In this sermon, the preacher focuses on the concept of "perform" and its significance in the story of Jesus. He starts by referencing the story of the angel appearing to Mary and explaining how she would conceive a son through the Holy Spirit. The preacher emphasizes that when Jesus cried out "peace" on the cross, he performed the ultimate act of redemption and fulfilled the requirements of the throne. The preacher also mentions the soldiers gambling for Jesus' clothes and highlights the significance of one of them getting his garment. The sermon concludes by discussing the prophetic significance of various Old Testament scriptures that point to Calvary and affirm the unbreakable nature of God's word.

Of course, the cross is at the cross with me, and it's a wonderful place to start the new year at the cross of Calvary. I feel that it's very wonderful that for the first Bible class of this year that we're clustered around the cross. I feel like saying like Paul tonight, God forbid that I should gloriously save in the cross. The cross is something that we want to study more than anything else. The cross is something that we want to preach more than anything else. The cross is something that we glory in more than any other thing. So that's, this is very timely tonight. We're at the cross, and I want to take you through these verses like this. First of all, I want to show you the words, the prophetic words on the cross, how every single detail, ages before yon wooden cross was erected on yon hill, the word on the cross. First, I want to take a moment or two to talk to you about the writing on the cross. This is very important. And then in John's gospel here where we are tonight, we see the woman around the cross, finished, and we'll be out of work. Now that's a very simple line, but there are great depths that we must touch. You remember as we finished the Roman trial two weeks ago, that Pilate delivered unto them to be crucified, and I underline the word, therefore. Verse 16, delivered ye him therefore, just because the cry of the crowd was, we're starting at the last phrase this evening, led him away. You know, I wish I could paint this for you. I'm sure that the man who took him by the arm, a prophecy that was prophesied, most certainly wasn't carried. And nobody pushed. Verse 17 says, and he went unto Abraham, offering up Isaac on Mount Moriah. Sometimes I preach the gospel from it. I take Isaac as the picture of a sinner, condemned already. Yes, the very moment he left his mother's side, he was condemned. When you see him on the road, he becomes concerned. Where is the lamb? Great, when condemned sinners begin asking questions like that, where is the lamb? Then you see him at the end of the story conversant. Yes, wonderfully delivered. But you can take the story another way. It's the story of the father and the son, and Mark you, Mount Moriah. Verses 22, he came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built an altar there. If you go back a little, you'll find this. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and wore a saddle, Christ bearing his cross. Here we have it in John chapter 19, he bearing his cross. You see, Isaiah had foretold that he would be led as a lamb, and Moses, writing Genesis, had foretold that he would bear the cross, went forth outside. Go without forgetting. him. And do you see another little phrase? I am true, other with him. Besides one, he's within the midst. You see, Isaiah had said he would be numerous with the transgressors. Oh, I'm sure they didn't think they were fulfilling all these scriptures. As they led him away, they never thought of what Isaiah 53. As they placed the cross on his shoulder, they crucified him. Those with him, they were not back at Isaiah 53, but everything was being fulfilled. My dear friends, there's something tremendous here. Now watch, here's another one that you put with it. Just skip a verse or two for a moment. You see Jesus being crucified, and then verse 23. Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, threw every soldier apart, and also his coat. Now the coat was without seam from the top throughout, but cast lots for, whose it shall be. Now watch this, that the scripture might be fulfilled with them. They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture did they cast lots. The detail here is a fulfillment, even the placing the cross on his shoulder, taking him to crucify him, putting the seeds on either side, even the detail. We're all poured full, hundreds and hundreds. Are there many those at all that this was the Messiah? My, I have tied up Jews by the hundreds on these socks. I think I'm quite right in saying that there are three hundred and thirty-two prophecies, testament, all the three hundred and thirty-two, Mark you. If you want to find the answer, we're given all having to be full. I think we should look closely at this. Why was God so particular about these gods? Of an old, battered, torn cloth, to a wonder who made it for him. Look, sir, he endured the cross, he despised shame. Sometimes it touches me when I think that the Son of God was laid naked on the cross, but they passed it to the goddess. I wonder what he did with it. A statement to cover another one before him. God so particular about his vest. This proves number two, that the Word of God that proved the man on the cross was the Messiah. Greeks always bring up on to go to Mark in Hebrew, but the Greek point of strength, language of religion, the language, the mythies of the You would know I misunderstood when you want all this man to talk. Do you see it? She was ready for the will of God. She loved him with her whole, her whole soul. You see, in the first meeting, that for the will of God. In this third one, that and I can show you I, and when they put the little ladder there in the morning, and when Peter and John came and looked into the truth, she stood at the temple of a saintly woman's heart. My, as the mother looked at the temple, I, well, I was going down the road to a mess, and it was husband and wife, and they're going down to a wee place because when leaning on her arm, do you see a friend? My, and a fresh woman can always lean on me. Well, I know women in this assembly that you can go at any time. You can lean on. There was something. These are the women that's at the cross. Now, let's go on. Verse twenty-five. Now, they're stood by the cross and she said, Mother, John knew what it meant. You know, you didn't need to preach all night at John. John took her home from that very hour. If there's a Roman Catholic in the meeting, I would like to instruct you that John took Mary home to look after, not Mary, to look after John. You get that inside you, you'll very soon find out she's not the woman that papist Rome believes she is. She was a real woman needing help, and her son realized it, and it was John who looked after her. Oh, it's very touching. Don't you think that, and he couldn't put her in the end, no matter what sort of, let's go on with this. I'll wait with them. Verse twenty-eight. Knowing. My, when the Son of this man before he's ever, he said, when there was thunder of the fig tree before that Philip called thee. Chapter two ends like this, and by this time, you know, they're really beginning, and supposedly there were three hundred and thirty-two things to be fulfilled. All friends, and all the time he's there. Now, I know, I know it was real, nor it wasn't a plea for pleasure, nor it wasn't a cry for comfort, not at all. I put that at the wheel of the cross. This to me is a wonderful. You know, friends, I want you to get that. My, he just wants the book to be fulfilled. He's not thinking about getting his peonies, not at all. He only wants the Word of God to be fulfilled. I wonder, are we like him? Are we prepared to suffer that the Word of God might be fulfilled? I tell you, this was real, physically, it was a wonderful prophetic. Knowing that three hundred and thirty-one, my, he had to eat all kinds of things. The servant of Jehovah saw yon cross. Can you see the cross and the Word of God together tonight? Can you see the cross, and the writing, and the woman, and the wheel? Now, we're coming to the point. Verse, verse twenty-eight again. After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished. Now, there was set a vessel full of vinegar, and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon Hesophod. And Jesus, therefore, had received the vinegar. He said, it is finished. Now, I know that we have three words in our English translation here. But actually, on the cross, he just cried one word. It's a Greek word that just means, finished. Now, what was finished? That's the thing we've got to get down to. You see, I know that every scripture, but there was something more than that finished. You know, the Greek word that's here, is translated in different ways throughout your gospel. And it's wonderful to go back through them and see them. So, I'll show you the word again and again But I'll show you the same word. Come over to Matthew chapter eleven with me. Matthew eleven. Verse one. Matthew eleven one. And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end. You see that phrase? On and off. It's the exact same word that Jesus cried on the cross. Anybody with any ordinary eleven plus. And an end off. That's the same thing, isn't it? When you've made an end off. You see the translation this time, that's wonderful. Let's ask a question now. What had Jesus made? First of all, I want to know what purged our sin. And I said, do you not know? Because you see, when you're Irish and you're asked a question, you always ask one back. That gives you time for thinking. Because that would be washing off. I had to contemplate every word. What Jesus did with our sins at Calvary. He made an end off. My sin. All the breath of this glorious thought. My sin. Oh, what a work. Get on a little bit. Look at. And when they were come to. Not you. It's the very same. What did he pay? I understand he paid the price for me. Remember, for eternal redemption. The price was paid at the undercross. Watch again. Where it looks gospel now. Chapter two. Thirty nine. And when they had performed. It's the same. And I think that you can see this with your eyes open. Listen to this. The son of God was managed once in the end. I'll change. Here's one more. Have a look at Luke's gospel. Chapter eighteen. Look onto him the twelve and said unto them. He is accomplished. Is this where you're resting tonight for all eternity? On the finished work of Christ. For I'm resting. Upon a life I did not live. Are you substituting your prayer for the finished work of Christ? It's a great pity. You'll die and go to hell for all eternity. Some of you. You'll die and go to hell. You're a missing friend. Will you come? Remember what I told you about the woman with the issue of love? She put her hand through the hand of his son. See there. You're bypassing the cross. And just performed on your. Jesus went through all that just for fun. If you can get in with drops of water do you. What in God's name did he come for? To say this for you. He was just a start mate. You shouldn't leave the Satan till you do. Take them home with you now. Ah you can take them right home. Your own personal safe. Go back to John. In the middle of the verse which reads. Finishing where Christ cried finished. No I'm not touching him bowing his head. And I'm not touching him giving up the ghost. Those belong to next week. We were only at the cross work. We need to touch the death and burial. And we'll do it next week. We were only at the crucifixion and the cross tonight. But we'll be at the death. Dear Lord we bow humbly in thy presence and we give thee heartfelt thanks for attending thy time. And we want to come into thy most innermost presence now and worship thee because of Calvary. We feel that the hymn writer has put it just just exactly when he said Calvary covers it all. Oh God our father forever planning Calvary. We want to thank thee for the sacrifice and we do adore thee tonight for the finished work. Pass us in thy fear and with thy blessing for thy name's sake. Amen.