that day and also I just want to let you
know it's a really we've really got
great favor on some of these things and
we actually have a very special guest
speaker coming to preach this in May is
actually when we're doing a youth rally
in our building on the Saturday night
but also preaching at our church on a
Sunday morning and his name is Nick
virtue chore known as Nick V he's
world-famous he's got no arms and no
legs and he's an evangelist that his
lives in the United States and he's on
Oprah Winfrey and and all that sort of
thing but it's a great soul winner and
almost impossible to get but I had a
phone call from a friend of mine who had
him coming out to Australia and said he
said Ben would you like would you like
Nick V for a Sunday morning and I said
yeah okay that'd be awesome and and he
said because a particular church was
going to have him but they decided they
were going to have a church AGM that day
and so Kings can have him I said praise
God and you know so you know thank you
to that church I won't say their name
but you been embarrassing but you
probably would've heard of them and up
and so that is going to be here so on
the 25th is a youth rally and that night
and you you're welcome to come as long
if you bring earplugs okay and you're
welcome to come along on that night but
also too on the Sunday morning here at
Reedy Creek at 10:00 a.m. we're going to
have him preaching here great soul
winner great evangelist if you've got
some friends who what I call blue moon
Christians which is people who go to
church once in a blue moon bring them
along to that okay because they will
hear the gospel they'll be touched and
and it'll be absolutely brilliant so if
you watch some of these so give to
friends or family feel free to do that
now if you got your Bibles turn with me
to 1 Corinthians 1 Corinthians chapter
11 1 Corinthians chapter 11 if you don't
know where it is it's before 2nd
Corinthians 1 Corinthians chapter 11
verses 23 to 26 it says this for I
receive from the Lord that which I also
delivered to you that the Lord Jesus
Christ on the same night in which he was
betrayed took bread when he had given
thanks he broke it and said take eat
this is my body
which is broken for you do this in
remembrance of me in the same manner he
also took the cup after supper saying
this cup is the new covenant in my blood
this too as often as you drink it in
remembrance of me for as often as you
eat this bread and drink this cup you
proclaim the Lord's death till he comes
let's pray father I just ask and pray
that you would just help us to remember
Lord all that you've done
I think and praise your fruit Lord in
Jesus name Amen
this is quite a well-known passage of
Scripture this was written by the
Apostle Paul and he is talking about the
Last Supper and he is quoting Christ at
the Last Supper so the night before he
actually went to the cross Jesus had a
last supper with his disciples and he
had what we would call the First
Communion and in that he took the bread
and he took the cup and he gave it to
his disciples and he said take Eden and
take and drink do this in remembrance of
me when I was a kid my I was in a church
that I was a Tongan congregation and so
in the morning there would be an English
service and then at night there would be
a tolerance speaking service and that
particular tolerance speaking service
would be held at Wesley Uniting Church
in the center of Melbourne and so we
would go in there on a Sunday afternoon
for that Tongan speaking service but I
grew up here in Australia I am what you
would call probably a coconut you know
brown on the outside white on the inside
and so I went there and I didn't know
much Tongan the only tonglen I knew was
probably words you wouldn't say in
church and so and I remember I would be
there in this service and I'd be
completely bored out of my brain because
I would be talking about they would be
speaking in Tongan I didn't understand
anything and to be honest most of the
time me and my friends would duck I
would go to the local pool parlor and we
would play pool or play video games or
something like that and so it wasn't an
entirely memorable experience but I
remember one time sitting there and
Wesley Uniting Church and I noticed that
up on the stage they had this great big
wooden table and on one side was a loaf
of bread and in the middle was a cup and
on engraved in the side of the table it
says this do in remembrance of me now I
remember and I knew I knew enough to
know that that was Christ who said that
the Christ said to his disciples he said
take the bread and drink the cup do this
in remembrance of me and I would be
sitting there thinking what a silly
thing to say as if we'd forget you know
like Jesus is saying do this remembrance
of maze-like Jesus you know do you
honestly think we'll forget you but
honestly there are times when we need to
be reminded of all the things that he
has done for us and reminded of a number
of things and so here in this is passage
of Scripture I guess if you wanted a
title this message we could call it lest
we forget and we can talk about a few
things here that we need to remind
ourselves off and the perfect time to do
it is on Good Friday when with which is
the day after when they actually had
that first communion to remind us of
what Christ has done for us and you
might have had a difficult first term
you might have had a tough start to the
year and you might have forgotten the
things that you might have a head
knowledge and an ascent of what Christ
has done but it hasn't dropped into your
heart maybe it's been squeezed out by
the cares of this life and this is a
really great time for us on Good Friday
and the reason why it's called good is
because it's a resurrection Sunday it
wouldn't be a good Friday without a
Resurrection Sunday but it's a great
time for us to take stock and to
remember some things about Jesus Christ
and so today I want to talk to you about
four things that we need to remember the
first thing is this so it says in verse
24 of 1 Corinthians 11 it says and when
Jesus had given thanks he broke the
bread and sake said take eat this is my
body which is broken for you do this in
remembrance of me so he's sitting at
this table he's about to go to the cross
the next day and he's eyeballing his
disciples we're reading this through the
text but he's actually looking at his
disciples and he's prophesying about
what's going to happen the next day and
he is saying to them everything I'm
about to go through
doing for you for you the first thing
that we need to remember at this time of
the year as we need to remember his love
we need to remember his love God so
loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son that whosoever should
believe in Him shall not perish but have
everlasting life
the whole reason why Christ died and
went to the cross he was driven by his
love for us as Christians I believe we
should be more focused on his love than
anything else there is no doubt that as
sinners we have fallen short of the
glory of God but the Bible says to us
that there is a way of escape that there
is a way for us to be made in right
relationship and that is because of the
cross of Jesus Christ he died and took
the punishment for our sins that we
might have the ability to be made right
with God and so we need to be aware of
more aware of anything else we actually
need to be made aware of his love the
Bible says these three things remain
faith hope and love but the greatest of
these is actually love that is why as
Christians not only do we need to be
reminded of his love for us but we also
need to be the most loving people on the
planet you know the world will try and
call us as Christians and call us haters
but that is not the truth because we
serve a God of love any spirit lives on
the inside of us and we are people who
serve a God of love the thing is this
though sometimes we determine God's love
not on what Christ did for us but
actually upon our external circumstances
God's love is unchanging but there are
times we go through seasons in life
where we can actually wonder does God
really love me because of what I'm going
through but one of the things we need to
remind ourselves and I think this is why
Christ actually said keep doing this and
remembrance of me is because we can go
through life and we can go through some
difficult times and some difficult
situations and we can judge our love
from God upon our circumstances instead
of what we should truly judge his love
on which is unchanging names at nature
and the love of Jesus Christ is shed
abroad for us died on the cross for us
there literally his
Christ dying on the cross was the
ultimate sign of his love for us I've
told you before that there are times
when my children were younger and they
would often judge my love for them
depending on what I did for them and
there'd be times I'd say things like dad
you hate me and it's like no I don't
hate you but it was because I wasn't
actually giving them what they want
I had one particular friend who was
actually taunting his kids a little bit
and one of them was wanting a biscuit
from the top shelf and so grabbed the
biscuit in here and the kid was saying I
won't give me the biscuit give me the
biscuit and he had it in his hand and he
said what this one and the kids looking
at it and going yes yes and so he who
put supper on his back and brings it out
again and and the kids looking at it is
there any sons like you hate me you
don't love me because he was looking at
the closed hand he was judging his
father's love depending on what his
father would do for him but the whole
time because his dad was cheeky his dad
was smiling and instead of looking at
his hand he should have been looking at
his dad's face some of us here need to
be reminded of his love take your eyes
off his hand to put your eyes on his
face Good Friday Jesus Christ died for
you and me because He loves us the
second thing that we need to remember it
says in when he at verse 24 and when he
had given thanks he broke it and said
take eat this is my body which is broken
for you do this and remembrance of me
he's saying this is my body being broken
salvation for Christ was not cheap cost
him all cost him his whole life and his
body was broken for you and I it wasn't
an easy thing for Christ to go on the
cross Bible says when he was in the
Garden of Gethsemane and he was praying
he was under such pressure that he was
actually sweating drops of blood so much
pressure so much anxiety in fact even at
that moment he said to his heavy
Heavenly Father it would be your will
take this cup of suffering away from me
I don't actually want to go through I
don't buy there's a part of me that
doesn't want to go through this
why because of the sacrifice that he is
made for us the Bible says in Hebrews
chapter 12 verse 2 looking unto Jesus
the author and finisher of our faith who
for the joy set before him endured the
cross doesn't say who for the joy set
before him endured the cross wasn't fun
was nasty it's one of the worst ways you
could die but it said for the joy set
before him what's the joy set before him
it's us he endured the cross we need to
remember his sacrifice as a Christian
when you follow Christ why not
understand the Bible says we're to be
imitators of him it actually says in 1
Corinthians chapter 11 verse 1 at the
start of this chapter the apostle paul
reminded them and he said be imitators
of me even as I imitate Christ that as
Christians we're to imitate Christ and
part of that is that there are times
when we actually make sacrifice there
are times when we actually endure some
suffering but we need to understand that
he actually first endured it for us that
he actually made a significant sacrifice
for us he paid the price so that we
might be might be made right with God
it's interesting in my journaling and
I've got a funny thing with my Bible
journaling so what I've been doing since
2005 is journaling one verse at a time
and so I just read one verse and journal
on it and write like a few sentences
aren't that sort of thing and so with
and so the last couple of years I've
been in numbers and and the thing is
with numbers there's a lot of sacrifice
I've just read numbers chapter 7 it's
over 90 verses one a day and every verse
it's such and such came paid this
sacrifice such and such came paid a
sacrifice for sin such-and-such came
paid a sacrifice for peace offerings
that in the Old Testament they were
continually needing to make sacrifice
but the good thing is that Jesus Christ
made the sacrifice for us so we don't
have to do that anymore though we can
actually have a freedom and a Liberty
because of the sacrifice he actually
made for us and we need to remember
that he actually had his body and broken
for us
you know they've here see romantic films
and novels and people always you know
this kind of a thing like you know the
greatest thing you can do show your love
is to die for someone and you know some
of you may have thought gee I wonder if
anyone would die for me
what can I tell you somebody already did
and his name is Jesus Christ and his
body was broken for you and we need to
remember he sacrificed that I on Good
Friday the third thing that we need to
remember it says in verse 25 of 1
Corinthians 11 says in the same manner
he also took the cup after supper saying
this is the cup in the New Covenant in
my blood the New Covenant so he's saying
I'm making a new covenant with you
covenant means promise so I'm actually
making new promises with you so the
third thing we need to remember at this
time as we need to remember his promises
when Christ died for us when his blood
was shed for us it opened up a whole
world of blessing and potential for our
lives that's why the Bible says in Psalm
103 bless the Lord O my soul and forget
not all his benefits there are benefits
to being a Christian the Bible says that
he forgives you of all your sins but not
only that in healing of all your
diseases not only that he redeems your
life from the pit and from destruction
so that your youth and so that and just
gives you the desires of your heart so
that your youth will be renewed like the
Eagles there's benefits to being a
Christian and he's a Promise Keeper and
Jesus is saying that we need to remember
we're doing this to remember this new
covenant this new promise that I
actually have for you what that tells me
is that God is actually also a promise
keeper on Easter Sunday I'm going to
share a message about patterns of God's
fulfill promises looking at Good Friday
Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday and I
could imagine at this time that he
reuses at the Last Supper and he's
saying there's a new covenant I'm going
to make with you guys and some of them
the penny had not dropped that the next
day he was going to be crucified so the
very next day the day that this day
commemorates Good Friday was the day
that he was actually crucified and on
that day they were scattered on that day
there
dreams were shattered but they should
have remembered the fact that he said
I'm going to make a new covenant with
you that actually I do have promises
that are going to come to pass and in
the same way as Christians we might have
some promises that have died we might
have some promises that look dead and
buried but Easter reminds me that if you
have a promise that looks dead and
buried we serve a resurrection God who
can bring dead things back to life and
we need to remember his promises because
he is a promise keeper there are
promises over your life this promises
over your family's life this promises
over our city this promises over this
church and even in times when it looks
like it may not happen I'm here to let
you know that he is a promise keeper and
he can bring dead things back to life
amen we need to remember his promises
and the last thing that we need to
remember he says in verse 26 he says for
as often as you eat this bread and drink
this cup you proclaim the Lord's death
till he comes God is awesome everything
he does he wants to reach the Lost
because at the end of this he sees you
taking communion and and by doing this
you're proclaiming the Lord's death
until he comes
who are you proclaiming it - we're
proclaiming it to other people the
Christian faith is not supposed to be
suppressed or put in a bowl the Bible
says we're supposed to let our light
shine before all men and even here at
the end before he even goes to the cross
he says you're going to keep proclaiming
my death you're going to keep
proclaiming the good news of the gospel
wherever you go so the fourth thing we
need to remember on Good Friday we need
to remember his sacrifice we need to
remember his love for us and his
promises for us but in the midst of all
that we need to remember the lost
because God did not just Jesus did not
just die for us not just for a few
frozen Chosin the Bible says in John
chapter 3:16 for God so loved the world
that God wants the entire world to come
to a saving knowledge of him
one of the biggest one of the biggest
things the enemy wants to do is to try
and stifle your faith and keep it
private and have you keep it to yourself
and say oh well you know it's just you
and God and society is just not
interested in the gospel and society
doesn't care and that sort of thing and
you know but so just keep it to yourself
but that's not what God's will for our
life he says that no one lights a lamp
and puts it under a bowl our faith is
not supposed to be private our faith our
faith needs to be one that proclaims and
we're to continue to proclaim his death
until he comes that means that every
single one of us God wants us to be
people to be bold who will share our
faith to not just think of our faith as
one that's just for us but it's also
that God actually not only did Jesus die
for us but he actually wants to reach a
lost and hurting world and so often we
have to and sometimes it's good for us
at this time to realize that we are
people that serve a God that people even
if they don't even know it deep in their
hearts what they're looking for is all
in Jesus Christ you know it's so funny
we can get a mindset like that I was
recently talking to a pastor and and he
was parsley had planted a church in the
inner city of Brisbane and he was
finding it really difficult and it was
and it was shrinking and and and and he
was thinking of closing it down and he
was saying to guys you know what it's
too hard to plant a church in the city
of Brisbane he said you know people you
know people don't live in Brisbane they
live outside and people don't want to
come into the city and and then inner
city people they're not really open to
the gospel as much as they are out in
the suburbs or the Gold Coast or
something like that and he was
considering closing his church down but
also just a few weeks ago I was in
Brisbane on a Friday night and so I went
and visited a new church in the middle
of the city and it was packed
filled with hundreds of people same God
but one guy was thinking our world no
it's not
we're in defeat it's not it's just for
us as long as I just keep my faith alive
and yet others had a revelation no no no
we're to proclaim the Lord's death until
he comes God wants to use every single
one of us there's a lot of people here
you love God you've got a relationship
with him and he's been good to you but
there's a timidity and a fear about
sharing your faith with other people I'm
here to let you know that on this Good
Friday that we are - as we remember we
are to remember the lost as well and we
are to proclaim the Lord's death until
he comes amen will you remember with me
let's keep remembering his love let's
remember his sacrifice
that's from memories promises and also
let's remember the lost and maybe you
have family members or people in your
world that are away from God and right
now as I'm speaking you're like you know
I've had a revelation of God but they're
just so far away I've seen it in my
family I've seen it in all around the
place and people who I thought was so
resistant to the gospel Christ did not
die in vain for that by his Spirit he
drew them to him and they gave their
lives across and so maybe you have some
people here and they're more almost
their faces flashing in front of your
mind and you're saying that's who want
you know this is someone they seem so
hard but I want to let you know that the
same Christ that died on the cross for
you and for me died for them as well
amen and also through maybe you're in
this place and you're just visiting and
you don't personally have a relationship
with Christ maybe you're a blue moon
churchgoer once in a blue moon and
that's cool you know if you want to come
once in a blue moon
guess it's no problem over but if you're
in this place and you haven't given your
life to Christ can I tell you that not
only did he die for the Christians
around you but he died for you as well
his body was broken for you and for I to
establish a new covenant so that you
might have relationship with him that
you might have your sins forgiven that
you might have you might go to eternal
you might have spend eternity with him
after you die and if you have not given
you and all you have to do is respond
all you have to do is turn and give your
life to Him the today on Good Friday as
we commemorate him given up his life for
us what better day than to lay your life
down for him in exchange and so could I
just ask everyone to close their eyes
and bow their heads for a moment if
you're in this place and you don't have
a relationship with Jesus Christ you
haven't given your life to Christ you
might be just visiting today you might
be just coming with family and you're
sensing in your heart you're saying
today I want to give my life to Christ
he died for me I'm going to live for him
because that is you right where you are
slip up your hand and say that's me this
morning with every eye closed and every
head bowed if you're here today in your
scene today I want to give my life to
Christ I don't have a relationship with
God want to give my life to him if that
is you won't were you a step up your
hand and say that's me this morning I
want to give my life to Christ or
whatever relationship with God secondly
maybe you're here and as I was preaching
someone's face was being flashed in
front of your mind someone in your world
that does not have a relationship with
Christ someone that is geared to you but
you think is resistant if that is you
right where you ask the Bible your hand
and say that's me because we're just
going to pray for them right now Christ
died the Bible says for God so loved the
world and he died for your friend and
your family member as well and he wants
them to come to a saving faith with him
so let's pray for them right now father
in the name of Jesus
we pray for our friends and family Lord
God you died you gave up your body her
body was broken for us but not just us
but for them as well and I just ask them
pray Lord in Jesus name for all of our
loved ones that on this Good Friday that
don't know you I just ask and pray Lord
that they would come to a saving faith
that they would come to know you and I
thank you for miracles Lord God I think
you're gonna surprise some people Lord
God that there are some people here are
going to be astounded with the
transformation in some of their friends
and family members lord I thank you for
even now Lord God just sending people
around or God your spirit is moving and
going to be drawing them to you and I
thank you and praise you for at Lord and
I declare and prophesy that in 12 months
time at the next Good Friday some of
them will be here sitting with their
family law God having come to know you I
thank you and I praise you for a look
and we're going to keep proclaiming your
death floor until your return I thank
you and praise you for it Lord in Jesus
name Amen amen
Church would you stand to your feet I'm
sorry if I was a bit excited today in
praise God but it's Good Friday because
there's a resurrection sunday he's alive
amen
and I just saw to be real close when I
pray for you and I'd love for us to
finish with that song raise a hallelujah
then we would lift up a voice and be
bold you know the Bible says that on
Good Friday Jesus disciples were
scattered they went away from him but on
this Good Friday we're not going to be
like that we're going to be bold and
we're going to declare his goodness amen