 morning radiant family. Hey, thank you those here with us this morning. Stand and those who are joining online. I'm gonna just open with one verse as we turn our hearts to worship. In Psalm 62 it says, for God alone, Psalm 62 verse 1, for God alone my soul waits in silence. From Him comes my salvation. This morning it's commonly referred to as Good Friday, a day where we celebrate and commemorate the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross and the power of His death to free us from sin, the power of His death to pay the penalty for all of our sins past, present, future. But in that as God stepped into eternity, into this moment, into one moment in time from eternity, He accomplished for us what we could not do. He paid a sacrifice for our sin. And it's as if all of creation, all of creation was looking in silence from waiting for an answer, waiting for salvation. And Jesus came taking a body that was prepared for Him for sacrifice and with obedience of Himself on the cross. Now I'm gonna take a moment as we enter worship and just let our hearts be refreshed with this reality. Let our hearts be refreshed with what if you've been in church for a while has become such a common statement that Jesus died for our sins. To let the truth and to let the reality of what Jesus suffered for us to again revive our hearts with gratitude. So God as we come into your presence this morning, Lord, we come with a fresh appreciation, renewed humility that you gave yourself as a sacrifice, as a propitiation. You gave yourself in our place to pay a price that we could never pay. Lord, that you endured the mobile suffering with hearts of gratitude that we stand in awe. We stand in awe of you God. We stand in awe of your incredible plan to leave heaven, to come to earth, to take comfort at the hands of man. Again this morning just in awe. She visioned God of the price that you paid this morning. Lord, we come with gratitude. Thank you God for the cross. Thank you for shedding your blood, Jesus. Thank you for your obedience to death, yes even death on a cross. We worship you God because you have laid it all down for us. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. We say thank you. We say thank you God. We can't fully grasp the reality. We can't fully understand but Lord, with the understanding we have, we say God thank you. Thank you for the cross. Cross. Thank you for the blood shed for our sins. Let's each of us just lift up in our own words. Thank you to Jesus. Jesus, we thank you on this day. Lord, we remember you. Also familiar, John 3.16. Ever believes in him but not perished but have eternal. It's incredible love of the Heavenly Father. He gave his son, not just giving his son to be with us for a while, to enjoy the tender pleasures of earthly life where he would be celebrated, but sent his son to suffer and to die. And what love is this? What love is this? God, what love is this? You would be so passionate in your pursuit of sons and daughters, of sinners like us, broken, desperate, solutionless. Help Father, your heart was moved. Your heart was moved to send your own son to suffer on our behalf, to win to yourself. All of us who are broken, all of us who had no way to reach you. And Jesus, you took that assignment. Jesus, in obedience you became Isaiah 53. Isaiah 53 paints sets of vivid prophetic imagery of the coming Messiah. It says in verse 3 that he was despised and rejected by men. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And as one from whom men hide their faces, he was despised and esteemed and on. In verse 4, surely he has borne our griefs, carried our sorrows, and yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God afflicted. He was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. And upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace and with his wounds. Lord it was the violence that you endured that brought us peace, the heavenly Father. It was the violence against your physical body. It was the thorns. It was the lashings. It was the beatings and the mocking. It was the nails on the cross. Violence against you was achieving peace for us. And we say, God, what love is this? What incredible love is this? For a story that we've heard so many times yet, Lord, increase our capacity. This morning we're asking God to increase our capacity to understand the love that has propelled chasing after lost sons and daughters until they find you. You stopping at nothing, God, to make a way, tearing the veil, even as Jesus on the cross. At the moment of his death, the veil was torn in the temple, showing that the way had been opened between God and man. No longer would a man teach his neighbor, say, know the Lord, but you would write your law on the hearts of men. And all could know you from the least to the greatest. You made a way. God show us, reveal to us the depth and the height and the breath of the love of God that was demonstrated to us in this, that Jesus Christ suffered and died sinless without sin. For our sake, pain the sin off. Yet for our sake was put to shame in the eyes of men. Yet for our sake was made a spectacle for all to jeer and to mock. Yet for our sake endured suffering all the day long. Large our hearts together with all the saints to comprehend, stops at nothing. This love that gives everything that has torn down every barrier that has stood between you and your sons and daughters. Lord, give us eyes to see to be captured again by the wonder of your love. That for the joy that was set before you, you looked out from the cross and you saw the sons and daughters that would come to you. You saw your people throughout time. Lord, you saw the generations that would know your name, that would be cleansed by your sacrifice. And you endured the cross and yet you scorned its shame. But for the joy that was set before you, for the faces and the names and the generations and the legacies that were set before you, for the prize that was set before you Jesus, the prize of sons and daughters of the Most High God. Lord, you endured the cross. Lord, we join your gaze. We join that gaze from being unified with you, taking up our cross. We join the gaze of looking out and seeing those who are lost, those who have not yet received the sacrifice that you have made for their sins, those who have not yet surrendered their life to you, or maybe those who once knew you but have walked away. Let the Lord just impress on your heart right now those people that he wants you to pray for. We're gonna move into a time of intercession for those who right now are away from God. God, right now we just lift up. We lift up those, God, that you have put in our lives, in our families, in our circles of spheres of influence, God, who need you as their Savior, who need the cleansing blood of Jesus to wash them their sins. Lord, we ask you to pierce their heart with your gaze, pierce their life with the gaze, with the eyes of fire that are burning with love and passion to remove every barrier in their world and in their life. This is why you came. This is why you died. To receive unto yourself inheritance. To receive unto yourself, Lord, sons and daughters called by your name. We ask you to come and to break through and to call the lost all through Kalamazoo, through Southwest Michigan to call the lost, Lord, even in our networked churches, Lord, that this weekend would be a calling and a harvest of the lost, Lord. This is why you came. This is why you came to pay the penalty for those who are far from God so that they could be made close to him, so that they could find him. You made a way where there was no way and God were asking you by the power of the Holy Spirit through the blood of the Lamb to open the door of the hearts of man. This weekend, Lord, pour out your mercy, pour out your forgiveness, pour out the grace to repent. God, gift of repentance. God, bring many into the fold this weekend. Love, it's a revelation of who you are and this incredible Lordship, but also in this passion, this love to save that which is lost. The passion that would leave the 99 to find the one. The passion that would leave heaven to come to earth. The passion that would allow yourself to be beaten, carried across, to be jeered, to allow yourself to be publicly humiliated and yet at that moment you are subduing, subduing your enemies and you've triumphed over them. Lord, you made a spectacle of your enemies by the cross. They faces so many things you could show us, but Lord, it's your kindness and it's your love that leads us home. So I'm going to just invite all of you again to me and let's just lift a hand and lift a name to the Lord and I just see him preparing a table and he's just encouraging you. For some of you, you may have siblings or family members, people at work and you're just like, I don't know God. I don't know how they could ever really understand you the way that I do. And I just feel like God's saying just lift up their name, just bring their name before me right now. You make intercession for them. So God, we just lift up our family members. Lord, we lift up those in our workplace, those in our communities. Now, we just honestly, we kind of have a hard time even picturing them knowing you like how we know you and God, we just give you their names right now and we ask you Lord, for your grace, for your intervention. Lord, we ask you, you have died again. You've died for these. You've died for these. You've died for me, but you've also died for all of these Lord. You've set a place for them at your table and God, we may not see how, but Lord, we know you're capable. We know you're able and Lord, we ask you to move. We ask you to work Lord, even that this weekend starting right now would begin to shift their hearts and their minds and their perspectives and they would be able to see you like we do. They would be able to see the love and the kindness of God. They would be able to see and understand the passion of Jesus. Open their eyes, God. Open their eyes no matter how impossible it may seem. No matter how many times they may have heard this news, Lord, let it hit their heart with new power this weekend. We commit them to you. We ask you to move. We ask you to breathe. We ask you to create life in spaces that have been shut off and dark and that have been lied to where the enemy has lies trapped in chambers of their hearts. Lord, we ask you to break through, open those chambers and let the lie out and put truth in its place, God. That your light would dispel the darkness that has held sons and daughters away from their heavenly Father. You would break through in your power, God. You would break through. There is no power that can stand against the blood of Jesus Christ. This speaks a better word than every curse, than every lie. And we declare the blood of Jesus over the doorposts of every heart that we're lifting before you right now. And we declare the truth of God will penetrate hearts in the name of Jesus Christ. And we will see these lives transformed in the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. Salvation, let this be the day of understanding, the day of awakening. So this is the passion of Jesus. So this is what Christianity is all about. Let there be awakening of hearts, awakening spirit and of mind. Just lift up all of our network churches all across the radiant network, God. We're asking for an anointing on the gospel as your resurrection is preached this Sunday, this weekend. As your resurrection is celebrated, Lord, may you bring to yourself just like you did when you rose from the grave. You brought first fruits from among the dead. Lord, would you bring this weekend more fruit with you as we celebrate and tell of your wondrous resurrection of the power and the miracle of your power. May there be many that we're dead that are now alive in you. Lord, we pray for those gospel beliefs preaching churches here in Kalamazoo and western southwest Michigan. Lord, we ask for just an anointing on your church, God, this weekend. Lord, that many sons and daughters are going to find themselves, many prodigals, many people who don't know you are going to find themselves in a church this weekend. And God, I'm asking for a grace and anointing and a gift of repentance and for clarity to impact hearts and minds. Lord, I'm asking that you would receive to yourself many, many new souls, many new sons and daughters coming to your kingdom. The sacrifice is invite this Easter weekend of extra services to invite friends, family. Just take that extra step and invite these people that you've been praying for. Something as simple as an invitation can often lead to a change in life trajectory. Need to pray. We're going to have noon prayer today and then we have good Friday services this evening at our campuses, then of course Easter weekend services. Guys, this is going to be a powerful time in the kingdom. Many are going to come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Many are going to be set free from bondage. Many are going to see Jesus in a way that they've never seen Him before. Many are going to be renewed in their understanding of the resurrection power in their own life and journey. So, lift up these services in your prayer. Invite your friends, family members. Go in peace. We love you guys. Have a great weekend. We'll see you this evening at our good Friday services.