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Use a little imagination.
Crucifixion was indescribably horrible, gruesome.
What it was meant to do was to put so much fear in the hearts of the populace when they saw someone crucified that they would swear to themselves that this would never happen to them.
This was the way of keeping the people in line.
It was the most excruciating form of execution that a twisted, tormented mind could devise.
And so here are these men there.
Jesus, we picture Him in the middle.
We picture the thief who rejected Him on one side, the one who ridiculed Him and cast slander at Him.
We picture the other thief over here on the right-hand side of the Lord Jesus.
And I want you to see him there with his gaping wounds.
I want you to feel as you can the throbbing pain, where every nerve in his body is a highway for the footprints of pain.
Perhaps he’s nauseous.
He is almost in shock.
There are flies in his gaping wounds.
His body is dehydrated.
His tongue is swollen.
He can hardly turn his head.
But he looks to Jesus and he says, “Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.”
() And Jesus, in agony and blood, takes time from dying to turn to this man, and Jesus said, “Verily”—that means “you can bank on it”—“I say unto thee, Today shalt thous be with me in paradise.”
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Now that’s the background for the study.
And I want us to see the theology that this man had, this dying thief, that caused him to say what he said to the Lord Jesus.
And I want you to see the result of that kind of theology.
Now, here’s the second theology I want you to see.
Not only do you see his theology of sin and the failure that condemned him, but I want you to see his theology of God and the fear that convicted him.
Look in verse 40: “But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God …?” () Now a good theology not only sees sin for what it is, but it sees God for who He is.
And He is a holy God who will punish sin.
A healthy fear of a holy God is the beginning of knowledge.
Now, here’s the second theology I want you to see.
Not only do you see his theology of sin and the failure that condemned him, but I want you to see his theology of God and the fear that convicted him.
Look in verse 40: “But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God …?” () Now a good theology not only sees sin for what it is, but it sees God for who He is.
And He is a holy God who will punish sin.
A healthy fear of a holy God is the beginning of knowledge.
Now when we talk about the fear of God, what do we mean by the fear of God?
Does that mean that we dread God? No.
• An electrician has a fear of electricity.
Now it doesn’t mean that he dreads electricity.
But he knows that when he’s handling those wires, he must be careful or he can kill himself.
A pilot has a respect for the power of gravity.
Jim Glover, an erstwhile pilot in our church, told me, “Pastor, there are two kinds of pilots: there are old pilots and there are bold pilots; but there are no old, bold pilots.” Now, what did he mean by that?
He meant that you have a healthy respect of gravity.
No pilot that I know of fears gravity.
But he knows that it can destroy him.
I have a respect for the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
Now when I’m going down the road, I see that car.
I do what you do: I look at the speedometer, you know, to check and see if I have somehow transgressed.
Now when I see a policeman, I don’t quake and tremble, because I have a pure conscience in that arena.
But I can tell you one thing: I have a healthy respect for the law.•
A. W. Tozer said this: “The fear of God is love on its knees.”
And he said this—and listen to me—“No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.”
Rogers, A. (2017).
Sound Theology.
In Adrian Rogers Sermon Archive ().
Signal Hill, CA: Rogers Family Trust.
Do you know what bothers me about our generation?
The one thing that we are missing most in America is the fear of God.
That is gone in America.
Now the Apostle Paul described a generation like this in , verse 18, when he said, “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
() And yet if you’re not a Christian, if you’re like this dying thief, you have so much to fear.
I hear people say, “Well, I don’t believe in using fear in religion.”
Do you know why you don’t believe that?
Because you think you’re smarter than Jesus.
Listen to what Jesus said in Matthew chapter 10, verse 28: “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”
() Listen to what the Psalmist said in , verse 11: “The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.”
() I had rather frighten you into heaven than to lull you into hell.
“The fear of the LORD”—“love on its knees”—“is the beginning of wisdom.”
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Rogers, A. (2017).
Sound Theology.
In Adrian Rogers Sermon Archive ().
Signal Hill, CA: Rogers Family Trust.
The Greek word means “one who uses violence to rob openly,” in contrast to the thief who secretly enters a house and steals.
These two men may have been guilty of armed robbery involving murder.
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Wiersbe, W. W. (1996).
The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 275).
Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
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This man knew that sin brought punishment.
This man knew that he was a sinner.
And he knew that his sin deserved and received judgment.
First of all, I want you to see this man’s theology of sin and the failure that condemned him.
Look in verse 39: “And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost thou not fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds.”
() This man knew that sin brought punishment.
This man knew that he was a sinner.
And he knew that his sin deserved and received judgment.
Now I want to say this: All good theology has a proper understanding of sin.
If you don’t have a proper understanding of sin, your theology is going to be skewed, because you, if you make a wrong diagnosis, it will follow as night follows day that you will never have the right and the proper cure.
This man had a theology of sin, and he knew the faults, the failures, that condemned him.
And that’s the reason he cried out to God for mercy.
Many people will never get saved, because they will never accept the fact that they are a sinner.
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