Kingdom Death
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Kingdom Death
Kingdom Death
Kid’s Takeaway of the day: Jesus died for me!
Verses of the day: Matthew 27:50 “50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.”
Main idea of the day: Jesus is obedient to the Father’s will and acts as the Salvific King as he dies for the sins of the world and is mocked by many. Creation testifies to the magnitude of the event.
Introduction:
The cross is the turning point in history. Throughout history mankind learns to exert his or her own will upon the world. The earliest known recorded epic is about a king named gilgamesh. In the tale, Gilgamesh is a partially divine hero, the king of Uruk who goes on epic adventures with his rival-turned best friend, Enkidu. After Enkidu is killed, Gilgamesh becomes obsessed with, and seeks to obtain eternal life. In the end he realizes that eternal life is only for the gods, and that he must be content with a legacy of what he has built and what he leaves behind. Different epic tales throughout history have attempted to give meaning to human life and to help the readers or hearers to learn something from the story, but nothing has changed history like the story of the death of God upon a cross in the person of Jesus Christ. This true story shows the creator of the universe dying at the hands of his creatures to redeem them from the mess they got themselves into by rebellion against Him, their true and rightful king. Jesus obtains complete victory, not through conquest, but death. Jesus shows us how to live, not by imposing your own will upon others, but surrendering to God the Father’s will for our lives. When surrendered to the Father’s will, Jesus showed that honor can come despite public shame, that torture can lead to eternal life. Jesus exemplifies that self-sacrifice, not self-promoting is the way to please the Father. Jesus walked out for us the perfect life, and it wasn’t just a life without sin, it was a life without I (sin) in the middle of everything. Let’s stand for the reading of God’s Word.
32 As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross. 33 And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull), 34 they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it. 35 And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots. 36 Then they sat down and kept watch over him there. 37 And over his head they put the charge against him, which read, “This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.” 38 Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left. 39 And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads 40 and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.” 41 So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying, 42 “He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ” 44 And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way. 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” 47 And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.” 48 And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. 49 But the others said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.” 50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. 51 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. 52 The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, 53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. 54 When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!” 55 There were also many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him, 56 among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. 57 When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. 58 He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. 59 And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud 60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away. 61 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb. 62 The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate 63 and said, “Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, ‘After three days I will rise.’ 64 Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last fraud will be worse than the first.” 65 Pilate said to them, “You have a guard of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you can.” 66 So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard.
How could the Son of God die and be crucified? That question may have fueled why many did not accept Jesus as the Messiah. Of course, the entire passion narrative is Matthew’s reply.
Rather than narrate everything from a singular perspective, Matthew gives us vignettes
Crucifixion Matthew 27:32-38
Crucifixion Matthew 27:32-38
21 They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
18 they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.
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.
Mocker’s Response Matthew 27:39-44
Mocker’s Response Matthew 27:39-44
The Gospel according to Matthew 2. The Crucifixion, 27:32–56
“If you are the Son of God,” then prove it by coming down from the cross. It is indeed blasphemy when mortals in this way dictate to the Son of God how he should exercise his divine sonship.
7 All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;
In fact, these sarcastic uses of “Son of God” contrast with the sincere confession to come in Matthew 27:54 and look back to the controversy over the title in Matthew 26:63. Another irony is the seeming absence of deliverance for a sufferer trusting God, but it was because something greater was being done. The theme Matthew was raising can be seen in Wisdom 2:12–20, where the wicked plot against the righteous man who claimed to be a child of God—they challenged him to be vindicated by God as a demonstration that the righteous one was who he claimed to be (France 2007, 1071).
Matthew The Crucifixion and Biblical Theology
Jesus’s kingdom is not built by the sword (
Creation’s Response Matthew 27:45-54
Creation’s Response Matthew 27:45-54
There was no mocking here, only foreboding lament
Since the day was reckoned from the sun’s rising, this was noon to three in the afternoon. The darkness pictures creation speaking of the tragic death of an innocent and the consequences of sin. It also reflects judgment imagery of the day of the Lord (Joel 2:2, 31; 3:14–15; Amos 8:9; Zeph. 1:15). This is creation “speaking,” a cosmic commentary.
Judgement language
15 A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
9 “And on that day,” declares the Lord God, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
2 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.
1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?
