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THE THREE PARTS OF CALVARY

The Top Three Church Services That Has Increased Church Attendance Are:

1. Easter

2. Mother’s Day

3. Christmas

It is a known fact that church attendance will increase for those particular services then any other.

From a pastor perspective it might be the only chance to share the gospel to the lost.

I’ve been pastoring this church for nearly three years, this church has had it’s ups and downs, good times and bad times, happy days and sad days, but I can promise you, We have never strayed from preaching the gospel, or change our doctrine, or changed our stance to get people to visit our church.

We preach the true and only gospel: The Death, The Burial, and The Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This Easter Service is extra special to me, because today I will be Baptizing my youngest daughter, my baby girl.

Three weeks ago my little girl accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her personal savior.

Baptizing her on the day Jesus raised from the dead has a new meaning for me.

Because of our Lord Jesus Christ selfless sacrifice of His Precious Blood on the Cross of Calvary, I get to spend eternity with my baby girl.

This is what Easter is all about.

Not Easter bunnies, colored eggs, chocolate candy.

It’s about the Blood Sacrifice of the Lamb of God.

This morning I would like to share with Three Parts of Calvary.

The Promise of Calvary.

The Prophecy of Calvary.

The Fulfillment of Calvary.

I.

The Promise of Calvary.

We can find the promise of Calvary in the book of Genesis.

This is where it all began.

It starts off when God created man.

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God gives man a commandment.

Genesis 2:

Let’s look at a few things in these two verses.

We see God’s commandment not to eat of the Tree of Good and Evil.

Genesis 3

We see the result of disobeying God.

Death.

There are two types of death that is being addressed.

Spiritual Death - The separation from God, because of sin.

Physical Death - is when our flesh dies and our conscious soul separates from the body, also a result of sin.

Roman 12:

Because of sin we have an appointment with death

Hebrews

Sin entered the world through men.

Genesis 3:6-

We can see the results of sin.

Genesis 3:8-

We see three things about sin in these seven verses

Shame - When you sin

If you have any kind of a conscience,

You will feel a since of shame.

The Blame Game -

Not taking responsibly for your own actions.

When you sin, most blame other for their sins.

Separation from God - Because of sin,

The blame game.

We lost our relationship with God.

Now we see God’s Promise of Calvary.

Genesis 3:

I want to break this verse down for you.

is known as the First Messianic Promise.

Which means the Promise of a Messiah.

A Saviour.

This verse is also known as the Protoevangelium.

Taken from the Greek word (Proto) meaning First.

(Evangeliun) meaning Good News or the Gospel.

Put it together you get (The first announcement of the Good News or the Gospel.

Before the fall of man, God walked and talked to man.

After the fall of man, we were separated from a personal relationship with God.

Lets break down

We needed, a bridge to get back to that personal relationship we lost with God before the fall.

Lets break down The Protoevangelium, (the Promise of Calvary)

Verse 15 tells us that Satan is our enemy.

He will do anything he can to get us to follow evil.

Satan hates God!

The Phrase “Thou (Satan) shalt bruise his (Jesus) heel”

Refers to Satan’s repeated attempts to defeat Jesus Christ during His life on the earth.

Before Jesus started His ministry, Satan tempted Jesus three time.

The Phrase “It (Jesus) shall bruise thy (Satan) head”

It foreshadows Satans defeat when Jesus Christ rose from the dead in VICTORY OVER SIN.

A bruise to the heel is not deadly, but a strike to the head is.

We can see God revealing His plan of Calvary in verse 15.

To defeat Satan.

Offer Salvation to the world, the Protoevangelium, the Good News, the Gospel

Through His Son, Jesus Christ, the Messianic Promise, the promise of a Messiah, a Saviour.

II.

The Prophecy of Calvary.

Isaiah 53:1-12

This chapter of the Bible sums up what happens in the Four Gospels.

Genesis give us the Promise of Calvary.

Isaiah give us the Prophecy of Calvary.

And now we’re going to see the Fulfillment of Calvary.

III.

The Fulfillment of Calvary.

Let’s look at the Fulfillment of Calvary.

As we look at this section of this message.

I want you to picture theses events in your mind.

I want you to listen to the words, then I will continue on with the message.

Play “Watch the Lamb”

A. Last Sunday started what I call the Countdown to the Fulfillment of Calvary!

It started when Jesus entering Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, and within that Eight Day’s.

Jesus will be Arrested, Tried, Beaten, Sentence to Death, Died on the Cross, Buried, and Resurrected.

This morning I want us to visualize what took place within those Last Eight Day’s.

It’s important to know what Jesus did for us on that Cross of Calvary.

B. Let’s take a brief look in the chronological order of the Fulfillment of Calvary.