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Going on a tour
Talking about the whole Christmas story on our Christmas light tour.
Had a great time on Friday night
I asked the men, “who did you witness to this past year?”
- how many people did I give a tour too?
Last, we talked about the faith that Jesus created when he both walked on water and lifted Peter back up into the boat.
Today, we move on to the story that any person, even if they are not a Christian, even if they only know about Jesus from pictures should know.
We come to the 3 crosses.
I say that every one should know because the symbol for Christianity is the cross.
The cross is more famous than the red target at target or the arrow for amazon.
Its what later Christians decided to use as their symbol because it’s marked with sacrifice.
Jesus told us often that he came to die.
Jesus knew what he came to do.
He told everyone his closest followers how it was going to happen.
They didn’t want it to happen.
Would you have tried to prevent Jesus from suffering, from dying?
It would seem good, natural, kind to try and help Jesus not have to die.
Yet Jesus came for a purpose.
He came to conquer sin, death and this could only be done in one way.
One woman I met shared with me why she became a Christian.
The big question holding her back was
Why did someone have to die for sins?
Why death?
From the very beginning the punishment for the very first sin would be death.
The Garden of Eden, the way sin enters the world, God draws a clear boundary, sin is so destructive, it can only be eliminated.
Yet where there is death there is no redemption and without death there is no justice.
God provided a system of animals that would die in place of us.
But the death of animals over and over never permanently changed anything.
It was a band-aid on the wound of sin in this world.
God would fix what was broken by our sin.
Only one sacrifice would take away the sins of all the people for all time.
The Son, the Christ, the chosen one to reunite us with God forever.
Reunite us because he was able to transform our relationship with God as one in which we were horrible sinners who could do no right, to those made right by him.
My friend understood it.
Death was necessary to pay for a punishment.
Jesus did it.
If your eyes glazed over come back to let me put this whole thing to you simply.
It goes back to a popular phrase,
“Hold My Beer”
I would say Hold My Diet Dr. Pepper but there is an internet saying in which someone says something can’t be done at all, or worse or better and then goes in there and does it exactly as it was said can’t be done.
Like no one can bake a meal for 20 family members who decide to show up in just two days for thanksgiving and then picture of grandma saying, “Hold My beer” and there being a beautiful spread.
Like someone saying no one can come back from 28 points down in the final 15 minutes of the Super Bowl and Tom Brady, quarterback of the New England Patriots says, “Hold My Beer” and goes and wins.
No one give Justice and restore humanity Jesus says to that,
“Hold My Water”
goes to the cross for your sins.
It’s one thing to say you would jump in front of a bus or a bullet for someone but Jesus didn’t say he would do that.
He said
He would suffer many things.
He would be rejected.
I get all hurt when someone doesn’t show up to a place I invited them to or when they say something mean about me.
Maybe you’ve been rejected by people.
You’ve had people refuse to be around you.
It sucks.
Jesus chose to suffer for us.
I would suffer for my children.
I have suffered for my children.
So many of us have gone through sleeplessness and much worse.
They are our flesh and blood.
God did this while we were still in the midst of our sin.
He was rejected.
He was also betrayed and knew he would be betrayed.
He chose to be rejected.
He chose to take on the pain of betrayal.
Betrayal is so hard.
So hard.
I know all of us will experience death of loved ones in life, as this is natural but I hope none of you experience the heart wrenching horror of betrayal.
Yet Jesus chose to be betrayed and then killed.
Rejected, betrayed, killed.
Jesus even shared the Last Supper with Judas, his betrayer.
Jesus washed Judas’ feet.
When Jesus walked on water, Judas was in the boat.
The disciples were ready to fight.
Peter was ready to kill for Jesus.
Yet Jesus ministry, his ultimate purpose was of sacrifice.
Just like he told all of us.
This would be an unfortunate story of one of the many, many people who have led rebellions in the Roman Empire, and throughout time.
It would just be about politics.
This is something so much much more.
Jesus came as a sacrifice.
He allowed himself to feel all that we have felt.
Rejection, Betrayal, but where most of us would fight back, this was the time when Jesus was allowing all this punishment, the punishment people try to give someone who has done wrong, he took it all
Do you ever look at those crime scene videos or pictures people put up about things that happen in Stockton.
Like Stockton Crime, News and Information.
Big thanks to Linda Scantling for putting up the Christmas Light Video there.
People will also post pictures of car wrecks.
Without knowing a thing about what happened, any investigation, in a matter of seconds posts pop up.
“Slow Down”
“Pay attention”
“Put the cell phone down”
“That’s what’s wrong with stockton to many people smoking and driving.”
Again all of this is written without any idea of what actually happened.
People criticize, reject, talk about, as a way to punish.
They also fight, hit, steal, attack, as a way to punish.
Betrayal is an act of punishment.
Jesus chose to take all the punishment on himself.
Matthew 27:35–46 (CSB)
35 After crucifying him, they divided his clothes by casting lots.
36 Then they sat down and were guarding him there.
37 Above his head they put up the charge against him in writing: This Is Jesus, the King of the Jews.
38 Then two criminals were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left.
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