Broken
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Introduction
Introduction
St. Chapelle’s cathedral - 13th C. by King Louis IX.
15 massive stained glass windows (50 feet tall) a total area of 7,200 sq. ft of glass.
Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3
1,113 total scenes made up of these colorful pieces of glass.
These pieces that were broken apart and then put together with this level of precision and beauty.
Glass, broken and reformed into something glorious.
Today, we will stop and consider the events of Good Friday, the crucifixion.
Jesus’s brokenness created something glorious.
As we look at the different ways that Jesus was broken upon the cross.
Emotionally Broken
Emotionally Broken
vv. 27-32
The mocking - signs of Royalty.
Robe, Crown, Sceptre.
Bowing and crying out…
“They mocked Him” (v. 29).
Spitting, Striking, and Stripping.
The truth was corrupted.
Why did this matter to Jesus? His emotional connection:
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
Not just ignoring or rejecting - but those that He loved and was dying for were mocking Him. Not a person offense, but this extreme level of rejection.
Socially Broken
Socially Broken
vv. 32-44
Simon the Cyrene.
He paid a cost, forced to participate, His life forever branded.
Jesus, His clothing again stripped, became the winnings for the gambling soldiers.
Even those suffering the same fate, physically in proximity, rejected Him.
This is the great irony of v. 42.
To save, He must suffer.
This is why Jesus came.
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Spiritually Broken
Spiritually Broken
vv. 45-50
Darkness - Connection
“And on that day,” declares the Lord God, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
And what Jesus cries out, quoting from Psalm 22:1
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?
These words drawing the people to the remainder of that Psalm. A Messianic Psalm.
Feeling these words, but drawing strength by the message of that ancient hymn of hope.
All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;
“He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”
I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me;
they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.
For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations.
Misunderstood by some, calling out for the prophet Elijah.
And these words, calling out to His Father, is what preceded His death.
Jesus gave His all.
The Brokenness Healed
The Brokenness Healed
vv. 51-54
The broken Jesus of Isaiah 53.
Restoration of Relationship
v. 51
Restoration of Life
vv. 52-53
Restoration of Recognition
v. 54
His brokenness heals you.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Kahlil Gibran.
Out of something terrible, something glorious.
Jesus was broken for you.
