The Sacrifice of Christ
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Call to Worship
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4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
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30 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know, 31 for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.” 32 But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
He then reveals the very near future
He then reveals the very near future
We can look at section and once again learn something from the context.
Jesus knows the future, he explains in simply and clearly
The Doctrine of God Omniscience
It should now be obvious that the extent of God’s knowledge is universal. God controls the whole course of nature and history (see above and chaps. 4, 14, and 15) and controls everything by a wise plan (chap. 16). He is the “author” of the text of history (chap. 8). His wise plan constitutes knowledge—knowledge of everything, omniscience.41 His knowledge is just as extensive as his lordship. As we saw in the last section, his control, authority, and presence are universal and therefore presuppose universal knowledge.
Our confession of God’s omniscience is not based only on the above arguments. Scripture states it quite explicitly and often:
Great is our Lord, and mighty in power;
his understanding has no limit. (Ps. 147:5)
[Peter] said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.” (John 21:17; cf. 2:24–25)
For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. (Heb. 4:12–13)
For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. (1 John 3:20)
Application:
Application:
You can trust God with tomorrow, with your life, God is not surprised, God is a safe tower to draw to.
Jesus being the 2nd member of the trinity shares this with his father and is trustworthy with your life
Repetitions Observations:
Repetitions Observations:
God as a father in his love for us repeats his point so that we can get it. Jesus knows this being the son the very means by which we were created and so he repeats himself so that we can get it.
The 10 are repeated twice and then broken down throughout the old Testament. Some would argue that much of the OT is Israel repeatedly breaking the 10 and God constantly redeeming.
So like that we see in Mark the repetition of this truth that the son of man would die and be raised.
In Mark alone Jesus says this 3 times and then Mark records the crucifixion in detail for us.
Remember the audience here, this is the gentile nations that didn’t have the the Knowledge of the OT so they are getting this written down so that they can confirm what they have been taught by the eye witnesses that at that point are beginning to pass away. This is written so we can know that this event happened.
Application
Application
The Crucifixion of Jesus is one of the best attested events from antiquity. And so when you see repetition what you need to remember by application is that you can trust this text.
16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
So when you see the scripture repeat hear also in your mind.
Look at the Repetition
Look at the Repetition
This is not the first time that Jesus had made this comment
He said the same thing in Mark 8:31-33 and Mark 9:9
31 And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33 But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
9 And as they were coming down the mountain, he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
This isn’t a new point, but when God repeats himself He is wanting us to really pay attention to what he is saying.
The first one happens after Peter confesses Jesus as Lord. Our account today happens after the transfiguration and God the father says:
7 And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son; listen to him.”
In the first instance in the parallel account of Mark in Matthew
16 Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
This revelation of Jesus as the messiah is followed by Jesus’ teaching that he must suffer and die and then rise on the third day.
Who Jesus is is connected to what He does
Who Jesus is is connected to what He does
Repeatedly throughout the text when you find who Jesus is you are immediately connected to what Jesus does.
Jesus’s name literally mean Yahweh saves
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the entire history of the Christian Church is rooted in one central reality—the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
In our text Today he calls himself the Son of Man
Son of Man
Son of Man
The Titles of Christ reveal something to us and in this text Jesus uses it of himself linking it to his Crucifixion
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This title, ‘the Son of man,’ is given to Christ in the New Testament four score and eight times (88),
This Title shows :
His actual humanity
It shows his true humility, he could have exclusively called himself the son of God
It also shows the high praise and Honor the father has given the son in what he was to do
It also contradicts those that would say that Jesus was never actually in the flesh and it was a ghost or fabrication.
But it reveals that this nature of Jesus being truly man makes him the bridge between heaven and earth. He is Jacob's ladder
51 And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
The seed of the women incarnate. He is the path by which we can connect to God.
If the God man hadn’t taken on the nature of man you and I would be lost in our sins.
Why become a man
Why become a man
14 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. 16 For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham. 17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18 For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
Application:
Application:
1) For the men: Are you willing to suffer for your family? Are you faithful and merciful. Those two traits take strength. We can be this by help of the Holy Spirit if you call on God to do it. What would your life be like if you chose to be faithful and merciful?
2) To those that a experiencing hardship and life's sundry trials today look at this text with hope!
He can relate to your hardship, sufferings and glories!
Jesus was mocked, have you been mocked?
Jesus was tempted when he was all alone and no one was watching, have you been their?
Jesus was stripped down beaten and abused, have you been their?
Jesus was abandoned by his disciples and family, have you by friends and family?
Jesus by all accounts lost his stepfather Joseph, have you lost a loved one?
Jesus’s bride the church has been faithful and adulterous, have you been part of such?
Jesus had cheered on and experienced the victories, so have you and I.
Jesus was a warrior hunting out Satan and death as he set his face to fight them in Jerusalem, have you had to stare violence in the eye?
Jesus fought a battle that he should have lost and he won! Have you?
Our high priest and king understands our sufferings and even when we covered with the vileness of sin which makes us haters of God and men still shed his blood for us.
Suffer, Reject, and killed
Suffer, Reject, and killed
The Son of man was required to make what’s called the Penal Substitutionairy Atonement.
That’s theological terminology for taking upon his own body God’s full hatred of sin onto himself in our place.
I’m going to lay out what he did so that you can understand the weight of his actions and so if anyone asks you for why you believe you maybe able to defend it.
You could say that Jesus did 3 actions here
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First, That Christ took and bare our sins, God laying them on him. (Took them willingly)
Secondly, That he so took them as to undergo the punishment due unto them. (suffered the wrath, shame, and death)
Thirdly, That he did this in our stead.(Place)
To prove he took them willingly look at the text.
29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
He willingly took our place. Talk about God so loving the world. contemplate the merciful compassion of our saviour!
2. To Prove he received our punishment, the wrath we should have gotten
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Adam had sinned and that was death for him and his raise a punishment we all deserve
12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
He suffered the death we should have.
He took on the curse of breaking God’s law
26 “ ‘Cursed be anyone who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Hebrews 2:9 (ESV)
9 so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
He took the punishment we deserved.
He took our place
21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
He gave us by swapping himself for us his own righteousness
Application:
Application:
1. Love for us
1. Love for us
Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution Assurance of God’s Love
A penal substitutionary understanding of the cross helps us to understand God’s love, and to appreciate its intensity and beauty. Scripture magnifies God’s love by its refusal to diminish our plight as sinners deserving of God’s wrath, and by its uncompromising portrayal of the cross as the place where Christ bore that punishment in the place of his people. If we blunt the sharp edges of the cross, we dull the glittering diamond of God’s love.
So we are to do likewise and love one another with this kind of love.
2. Truthfulness of God
2. Truthfulness of God
A Second application is that by Christ saying he was going to do this and he did we can know that God is trurthfuk
Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution Confidence in God’s Truthfulness
In this way, the cross of Christ establishes that all of God’s word is true. If God refused to break his word in this most extreme of cases, we can trust him in every other situation. The torment of the cross stands as a monument to the unchanging truthfulness of God’s word:
4 For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness.
3. Legally Righteous
3. Legally Righteous
You are now covered in the righteousness of God. Think of it this way you’re clothed in Christ’s righteousness.
You’re legally declared sinless before God. The punishment has been met out for you, you can never experince God’s wrath
4. Gives a real understanding or our sin
4. Gives a real understanding or our sin
Look at the Last Verse
Look at the Last Verse
They were afraid, what he said had to sur them deeply inside, he would die!
Does his death cause you to fear, fear of wrath..
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