Good Friday 2025 | Nail It To The Cross | Pastor Chad Dingess | 04/18/2025

Colossians 2:13-15 (NKJV)
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. (MULTILINE)

Colossians 2:13-15 (The Message)
When you were stuck on your old sin-dead life, you were incapable of responding to God. God brought you alive–right along with Christ! Think of it! All sins forgiven, the slate wiped clean, that old arrest warrant cancelled and nailed to Christ’s cross. He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the cross and marched them naked through the streets. (MULTILINE)

2 Corinthians 5:19 (The Message)
God put the world square with himself through the Messiah, giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness of sins. God has given us the task of telling everyone what he is doing. (MULTILINE)

2 Corinthians 5:21 (The Message)
How? you say. In Christ. God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God. (MULTILINE)

Romans 3:23
All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. (MULTILINE)

Mark 10:45 (The Message)
“That is what the Son of Man has done: He came to serve, not to be served–and then to give away his life in exchange for many who are held hostage.” (MULTILINE)

1 Corinthians 1:18 (The Message)
The Message that points to Christ on the cross seems like sheer silliness to those hellbent on destruction, but for those on the way of salvation, it makes perfect sense. This is the way God works, and most powerfully as it turns out. (MULTILINE)

1 Corinthians 2:2
For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. (MULTILINE)

I. Sin & Condemnation (MULTILINE)

Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. (MULTILINE)

II. Emotional Suffering (MULTILINE)

2 Corinthians 8:9 (The Message)
You are familiar with the generosity of our Master, Jesus Christ. Rich as he was, he gave it all away for us–in one stroke he became poor, and we became rich. (MULTILINE)

Philippians 4:19 (The Message)
You can be sure that God will take care of everything you need, his generosity exceeding even yours in the glory that pours from Jesus. (MULTILINE)

III. Self-Righteousness (MULTILINE)

Colossians 2:13-23 (NKJV)
And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. So, let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his freshly mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God. Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of this world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations. Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle, which all concern things which perish with the using–according to the commandments and doctrines of men? These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh. (MULTILINE)

Philippians 3:7-11
The very credentials these people are waving around as something special, I’m tearing up and throwing out with the trash–along with everything else I used to take credit for. And why? Because of Christ. Yes, all the things I once thought were so important are gone from my life. Compared to the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus as my Master, firsthand, everything I once thought I had going for me is insignificant–dog dung. I’ve dumped it all in the trash so that I could embrace Christ and be embraced by him. I didn’t want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ–God’s righteousness. I gave up all that inferior stuff so I could know Christ personally, experience his resurrection power, be a partner in his suffering, and go all the way with him to death itself. If there was any way to get in on the resurrection from the dead, I wanted to do it. (MULTILINE)

IV. Resentment & Un-Forgiveness (“Bitterness”) (MULTILINE)

V. The Past & Its Regrets (MULTILINE)

VI. Sickness & Disease (MULTILINE)

Isaiah 53:5
But he was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. (MULTILINE)

Psalms 103:1-3
Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O, my soul, and forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases. (MULTILINE)