64 | The Coming Hour

In this message, Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher traces “the coming hour” of Christ’s crucifixion as a divinely determined moment planned before the world began. He shows from passages like Acts 2, Hebrews 13, Romans 3, and Daniel 9 that Jesus’ death was not accidental, but the result of an eternal covenant between the Father and the Son, in which the Son willingly agreed to bear the full weight of God’s wrath for sinners. As the Gospel of John unfolds, Pastor Josh notes how Jesus repeatedly says His hour has “not yet come,” until John 12–17, when He finally declares that His hour has arrived—His betrayal, suffering, and death now immediately before Him. Even the triumphal entry, the examination by Israel’s leaders, and His meek presentation as the spotless Passover Lamb are all shown to be precise fulfillments of God’s prophetic timetable.

Strelecki then presses the personal and eternal implications of Christ’s hour. Though Jesus alone is pure, lovely, and without fault, He takes on the sin and uncleanness of the world so that God can remain just and yet justify sinners who believe. Josh emphasizes that no amount of signs will convince a hard heart; rather, God calls us simply to take Him at His Word and believe that Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again. Through that finished work—summed up in Jesus’ cry, “It is finished”—our sin debt is fully paid, we receive forgiveness, are clothed in Christ’s righteousness, and are given eternal life. In light of such a Savior and such a salvation, Pastor Josh urges believers to value Christ above all passing things and to let this eternal hope shape how we live in this brief “blip” of time before the next great hour of His return.