1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:04,240 After sitting down there, I noticed that I have my chapters 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:09,560 wrong on the board. It should say chapters 26 and 27 3 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:13,760 and not 27 and 28. So for a reading this morning, 4 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:17,600 we're going to go ahead and read both of those chapters, the most 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:23,920 important event ever known to mankind that we could read 6 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:26,280 about. And I want us to understand the 7 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,920 gravity of what we're going to be reading about this morning 8 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:32,880 and studying. So if you would please follow 9 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:37,120 along in your Bible or have your phone or a device, that's fine. 10 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,400 But I want to make sure that we are reading this together as a 11 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:44,080 congregation, starting in Matthew 26. 12 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,000 Now it came to pass when Jesus had finished all these things 13 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,200 that he said to his disciples. You know that after two days in 14 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,440 the is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to 15 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,280 be crucified. Then the chief priests, the 16 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:02,360 scribes, and the elders of the people assembled at the palace 17 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,960 of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, and plotted to 18 00:01:05,960 --> 00:01:07,920 take Jesus by trickery and kill him. 19 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,400 But they said not during the feast, lest there be an uproar 20 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,480 among the people. And when Jesus was in Bethany at 21 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:18,280 the House of Simon the Leper, a woman came to him having an 22 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:22,600 alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil, And she poured it 23 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,720 on his head. And he sat at the table as he 24 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,600 sat at the table. But when his disciples saw it, 25 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,320 they were indignant, saying, why waste this? 26 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,960 For this fragrant oil might have been sold for much and given to 27 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:37,600 the poor. But when Jesus was aware of it, 28 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,280 he said to them, Why do you trouble the woman? 29 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,080 For she has done a good work for me. 30 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:44,600 For you have the poor with you always. 31 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:48,840 But me you do not have always, For in pouring this fragrant oil 32 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,240 on my body she did it for my burial. 33 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:55,240 Assuredly I say to you, whoever this gospel is preached in the 34 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:59,560 world, in the whole world, what is what this woman has done will 35 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,240 also be told as a memorial to her. 36 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,800 Then one of the 12 called Judas Iscariot went to the chief 37 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,520 priests and said, what are you willing to give me if I deliver 38 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,280 him to you? And they counted out to him 30 39 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,400 pieces of silver. So from that time he sought 40 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,040 opportunity to betray him. Now on the first day of the 41 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:22,640 Feast of the Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus, 42 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:26,320 saying to him, where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the 43 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,800 Passover? And he said, go into the city to 44 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:33,200 a certain man and say to him, The teacher says, my time is at 45 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:37,000 hand, I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples. 46 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:41,120 So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they 47 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:44,920 prepared the Passover. When evening had come, he sat 48 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:47,920 down with the 12 Now as they were eating, he said. 49 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:50,800 Assuredly I say to you, one of you will betray me. 50 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,280 And they were exceedingly sorrowful. 51 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:56,880 And each of them began to say to him, Lord, is it I? 52 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,640 He answered, and said, he who dipped his hand with me in the 53 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:04,600 dish, will betray me. The Son of Man, indeed goes just 54 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,080 as is written of him. But woe to the man by whom the 55 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:11,520 Son of Man is betrayed? It would have been good for that 56 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:16,480 man if he had not been born. Then Judas, who was betraying 57 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,040 him, answered and said, Rabbi, Is it I? 58 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:21,880 He said to him, You have said it. 59 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,000 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread blessed and and broke 60 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,720 it, and gave it to his to the disciples, and said, take, eat 61 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,800 this, this is my body. Then he took the cup and gave 62 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,360 thanks, and gave it to them, saying, drink from it all of 63 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,800 you, For this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for 64 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,640 many for the remission of sins. But I say to you, I will not 65 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:45,320 drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when 66 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:47,960 I drink it new with you in my Father's Kingdom. 67 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,160 And when they had sung A hymn, and they went out to the Mount 68 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:55,560 of Olives, then Jesus said to them, All of you will be made to 69 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:57,120 stumble because of me this night. 70 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,720 For it is written, I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of 71 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:03,760 the flock will be scattered. But after I have been raised, I 72 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,480 will go before you to Galilee. Peter answered and said to him, 73 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:11,640 Even if all were made to stumble because of you, I will never be 74 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:15,360 made to stumble. Jesus said to him, assuredly, I 75 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,640 say to you that this night before the rooster crows, you 76 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:22,880 will deny me three times. Peter said to him, Even if I die 77 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:28,080 with you, I will not deny you. And so said all the disciples. 78 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,720 Then Jesus came with them to a place called the Gethsemane, and 79 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,160 said to them to the disciples, Sit here while I go and pray 80 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:38,120 over there. And he took with him Peter and 81 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,760 the two sons of Zebedee, and he began to be sorrowful and deeply 82 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,760 distressed. Then he said to them, My soul is 83 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:46,920 exceedingly sorrowful even to death. 84 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,440 Stay here and watch with me. He went a little further and 85 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:54,280 fell on his face, and prayed, saying, Oh my father, if it is 86 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:59,280 possible, let this cup pass from me nevertheless, not as I will, 87 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,560 but as you will. Then he came to the disciples, 88 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,160 and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, what could you 89 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:06,720 not watch with me? One hour? 90 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:09,760 Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. 91 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:14,080 The Spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak again. 92 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:17,240 A second time he went away and prayed, saying, Oh my father, if 93 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:21,280 this cup cannot pass away from me unless I drink it, your will 94 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:23,800 be done. And he came and found them 95 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:25,640 asleep again, for their eyes were heavy. 96 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:29,040 So we left them and went away and prayed the third time, 97 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:32,280 saying the same words. Then he came to his disciples 98 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:34,840 and said to them. Are you still sleeping and 99 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:37,360 resting? Behold the hours at hand, and 100 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,080 the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. 101 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:44,200 Rise, let us be going. See, my betrayer is at hand. 102 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,400 And while he was still speaking, behold Judas, one of the 12 with 103 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:52,320 a great multitude was swords and clubs, came to the chief priests 104 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,800 and elders of the people. Now his betrayer had given them 105 00:05:55,800 --> 00:06:00,040 a sign saying whoever who whomever I kiss he is, the one 106 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,160 sees him. Immediately he went up to Jesus 107 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:06,040 and said greetings Rabbi, and kissed him. 108 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:09,960 But Jesus said to him, friend, why have you come? 109 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:13,520 Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him. 110 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:16,520 And suddenly one of those who were with Jesus stretched out 111 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,040 his hand and grew his sword, and struck the servant of the high 112 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:22,520 priest, and cut off his ear. But Jesus said to him, Put your 113 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:26,880 sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by 114 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,400 the sword. Or do you think that I cannot 115 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:32,200 now pray to my Father, and he will provide me with more than 116 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:35,680 12 legions of angels? How then could the Scriptures be 117 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:39,400 fulfilled that it must happen to us in that hour? 118 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,640 Jesus said to the multitudes. Have you come out as against a 119 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,160 robber with swords and clubs to take me? 120 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:50,040 I sat with you daily. I sat daily with you teaching in 121 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,120 the temple, and you did not seize me. 122 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:55,400 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might 123 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:59,000 be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook 124 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:04,320 him and fled, and those who had laid hands on Jesus led him away 125 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,800 to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders 126 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,640 were assembled. But Peter followed him at a 127 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:15,120 distance with to the high priest's courtyard, and when and 128 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:17,640 he went in and sat with the servants to see the end. 129 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:20,400 Now the chief priests, the elders, and all the council 130 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:24,640 sought false testimony against Jesus to put him to death, but 131 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,280 found none. Even though many false witnesses 132 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:31,200 came forward, they found none. But at least two false witnesses 133 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,360 came forward and said. This fellow said, I am able to 134 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,000 destroy the temple of God and to build it in three days. 135 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,760 And the high priest arose and said to him, Do you answer 136 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:43,600 nothing? What is it? 137 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:45,720 These men's tends to testify against you. 138 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,920 But Jesus kept silent, And the high priest answered and said to 139 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:54,680 him, I put you underoath by the living God, tell us, if you were 140 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:59,640 the Christ, the Son of God, Jesus said to him, It is as you 141 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:01,760 said. Nevertheless, I say to you, 142 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:05,560 hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand 143 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:08,560 of power and coming on the clouds of heaven. 144 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,200 Then the high priest tore his clothes, saying he has spoken 145 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:16,400 blasphemy. What further need do we have of 146 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,080 witnesses? Look now to you have heard his 147 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:20,760 blasphemy. What do you think? 148 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,160 They answered. His said he is deserving of 149 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,880 death. Then they spat on his face and 150 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:32,240 beat him, and others struck him with the palms of their hands, 151 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:36,120 saying, prophecy to us. Christ, who was the one who 152 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,200 struck you? Now Peter sat outside in the 153 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:42,400 courtyard, and a servant girl came to him, saying you were 154 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,800 also were with Jesus of Galilee, but he denied it before them 155 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:47,840 all, saying, I do not know what you were saying. 156 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,200 And when he had gone out to the gateway, another girl saw him 157 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,960 and said to those who were with them, who who were there. 158 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:59,240 This fellow also was with Jesus of Nazareth, but again he denied 159 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,240 with an oath. I do not know the man. 160 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:05,520 A little later those who stood up stood by, came up, and said 161 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:09,560 to Peter, surely you are also one of them, for your speech 162 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:12,480 betrays you. Then he began to curse and 163 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:14,840 swear, saying, I do not know the man. 164 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:19,440 Immediately the roaster crowed, rooster crowed, and Peter 165 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:23,040 remembered the word of Jesus, who had said to him before. 166 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:25,640 The rooster crows, you will deny me three times. 167 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:29,640 So he went out and wept bitterly when the morning came. 168 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:32,640 All the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted 169 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:36,040 against Jesus to put him to death, And when they had bound 170 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:38,840 him, they led him away to deliver him to Pontius Pilate, 171 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:42,440 the governor. Then Judas, his betrayer, seeing 172 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,920 that he had been condemned, was remorseful, and brought back the 173 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:49,400 30 pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I 174 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,480 have sinned by betraying innocent blood. 175 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:54,360 And they said, what is that to us? 176 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:58,320 You see to it, Then he threw, then that he threw down the 177 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:01,440 pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and 178 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,040 hanged himself. But the chief priest took the 179 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,000 silver pieces and said it is not lawful to put them in the 180 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,760 treasury, because they are not. They are the price of blood. 181 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,720 And they consulted together and bought with him the Potter's 182 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:16,240 field to bury strangers in. Therefore that field has been 183 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:18,120 called the field of blood to this day. 184 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,520 Then was fulfilled what the spoken by the by Jeremiah the 185 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,320 prophet saying, And they took the 30 pieces of silver, the 186 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:29,240 value of him who was pierced, whom they of the children of 187 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:34,960 Israel Christ, and gave them for the Potters field as the Lord 188 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,680 directed me. Now Jesus stood before the 189 00:10:37,680 --> 00:10:40,560 governor, and the governor asked him, saying, Are you the king of 190 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:43,800 the Jews? Jesus said to him it is as you 191 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:47,520 say, and while he was being accused by the chief priests and 192 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:51,640 the elders, he answered nothing. Then Pilate said to him, do you 193 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,280 not hear how many things they testify against you? 194 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,240 But he answered him not one word, so that the governor 195 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:00,920 marvelled greatly. Now the feast of the governor 196 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,360 was accustomed to releasing the multitude 1 prisoner whom they 197 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:08,440 wished, and at that time they had notorious prisoner called 198 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,080 Barabbas. Therefore when they had gathered 199 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:14,920 together, Pilate said to them, who do you want me to release to 200 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:18,160 you, Barabbas or Jesus, who was called Christ? 201 00:11:18,680 --> 00:11:22,560 For he knew that they had handed him over because of envy, while 202 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:25,320 he was sitting on the judgment seat his wife sent to him, 203 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:29,040 saying, have nothing to do with that just man. 204 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,040 For I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him. 205 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:35,360 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes 206 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,040 that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. 207 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:41,840 The governor answered and said to them, Which of the two do you 208 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:44,880 want me to release to you? They said, Barabbas. 209 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:48,920 Pilate said to them, What then shall I do with Jesus, who was 210 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:52,920 called Christ? They all said to him, let him be 211 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:56,080 crucified. Then the governor said, why? 212 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:00,040 What evil has he done? But they cried out all the more, 213 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,760 saying, Let him be crucified. When Pilate saw that he could 214 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:07,400 not prevail at all, but rather that atonement was rising, he 215 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,880 took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I 216 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:14,120 am innocent of the blood of this just person, you see to it. 217 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:19,240 And all the people answered and said, He is blood beyond us and 218 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,600 on on our children. Then he released Barabbas to the 219 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,920 to them, and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him 220 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,920 to be crucified. Then the soldiers of the 221 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:34,040 governor took Jesus into into the praetorium and gathered him 222 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:37,760 and gathered the whole Garrison around him, and they stripped 223 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,280 him and put a scarlet robe on him. 224 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,120 When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on his head 225 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:48,720 and a Reed in his right hand, and they bowed the knee before 226 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:51,600 him and mocked him, saying Hail king of the Jews. 227 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:56,120 Then they spat on him, and they took a Reed and struck him on 228 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:58,560 the head. And when they had mocked him, 229 00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:02,880 they took the robe off him, put his own clothes on him, and led 230 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:07,160 him away to be crucified. Now as they came out, they found 231 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:11,200 a man of Siren Simon by name him They compelled to bear his 232 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,880 cross, and when they had come to a place called Golgotha, that is 233 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:19,080 to say place of the school skull, they gave him a sour 234 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:22,560 wine, mingle with Gall to drink, but when he had tasted it, he 235 00:13:22,560 --> 00:13:26,760 would not drink. Then they crucified him and 236 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:30,000 divided his garments, casting lots that it might be fulfilled, 237 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,960 which was spoken by the Prophet. They divided my garments among 238 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:37,920 them, and for my clothing they cast lots sitting down. 239 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:42,760 They kept watch over him there, and they put up over his head 240 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:44,680 the accusation written against him. 241 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:47,520 This is Jesus the king of the Jews. 242 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:50,560 Then the two rob. Then two robbers were crucified 243 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:54,160 with him, one on the right and. One on the left and those who 244 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:57,200 passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads and saying, 245 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:01,320 You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save 246 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:05,120 yourself, If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross. 247 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,920 Likewise the chief priests, also mocking with the scribes and 248 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,760 elders, said he saved others himself. 249 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,720 He cannot save. If he is the king of Israel, let 250 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,720 him now come down from the cross and we'll believe him. 251 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:22,120 He trusted in God, Let him deliver him now if he will have 252 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:25,160 him. For he said, I am the Son of 253 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,360 God. Even the robbers who were 254 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:30,080 crucified with him reviled him with the same thing. 255 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:35,000 Now from the 6th hour until the 9th hour there was darkness over 256 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,840 the land. And about the 9th hour Jesus 257 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:42,840 cried out with a loud voice saying Eli Eli, lama Sabakthani. 258 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:47,080 That is to say, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 259 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,680 Some of those who stood there when they heard that said, this 260 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:55,440 man is calling for Elijah. Immediately one of them ran and 261 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:58,200 took sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on the Reed, 262 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:01,400 and offered it to him to drink. The rest said, Leave him, let 263 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,560 him alone, let us see if Elijah will come and save him. 264 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:08,960 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up his 265 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:13,120 spirit. Then behold, the veil of the 266 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:18,400 temple was torn in two from top to bottom the earth quaked, and 267 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:22,400 the rocks were split, and the graves were open, and many 268 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,560 bodies of the Saints who had fallen asleep were raised and 269 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:27,200 coming out of the brick, the graves. 270 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:31,720 After his resurrection they went into the holy city, and appeared 271 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:35,360 to many. So the centurion that, and those 272 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:38,320 with him who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake, and 273 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:40,920 the things that had happened they feared greatly saying, 274 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:45,760 Truly this was the Son of God, and many women who followed 275 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:50,280 Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him, were there looking on 276 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:54,000 from afar, among whom were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of 277 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:58,080 James and and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee's son. 278 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:02,360 Now when evening had come, there came a rich man from Arimathea 279 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:06,480 named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus. 280 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,320 This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 281 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:13,640 Then Pilate commanded the body to be given to him, when Joseph 282 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,840 had taken the body and wrapped it and clean linen cloth and 283 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,920 laid it out in in his new tomb, which he had hewn out of the 284 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:22,320 rock. And he rolled a large stone 285 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:24,920 against the door of the tomb and departed. 286 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:28,760 And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary sitting up 287 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:31,760 opposite the tomb. On the next day, which followed 288 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,880 the day of preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees 289 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,640 gathered together to Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember while 290 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:38,880 he was still alive. How? 291 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,280 How that deceiver said, after three days I will rise. 292 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:45,480 Therefore command that the tomb may be secure until the third 293 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:49,640 day, unless his disciples come by night and steal him away and 294 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:51,720 say to the people, he has risen from the dead. 295 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,640 So the last deception will be worse than the first, Pilate 296 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:59,000 said to them. You have a guard go your way, 297 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,680 make it as secure as you know. So they went and made the tomb 298 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:06,200 secure, sealing the stone and setting the guard. 299 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:12,119 We're going to look at the cross of Jesus Christ today, the 300 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:16,839 center point of all history, all of mankind, as we said. 301 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:22,359 And understanding the cross is really understanding the key to 302 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:28,000 everything that we do in our life and how we understand the 303 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,680 Bible. And so the question I want to 304 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:34,480 ask is why? Why is this event? 305 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:41,120 Why is this event? So significant that happened 306 00:17:41,120 --> 00:17:44,600 2000 years ago. Why is it so significant, so 307 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:48,280 significant? And if you were to ask me, what 308 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:51,320 is the significance of the cross, Why is the cross so 309 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:56,080 important? I think that we need to really 310 00:17:56,080 --> 00:18:02,000 understand what the holiness of God is first to to start 311 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:05,480 understanding what the cross is about, to remember the holiness 312 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:10,080 of of God. It's critical to understanding 313 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:13,640 the importance of the cross. Until we see God for who he is 314 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,200 and ourselves for who we are, we'll never see the cross for 315 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:19,800 what it means. But when we see God for who He 316 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:23,880 is, and when we see ourselves for who we are, then the 317 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,720 necessity and the wonder of the cross becomes so obvious to us 318 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:32,320 that we can't deny it, and we're astonished by it, and we just 319 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:36,840 center our lives around what Jesus has done for us. 320 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,720 So the character of God, basically an overview of His 321 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:46,360 Holiness, His glorious uniqueness. #1 He is sovereign 322 00:18:46,360 --> 00:18:51,520 over all, He is sovereign over all psalms. 24 verses one 323 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:55,720 through 2 says the earth is the Lord's and everything in it the 324 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,960 world and all who live in it. For he founded it upon the seas, 325 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:01,240 and established it upon the waters. 326 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:04,600 God created all things. God knows all things. 327 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:08,320 God sustains all things. God owns all things. 328 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:14,240 Sovereignty means authority. God is the author of all things 329 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:17,840 which mean which means that he has authority over all things. 330 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:22,040 He has authority to govern the world that we live in. 331 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:24,360 He has the authority to govern our lives. 332 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:29,360 He has all the rights. We belong to him, however. 333 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:34,040 Humanity has rebelled against God and the authority of God, 334 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,160 and this is what we see in Genesis chapter three of the 335 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:38,920 Great Fall. Even though God said not to eat 336 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,600 from that tree, well, we're going to go ahead and do it 337 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,920 anyway. We have rejected humanity, has 338 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:48,280 rejected the the authority of God in that way. 339 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:51,320 Secondly, he is righteous above all. 340 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:56,760 He is right in all that he does. We look at Genesis and Psalms. 341 00:19:56,760 --> 00:20:00,640 In Genesis 1825 it says Will not the judge of all the earth do 342 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:04,640 right? And also in Psalms 145 verse 17 343 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,320 says the Lord is righteous in all his ways and loving toward 344 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:11,360 all He has made. God is right. 345 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:15,000 He's righteous in all of His ways. 346 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:18,280 He has never had a wrong thought, never done a wrong 347 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:20,840 deed. He has never had a wrong motive, 348 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,920 never said a wrong thing. He is totally and completely 349 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:31,400 right all the time, and humanity has despised his righteousness. 350 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:37,360 Romans 3 verses 10 through 12. As it is written, there is none 351 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:40,440 righteous, no, not one. There is no one who understands. 352 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,840 There is none who seeks after God. 353 00:20:43,120 --> 00:20:45,760 They have all turned aside. They have all together become 354 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:48,320 unprofitable. There is none who does good. 355 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:56,120 No, not one. Our humanity, our human nature 356 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:59,120 tends to be completely opposite of what God is. 357 00:20:59,120 --> 00:21:02,600 We have wrong thoughts, we do wrong things, we possess wrong 358 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,320 motives, We say the wrong things. 359 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:09,080 God is totally right and we have despised His righteousness, 360 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,080 rebelled against His righteousness. 361 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,880 Thirdly, He is just in all of his wrath. 362 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:20,320 He is just in all of his wrath. Because God is holy and 363 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:25,640 righteous, He cannot stand sin. His justice flows from his 364 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,760 righteousness with God. A wrathful response to sin and 365 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:34,160 evil is not just a possibility, it is an inevitability. 366 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,680 Scripture uses more than 20 different words to describe 367 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:42,520 God's wrath, and there are over 580 different references to 368 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:46,280 God's wrath in the Bible. In the Old Testament, it makes 369 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:50,320 it clear that God's wrath is real and it is personal. 370 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,600 It is intense and it is constant. 371 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,560 God's wrath is not mysterious or irrational. 372 00:21:56,560 --> 00:22:00,440 It's not unpredictable. It is always predictable because 373 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:04,360 the evil provokes the wrath of God every time, and this is the 374 00:22:04,360 --> 00:22:08,000 consistent response of a holy and righteous God. 375 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:12,040 His His wrath is pure and his wrath is also loving. 376 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:18,280 It is good for God to hate that which destroys you and I, and 377 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:20,960 the New Testament only deepens that picture of God's wrath, 378 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,000 making it clear that His wrath is continual. 379 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,080 It is coming. We see that in Matthew 3, John 380 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,840 the Baptist announcing the King is coming with a winnowing fork 381 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:32,840 in his hand, Jesus comes into a world under the wrath of God. 382 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:37,440 In John 336 it says He who believes in the Son has 383 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,480 everlasting life and he who does not believe the Son shall not 384 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,360 see life. But the wrath of God abides on 385 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:46,760 him. God's wrath is deserving. 386 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,080 It's dreadful, it's final, and it's eternal. 387 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,560 The reality is because God is holy and righteous and 388 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:59,200 infinitely honorable and infinitely worthy, one sin 389 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:05,200 against him is an infinite offense and an infinite dishonor 390 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,760 deserving of infinite punishment. 391 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,160 I want to remind us, and we all know this, that one sin alone, 392 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:19,080 just one sin led to the curse of God that affects all of us 393 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,600 today, the entire world. One sin eating a piece of fruit 394 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:25,400 in the in the disobedience of God. 395 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,280 That one sin, we have all the effects that we see throughout 396 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,360 history. We see wars, Holocaust, cancer, 397 00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:34,760 diseases, tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, 398 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:40,640 terrorism, pain, suffering, all because of 1 sin that we saw in 399 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:44,240 Genesis. Chapter 3, Romans 5 says that 400 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,520 one sin brought condemnation to all men. 401 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:52,640 That was one sin and you and I have thousands of sins in our 402 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,240 lives. We have so many. 403 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,880 Which is why Romans 3 verses 5 through 6 makes it clear that 404 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,040 God is just and bringing His wrath on us. 405 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:04,360 He is just in all of His wrath and we have disregarded His 406 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:07,960 wrath. Fourthly, He is loving toward 407 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:17,280 His creation In John First John 4 verse 16, it says and if and 408 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:21,280 we have known and believe the love that our that God has for 409 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:25,000 us, God is love and he who abides in love abides in God and 410 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,440 God in him. God is love and we have denied 411 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:33,080 His love, meaning we have turned from his love and we have, as it 412 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,440 says in Romans 2 verse four, shown contempt for the riches of 413 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,120 his kindness, tolerance and patience towards us. 414 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:46,600 So how can a righteous God be loving to rebellious sinners who 415 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:52,920 are due His wrath? That is the question at the 416 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:57,360 center of the Bible. If all this is true, if God is 417 00:24:57,360 --> 00:25:00,040 sovereign and we have denounced His sovereignty, if God is 418 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,040 righteous and we as humanity have despised His righteousness, 419 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,720 If God is just in all His wrath and we have now disregarded His 420 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:10,360 wrath, if God is loving toward all His creation and we have 421 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:15,360 denied His love, then how can a righteous God be loving to 422 00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:18,520 rebellious sinners who are due His wrath? 423 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,880 And if we're ever going to understand the cross, we must 424 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,200 feel the the intensity and the weight of that question. 425 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,080 It's the question that Scripture ultimately is concerned with and 426 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,280 deals with. How can sinful man be righteous 427 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,840 before God? Proverbs, if you have your 428 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,320 Bible, if you want to go to Proverbs 17 verse 15, it's an 429 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,280 interesting verse. This verse helps us kind of have 430 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,720 a better understanding. It says in Proverbs chapter 17, 431 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:50,680 verse 15, He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the 432 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:55,040 righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord. 433 00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:00,720 He who justifies the wicked and condemns the righteous, they are 434 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:06,720 both an abomination to the Lord. So if a judge says to a wicked 435 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:11,600 person you are right, you're innocent, we would. 436 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,560 No, that's not correct. That's an abomination. 437 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,400 If a judge says to a righteous person you are wrong, you're 438 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,040 condemned. That is an abomination to the 439 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,000 Lord. That makes no sense to us. 440 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,720 We understand that now if we apply this to God and to us, if 441 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,360 God were to look at you and I and our wickedness and say 442 00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:37,600 you're right or you're innocent, that would not be understanding 443 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,000 at all. We, we can't fathom that That 444 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,120 would be an abomination to the Lord, and that's a problem. 445 00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:44,840 And as soon as God tells rebellious sinners that they are 446 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,960 right before him, God becomes He has that problem. 447 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,320 He has that conflict there. So we see the tension. 448 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,440 How can a righteous God be loving toward rebellious sinners 449 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,040 who will rightfully do his wrath? 450 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,680 That's the fundamental problem that we see. 451 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:02,840 Dealt with in the Bible, in the Scripture. 452 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,400 But it's not the problem that we actually normally identify it. 453 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:10,600 You know, if we think about it, you know, not many people in our 454 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,480 culture are worried about how God can be just and kind to 455 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,280 sinners at the same time. There's not a whole lot, not 456 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,840 many, if any at all. How many people are losing sleep 457 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,320 at night because God is being kind to sinners? 458 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,880 No, that's what we want. We want God to be kind to 459 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,520 sinners, right? We're so wrapped up in thinking 460 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,120 that we can point the finger to God and people start saying, how 461 00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:37,680 can God punish sinners? How can you let people go to 462 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,600 hell? How can God being so good, let 463 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,080 people go to hell? But the question of the Bible is 464 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:50,960 quite opposite. But the question of the God how 465 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,280 can you be just and right and let rebels into heaven? 466 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,680 Romans 325 is saying the purpose of the cross was to show the 467 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,480 righteousness of God because of in his divine forbearance 468 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,560 patience, God has passed over former sins. 469 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,400 That's the whole picture of the Bible. 470 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:13,320 God is passing over sins. In Second Samuel 12 we remember 471 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:17,920 David, a man after God's own heart, but he was he was guilty 472 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,200 of adultery, he was guilty of murder and lying. 473 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,080 And the prophet Nathan confronts him. 474 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:28,920 And in Second Samuel 12 and verse 13, David says to Nathan, 475 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,480 I have sinned against the Lord, Nathan replied. 476 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,400 The Lord has taken your sin, you are not going to die. 477 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:42,680 Adultery, murder just passed over. 478 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,880 Is that justice? I don't think so. 479 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,520 I don't think that's justice. If a judge were to look at this 480 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:55,960 case today and say he puts murder and adultery and just 481 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,720 you're innocent, we would want that judge removed from the bar 482 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,600 immediately and never be able to sit on the bench again. 483 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:06,680 That judge is not right. God's forgiveness of our sin. 484 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:11,360 God's forgiveness of your sin is a problem for God. 485 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,120 I know I'm saying a lot, but I'm going to wrap this up. 486 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:15,960 I'm going to bring this all together. 487 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:21,360 God cannot be just and yet acquit you and I and our sin and 488 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,960 our rebellion and our belittling, belittling over his 489 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:25,840 glory. He just can't Passover sin. 490 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:31,840 It's against his nature. If God were to overlook sin, His 491 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:36,600 justice, His Holiness would be completely compromised and he 492 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,320 would no longer be God. And this is where we realized 493 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,480 that before the cross is for anyone's sake, the cross, the 494 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:51,440 cross was really for God's sake. This is God showing and 495 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,560 displaying His justice and His righteousness towards sin. 496 00:29:55,280 --> 00:30:01,840 Who did Christ die for? Me and you, Yes. 497 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:03,880 But I don't think that's the complete answer. 498 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:05,800 I don't think that's the full answer. 499 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:07,920 Did He die for all the nations and all the people? 500 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:12,320 Yes, but with there's still more that he died for than that 501 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:18,320 ultimately, Christ died for God. We have heard the gospel 502 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,080 presented as God's answer to human problems, and it is. 503 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:25,000 It absolutely is. But first and foremost, it is 504 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,120 God's answer to a divine problem. 505 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,440 It's God's vindication and declaration of his glory, God 506 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,880 demonstrating his justice and his righteousness. 507 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,880 And this is what drove Jesus to the cross. 508 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,560 The glory of God drove Jesus to the cross. 509 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:43,240 John 12, verse 27 and 28 says, This is Jesus speaking. 510 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,320 Now my soul is troubled. And what shall I say, Father? 511 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:51,480 Save me from this hour. No, it was for this very reason 512 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:55,360 I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name. 513 00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:58,880 So why did Jesus go to the cross? 514 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,920 To save you and I from our sins, Yes. 515 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,880 We say things like you and I were on the Savior's mind when 516 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,880 we went to the cross, and I believe that's part of it. 517 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,040 Absolutely. The Father was on the Savior's 518 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:18,840 mind while he was on the cross, and that is good news for us. 519 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,680 Christ died for God, and us remember the holiness of God. 520 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,600 Otherwise we'll never grasp that significance of the cross. 521 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,680 Second key to understanding the magnitude of Matthew 26 and 27. 522 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,520 We must remember the holiness of God, and we also must tremble at 523 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,560 the horror of the wickedness at that time. 524 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,560 We see that here, one writer said. 525 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:41,920 And I've tried to summarize the wickedness. 526 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,800 I'm sorry. I've tried to summarize the 527 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,400 wickedness of man on display and different people at different 528 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,480 times during this scene, doing different things to the Son of 529 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,280 God. So during this scene we see the 530 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:59,080 Jewish leaders rejecting, arresting, accusing and judging 531 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:03,440 the Son of God and they crucify him. 532 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,280 Maybe one of the most telling sentences in all that we just 533 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:12,880 read is in Matthew 26 verse 63. It says this is where the high 534 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,160 priest is sitting on judgment upon Jesus. 535 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,520 And he says, I put you underoath by the living God. 536 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,640 Tell us if you were the Christ of the Son of God. 537 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,280 Jesus said, it is as you said. Nevertheless, I say to you, 538 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,520 hereafter you will see the Son of man sitting at the right hand 539 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,400 of power and coming on clouds of heaven. 540 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,960 That is quite a statement from Jesus. 541 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,280 Jesus is saying you're sitting in a judgment seat right now 542 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,640 judging me, but there will be a time where I'm going to be 543 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,320 judging you. And that pushed that high priest 544 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,760 over the edge. He tore his robes and said he 545 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:45,720 has uttered blasphemy. What is his judgment? 546 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:49,280 And the Jewish leaders answer and said he deserves death and 547 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,360 they spit in his face and they struck him. 548 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,160 Jewish leaders judging the very Son of God. 549 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,640 Additionally, Roman leaders sentencing and crucifying the 550 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,280 Son of God. He is taken to Roman leaders, 551 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,720 the pilot, where he is where we see them sentencing and 552 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,920 crucifying the Son of God. Pilate tries Jesus. 553 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,880 In a response the crowds. He gives the crowd the option of 554 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,000 either releasing Barabbas, a murderer, or Jesus to them. 555 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:20,240 And the crowds want Barabbas released and they want Jesus 556 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,320 crucified. Pilate, of course tried as we 557 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,880 read, tried to absolve himself from the responsibility. 558 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,080 But there's no question that Responsibly was on his hands, as 559 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:32,680 well as the Jewish leaders hands as he released them for them. 560 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,840 Barabbas and having scourge Jesus delivered him to be 561 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:40,160 crucified. The soldiers, the Roman 562 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:46,440 soldiers, stripping, scourging, mocking, beating and spitting on 563 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:51,000 the Son of God. Which leads to one of the most 564 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,120 horrible scenes that we can picture in our mind. 565 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:58,720 Taking the dreaded whip of bone and or lead bound into leather 566 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,440 thongs, lashing the victim's body into a bloody pulp. 567 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,880 The horror of wickedness as they twist a crown of thorns into his 568 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:08,159 head, put a scepter in his hand and a robe around his neck, 569 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,360 around his naked body and bowing down a mockery, saying this is 570 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,920 the king of the Jews. Then they spit in his face more 571 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,440 and they led him away to the cross, the most degrading way to 572 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:23,920 die, one writer said. The crucifixion was unspeakably 573 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:27,120 painful and degrading. Whether tied or nailed to the 574 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,000 cross. The victim endured countless 575 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,639 peroxiums as he pulled with his arms and pushed with his legs to 576 00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:36,440 keep his chest cavity open for breathing, and then collapsed in 577 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,760 exhaustion until the demand for oxygen demanded renewed. 578 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,920 Peroxiums, the scourging, the loss of blood, the shock from 579 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:48,040 the pain all produced agony that could go on for days, ending at 580 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:52,080 last by suffocation, cardiac arrest or loss of blood. 581 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,840 When there was no reason to hasten to death, the execution 582 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:57,840 squad would smash the victims legs. 583 00:34:58,680 --> 00:34:59,880 Death followed. Almost. 584 00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:03,800 Immediately, either from shock or from the collapse that cut 585 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:08,960 off breeding, the crowds ridiculing, reviling and 586 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:13,240 shouting at the Son of God, all this was taking place. 587 00:35:13,240 --> 00:35:16,360 The clap, the the the crowds were doing this, They were 588 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,560 saying, and you should destroy the temple and bring it down in 589 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,760 three days. You need to save yourself if you 590 00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,040 are the Son of God. Come down from the cross. 591 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,520 They derided him. They were wagging their heads 592 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:28,960 and yelling at him, the text says. 593 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,760 But sadly it wasn't of course, just the crowds. 594 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:36,480 It was also the disciples we see in the middle of all this. 595 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,280 What was potentially the most disheartening were the disciples 596 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:43,480 betraying, denying, disobeying, scattering, and deserting The 597 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,920 Son of God, Judas, Peter and others, after three years of 598 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:51,040 walking in with him, are now just walking away from him, 599 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:59,240 deserting him. When you think of this scene of 600 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:04,400 Jesus and everybody just turning their back on him, who do you, 601 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,440 who do you identify with the most? 602 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,600 Do you identify with being Peter, weeping as you realize 603 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:15,920 the magnitude of your denial of Christ, Simon of Sirene, caring 604 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,720 in Jesus cross for him? Were you the women who stood at 605 00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:21,680 a distance watching those things? 606 00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:27,120 Were you Mary standing at the cross looking up at her son, the 607 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:30,560 thief, asking Jesus to remember him and his Kingdom? 608 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:36,400 The centurion who, after Jesus died, shouted out truly this man 609 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:42,200 was the Son of God. I think I would identify most 610 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:47,000 with the crowd shouting crucify him. 611 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:53,200 The old spiritual asked, Were you there when they crucified my 612 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,440 Lord? And the answer is yes. 613 00:36:55,440 --> 00:37:00,000 We were not as spectators but as participants, guilty 614 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:04,000 participants, plotting, scheming, betraying, bargaining, 615 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,960 and handing him over to be crucified, another writer said. 616 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:13,960 Until you see the cross as that which is done by you, you will 617 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,520 never appreciate that it is done for you. 618 00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,760 A Scottish hymn writer wrote, twas I that shed, shed the 619 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,800 sacred blood. I nailed him to the tree. 620 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:29,200 I crucified Christ of God. I join the mockery of all that 621 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,200 shouting multitude. I feel that I am one, and in 622 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,000 that den of rude voices, rude, I recognize my own. 623 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:39,080 Around the cross the throne I see mocking the sufferers groan, 624 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:43,360 yet still my voice. It seems to be as if I'm mocked 625 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:48,200 alone. When we read Matthew 26 and 27, 626 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,840 we have reverence for the humility that Christ had, the 627 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:57,000 most humble man in the most humble situation. 628 00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:04,720 In those verses, in those two chapters, we need to understand 629 00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:09,560 actually what is happening below the surface with what Jesus is 630 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:12,520 dealing with internally. Spiritually. 631 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,600 We got images of the cross that we may have seen in our minds. 632 00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,920 You know, we have pictures in our minds of what the cross is. 633 00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,480 But what makes the cross significant is not ultimately 634 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,920 the physical things that come to our mind. 635 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:29,760 What makes the cross significant is the spiritual realities that 636 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:34,400 are are all coming together to this point, the most important 637 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:40,320 point in all of history. And if we think and there are 638 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,520 depths that we're, you know, they're to be explored and 639 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,480 uncovered. And if we've tried to depict the 640 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,360 depth of what's happening here, there's there's three words 641 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,360 based around these key events that we just read about the 642 00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,160 Lord's Supper. We read about the Garden of 643 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,160 Gethsemane and Jesus's cry from the cross. 644 00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:57,680 And there's three words that I want to go over that deal with 645 00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,920 this. The first one is substitution. 646 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:07,280 Jesus died are death. The first keyword is 647 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,040 substitution. Scripture is clear from the 648 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,480 start. The payment for sin is death. 649 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:18,640 Yet Jesus had no sin. So why are we reading about 650 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:25,000 Jesus's death if he had no sin? We see him dying in our place 651 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,680 there in chapters 26 and 27. And he tells his disciples this 652 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,360 when he institutes the Lord's Supper, Matthew, 2626, through 653 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:34,920 29. And as they were eating, Jesus 654 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,800 took bread blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, 655 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,480 and said, take ye, this is my body. 656 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,280 Then he took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them, 657 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,800 saying, drink from it, all of you, For this is my blood of the 658 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,840 new covenant, which is shed for many of the remission, remission 659 00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,680 of sins. But I say to you, I will not 660 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:55,320 drink of this fruit of the vine from now until that day when I 661 00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:57,240 drink it new with you and my Father's Kingdom. 662 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,360 Jesus is celebrating the Passover feast meal with his 663 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,880 disciples. A meal that was every year 664 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,360 remembering the day in Egypt when the all the Israelites 665 00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:09,800 homes took an innocent lamb and slaughtered it. 666 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:14,360 They put the blood of the lamb above the doorposts at each 667 00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:18,840 house when they were where they were doing this Passover meal so 668 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,800 that when God, in a judgment and sin came to each Israelite, each 669 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,000 Egyptian home, any home that did not have the blood over the 670 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:30,160 doorpost would see the first born son in that home die. 671 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:35,200 It was the night when God provided the lamb, provided the 672 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:39,680 blood of a lamb, a substitute sacrifice to save his people 673 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,480 from the payment of sin. And every year they would 674 00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:45,600 celebrate this meal. Every year that's the Passover 675 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,680 meal. They would take the lambs to the 676 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,160 temple. They were to be slaughtered and 677 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:52,120 the blood would spill out and they would gather together in 678 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,440 their homes. Remember that night, and it's a 679 00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,760 backdrop. Jesus says my blood will be 680 00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,680 poured out for many. For the forgiveness of sins. 681 00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:06,680 Jesus is the Passover lamb. We see that in Exodus 12 who 682 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:11,200 saves us with his blood, so that when God had in His wrath and 683 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,240 judgment comes free to you and me. 684 00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:18,480 If we hide under the blood of a substitute sacrifice, which is 685 00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,480 Jesus, the Lamb of God, we are saved. 686 00:41:22,720 --> 00:41:25,960 He is the Passover lamb who saves us with his blood, and he 687 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,680 is the covenant keeper. And we see that in Exodus 24, 688 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,440 who seals us with His blood, Jesus says, this is my blood of 689 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,840 the covenant. And this is the only time in the 690 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,320 entire book of Matthew that we see the word covenant. 691 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:42,120 So what does that word covenant mean? 692 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,800 We go all the way back to Exodus 24, where God had given his 693 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,360 people, which were the Israelites, his law on the mount 694 00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:53,880 on Mount Sinai, and he entered a covenant with those with the 695 00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:59,000 Israelites through blood. Exodus 24 verse 8 says Moses 696 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,920 took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said this is the 697 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,160 blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in 698 00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:09,120 accordance with all these words, and is the picture not only of 699 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:12,160 God's forgiveness of his people, but his binding of his people to 700 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:13,880 himself in a relationship with Him. 701 00:42:14,720 --> 00:42:18,000 So that's the picture here in the New Covenant, sealed not 702 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,320 with the blood of an animal, but sealed with the blood of the Son 703 00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:27,080 of God Himself, Jesus himself. He is our substitute sacrifice. 704 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:31,240 He died the death we deserve to die so that before the cross 705 00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:33,080 we're we're headed to eternal death. 706 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,120 Before Jesus died, that's where our destination was. 707 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,960 But because of the cross, we now have the opportunity for eternal 708 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,960 life. Substitution. 709 00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:46,960 Jesus died our death. Second word, propitiation. 710 00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,720 We read it earlier in Romans 325. 711 00:42:50,720 --> 00:42:55,160 God put forward Christ Jesus as a propitiation by His blood. 712 00:42:55,240 --> 00:42:59,040 So what does that mean? The word propitiation literally 713 00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:03,480 means one who turns aside wrath by taking away sin. 714 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,640 And that word only makes sense when we understand all the 715 00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:11,680 things we have already covered. God is holy just in all of His 716 00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,200 wrath, and we are sinful, deserving of His wrath. 717 00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:19,200 And so when Jesus went to the cross, he endured that wrath 718 00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:24,280 that we all deserve. That is the key to understanding 719 00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:28,200 the cross. What is happening to Jesus here 720 00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:30,480 is what we deserve. We go to. 721 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:34,440 If you go to Matthew 26 and verse 39, Jesus is in the garden 722 00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,600 of Gethsemane, Gethsemane preparing to be betrayed, 723 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,800 arrested, and eventually eventually crucified. 724 00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,640 And what does he pray? He prays. 725 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:46,160 Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me 726 00:43:46,720 --> 00:43:49,040 nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. 727 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:54,960 So that begs the question, what is this cup? 728 00:43:55,480 --> 00:44:00,640 In that passage? We need to realize that the cup 729 00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:04,040 of the cross is not primarily physical suffering that Jesus 730 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:07,320 went through. It's really comes down to 731 00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,080 spiritual suffering that Jesus is going through at this time. 732 00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:16,080 Psalm 75, verse 8 says In the hand of the Lord is a cup filled 733 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,600 full of foaming wine mixed with spices. 734 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,840 He pours it out and all the wicked of the earth drink it 735 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:30,560 down to its very dregs. Isaiah 51, verse 17 says, Awake, 736 00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:33,200 awake, Rise up. O Jerusalem, you have drunk from 737 00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:37,560 the hand of the Lord the cup of His wrath, you who have drained 738 00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,760 to its dregs the goblet that makes men stagger. 739 00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:44,760 Also you get down to verse 20 through 23 of Isaiah 51. 740 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,400 They are filled with the wrath of the Lord and the and the 741 00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,400 rebuke of God. Therefore hear this You 742 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,120 afflicted one make drug, but not with wine. 743 00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:56,120 This is what your sovereign Lord says, your God who defends His 744 00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:59,400 people. See, I have taken out my out of 745 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,880 your hand, the cup that made you stagger from the cup, the goblet 746 00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:05,280 of my wrath. You will never drink again. 747 00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:09,920 Also in Jeremiah 20. Five Verse 15 This is what the 748 00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:11,880 Lord of the God of Israel said to me. 749 00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,400 Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my 750 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:19,280 wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it. 751 00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:22,840 When they drink it, they will stagger and go mad because the 752 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:27,200 sword I will send among them, the cup in Scripture here is a 753 00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:31,160 reference to God's wrath, the wrath of God. 754 00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:34,160 We see that later also in Revelations 14 verse 10. 755 00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:37,440 It talks about those who drink the wine of God's fury, which is 756 00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:39,960 poured full strength into the cup of His wrath. 757 00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,920 When we see Jesus is when he's sorrowful here or troubled here 758 00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:48,120 in the garden, we need to realize that Jesus is not being 759 00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,440 a coward towards the Roman soldiers at all. 760 00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:55,320 He is not worried about the Roman soldiers one single bit. 761 00:45:57,720 --> 00:46:01,400 He was actually worried about experiencing the divine wrath 762 00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:04,320 that God the Father was going to bestow upon him to take on our 763 00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,920 sins. And when Jesus went to the 764 00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:13,680 cross, that full cup of wrath of God do your sin and mine was 765 00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:19,040 poured out upon the Son of God. And at the cross God expressed 766 00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:22,920 his full judgment upon sin. At the cross God endures himself 767 00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:26,280 his full judgment against sin. And at the cross God enables 768 00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:31,920 free salvation for sinners throughout all human mankind, 769 00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:36,120 all because of His propitiation. He endured the wrath of the 770 00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:39,200 Father that we might experience the love of the Father. 771 00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:45,320 Third word here reconciliation. This one is based on Matthew 27 772 00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,480 verse 46. It says now from the 6th hour 773 00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:51,960 until the 9th hour there was darkness over the all the land. 774 00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,360 And about the 9th hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice 775 00:46:55,360 --> 00:47:00,000 saying Eli Eli Lama Sabatani that is my God, my God, why have 776 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:03,840 you forsaken me? What does it mean when when 777 00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,760 Jesus cried out my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 778 00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,600 It means reconciliation. And follow this with me. 779 00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:16,080 I'll get to my point here. This is not a cry of unbelief or 780 00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,000 confusion or despair that Jesus has on his mind. 781 00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,040 Jesus is not doubting God the Father. 782 00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,440 He is not confused about what is happening. 783 00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:28,560 Jesus is not asking why is this happening to me, God, why are 784 00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:31,400 you doing this to me? As if he doesn't understand. 785 00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:34,120 Jesus understands everything that is happening. 786 00:47:34,240 --> 00:47:38,400 At that point. He knows what's going on. 787 00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:41,320 He actually foretold that moment when he was will. 788 00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,280 At that end he was willing instead. 789 00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:51,320 This cry is physical agony, spiritual anguish, relational 790 00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:55,600 alienation. It's a quote from Psalms 22 and 791 00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,000 understanding that Psalm is the key to understanding that cry. 792 00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,640 We don't have time to to read everything there, but we'll just 793 00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:05,360 quote some of the verses to you in verse 14 of Psalms 22. 794 00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:09,440 It says I am poured out like water and all my bones are out 795 00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,760 of joint. My heart has turned to wax. 796 00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,040 It is melted away within me. My strength is dried up like a 797 00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:18,640 pot shirt and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. 798 00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:21,880 You lay me in dust of death. Dogs have surrounded me and 799 00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,600 band. A band of evil man has encircled 800 00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:27,000 me. They have pierced my hands and 801 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:30,840 my feet. It's also a cry of spiritual 802 00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:32,560 anguish, just like we were talking about. 803 00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:37,320 Jesus is not is not now not anticipating God's wrath. 804 00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:39,480 He's now experiencing God's wrath. 805 00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:45,520 At this moment, it's also a cry of relational alienation. 806 00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:48,800 God is Jesus is experience experiencing in a way that I 807 00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:52,520 don't fully understand, Alienation from not only his 808 00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:54,880 friends, but from God the Father as well. 809 00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:01,080 It's the curse of the cross. 2nd Corinthians 521 says God made 810 00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:05,080 him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might 811 00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:10,400 become the righteousness of God. Before the cross, we were cast 812 00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:14,240 out of God's presence, cut off from his favorable presence, 813 00:49:14,240 --> 00:49:16,760 separated from his love and his mercy and his goodness. 814 00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:21,480 We were alienated from God. But now, because of the cross, 815 00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:26,680 because of what happened on that day, that event, we are now 816 00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:30,960 invited into the presence of God through only Jesus. 817 00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:38,560 Because what he did on that day, right after the cry on the cross 818 00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,040 that Jesus let out, Matthew writes that the curtain of the 819 00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:47,320 temple was torn into top to bottom, not a single thread left 820 00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:51,600 connecting the two, and that is absolutely significant. 821 00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,880 The barrier separating man from God was ripped away by God so 822 00:49:54,880 --> 00:50:01,160 that all the deserving sinners of hell could be welcomed safely 823 00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,120 into the presence of God through Jesus. 824 00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:10,080 So do we see how why the cross, what Jesus did on the cross is 825 00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:15,760 so significant? You and I can't dream that stuff 826 00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:19,040 up. Smartest man in the world can't 827 00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:23,200 dream that stuff up. Yet the God of the universe 828 00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:29,280 provided a way for you and I to have a relationship with him, to 829 00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:32,760 be have a hope of heaven with Jesus one of these days. 830 00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,480 What is happening here is so much more than just a nearly 831 00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,720 naked man dying on a wooden post on the side of the road in a 832 00:50:38,720 --> 00:50:42,480 nondescript part of the world. This is the holy God of the 833 00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:45,160 universe giving his Son to die our death, endure our 834 00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:47,720 condemnation, and suffer our separation. 835 00:50:47,720 --> 00:50:50,960 That is so that that us wicked sinners can be declared 836 00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,080 righteous when we come into God's presence. 837 00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:56,400 All of history revolves around this scene. 838 00:50:56,720 --> 00:50:59,080 We count time by what happened on that day. 839 00:50:59,720 --> 00:51:06,400 Around that time, our year 2023, we counted because of that event 840 00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,960 in time. So surrender our hearts to God. 841 00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:12,680 Follow Him. Turn from turn from our sinful 842 00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:16,080 ways. Believe what Jesus has done for 843 00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:17,640 us. Believe in His gospel. 844 00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:23,000 Repent, change our path. Confess Jesus as the Son of God 845 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,280 and be baptized for the remission of your sins. 846 00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,560 We thank you for listening to our podcast put on by the Church 847 00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:34,040 of Christ at 2215 Plans Rd. in Bakersfield. 848 00:51:34,720 --> 00:51:38,200 If you would like any additional information or you would like to 849 00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:41,160 receive a free Bible correspondence course by mail, 850 00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:47,200 please e-mail us at info@churchofchristbakersfield.com. 851 00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:53,160 Our service times are Sundays at 10:30 AM and 5:00 PM and 852 00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:57,600 Wednesdays at 7:30 PM. Please make plans to join us. 853 00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:00,240 We would love for you to be our honored guest.