The Best, Worst Day Ever
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Just after the Seder, Jesus and his disciples depart to the garden of Gethsemane to pray. All but one....
After spending time in prayer, Jesus was betrayed by one of his closest friends and arrested.
The rest of his friends scatter and deny him.
He was then brought before Caiaphas, Herod, and Pilate in a series of trials.
Jesus was mocked, beaten beyond recognition. A crown of thorns was placed on his head, then driven into his head.
He was then marched up to Golgotha, carrying the cross beam of the very torture device that he was about to be executed on.
He was nailed to the cross, where his death would be slow, and agonizing.
It was at this point, that He became sin for us.
John 19:17-30
John 19:17-30
How sweet those words must have tasted.
When Jesus said this, he meant that all that He had come to do, had been completed.
Our idea of it being finished, when it isn’t really finished, we just don’t want to do any more.
What this statement tells us is that Jesus coming wasn’t pointless.
He had a specific purpose in mind, certain things that He had to complete.
These tasks took him around 33 years to do. But when he had done them, he made the decision to die. (Acts 13:29)
To Fulfill All the Prophets Had Spoken
To Fulfill All the Prophets Had Spoken
Luke 18:31
Crush the head of the devil
Crush the head of the devil
Genesis 3:15
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
This is to say that the effects of sin shall be reversed.
That Jesus will deal a death blow to the effects of Satan and will one day cast him into the lake of fire.
1 Corinthians 15:21-22
21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
We may have all been born spiritually dead after Adam. But just as he was the covenant head of the human race and all sin is passed down through him.
Christ is the new covenant head for all who believe in him through faith.
Through Jesus we can be made spiritually alive.
Jesus came to destroy the effects of sin for those who believe in him.
Bless all Nations through Christ
Bless all Nations through Christ
God spoke to Abram, thousands of years ago and told him that through him would be one who would bless the whole world!
Genesis 12:3
3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Talk about a legacy!
Through the blessing of God, the rest of the nations would be effected, because of his descendant.
Looking back now, we know and see this as Jesus!
Adopted
Adopted
All the nations of the earth, were not God’s people as Israel was.
But now
Romans 8:15-16
15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
The world now has the privilege, to come to God and call Him daddy, because of Jesus.
This was such a great thing that in Ephesians, Paul speaks of this as the great mystery.
What was hidden before but now revealed to all.
That all of the earth is blessed, through Christ.
When Jesus said it is finished. He had set up a redemptive system not just for Israel. But for the whole world.
Establish a Kingdom that shall not end
Establish a Kingdom that shall not end
Genesis 49:10
10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
The messiah will rule! The scepter shall not depart from Judah!
He will establish a kingdom that will never end.
His rule, will be for all times.
Obedience will come to him, from ALL people.
Luke 17:20-21
20 Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed,
21 nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”
The kingdom, is in your hearts.
It is in the way you conduct yourself with your family, in the work place. It isn’t a external kingdom.
Wherever the people are living in servanthood of the king, the kingdom is present!
Do you believe Jesus has authority right now?
God says that we will have to give account for what we say and do.
That sounds like a statement coming from someone who has authority!
If Jesus has authority, you should be living for His kingdom, obeying His laws.
Calling people in this world to submit themselves to the law of God.
Because they will have to give an account to the king when they die.
Jesus’ kingdom is the everlasting kingdom.
When Jesus came, he instituted that kingdom.
Be crushed, to make many righteous
Be crushed, to make many righteous
Have you thought about, realized how contrary this is to humanistic mindset?
The humanistic mindset says that I must be good to atone for the wrong doings.
All false religions have this in mind.
They must do something to atone for their sin. Not the bible.
Jesus had to fulfill all that was spoken of Him in the prophets.
Isaiah 53:10-12
Isaiah 53:10-12
The will of God was to crush him.
We know it’s God’s will becasue Jesus stated it again and again that He had to do the Father’s will.
Why was this the Fathers will?
v.10, to make an offering for guilt.
v.11, He shall bear their iniquities.
Jesus should bear our sins.
Here in the book of Isaiah, the plan of God being stated.
The messiah will be crushed, cut off, but not for himself. He shall do it for us.
v.12, not only did he bear the sins of many. Where is he now? He is making intercession for us!
To be the propitiation for our sins
To be the propitiation for our sins
Romans 3:25-26
Speaking of Jesus
25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Christ is the one who removes our sin.
This isn’t just a covering over that needs to be repeated time and time again.
This is a removal of the sin!
This is what The prophet Isaiah was pointing to and what Jesus needed to accomplish on the cross.
When Jesus is on the cross, making the statement that “It is finished.” He meant it.
Jesus had accomplished all that the prophets had spoken.
He had accomplished everything for our salvation.
Man was now reconciled to God.
With everything being in place, he made the decision to die, and willingly gave his Spirit.