It is Fulfilled

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Privileged to speak what I could argue is one of the New Testament passages that sums up this series - fulfilled which is why my title for the sermon is “It is Fulfilled”

Now you may ask, what is fulfilled…well you’ll have to stick through the sermon to find out.

First let me start with a question that will focus our attention.

Why did Jesus Die?

Some would say that Jesus was simply a good moral teacher - than the question still stands, why did He die?

Some say He was a political revolutionary - if that’s so why did He die?

Because if you have thought of Jesus as either of those, let me spoil something for you before we read, the man who runs Jesus trial finds no guilt in Him....and the Jews who put Him in front of the Romans so that He could be executed…said it was for much more than good teaching, or politics

Think about this question as we move on through our text today.

Let me answer that question through our main point

Our main point for today that I will prove to you through our text is this:

Here is our main point for today that I will prove to you through our text:

Jesus died in fulfillment of the Scriptures, to solve our greatest problem - sin.

If you are a note taker, let me give you our 3 points that I will use in order to prove that main point:

Jesus, the obedient Son

Jesus, the Kingly High Priest

Jesus, the Perfect Lamb

John 19:1–30 CSB

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers also twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on his head, and clothed him in a purple robe. And they kept coming up to him and saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and were slapping his face. Pilate went outside again and said to them, “Look, I’m bringing him out to you to let you know I find no grounds for charging him.” Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!” When the chief priests and the temple servants saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate responded, “Take him and crucify him yourselves, since I find no grounds for charging him.” “We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.” When Pilate heard this statement, he was more afraid than ever. He went back into the headquarters and asked Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus did not give him an answer. So Pilate said to him, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you know that I have the authority to release you and the authority to crucify you?” “You would have no authority over me at all,” Jesus answered him, “if it hadn’t been given you from above. This is why the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.” From that moment Pilate kept trying to release him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar!” When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside. He sat down on the judge’s seat in a place called the Stone Pavement (but in Aramaic, Gabbatha). It was the preparation day for the Passover, and it was about noon. Then he told the Jews, “Here is your king!” They shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?” “We have no king but Caesar!” the chief priests answered. Then he handed him over to be crucified. Then they took Jesus away. Carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called Place of the Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. There they crucified him and two others with him, one on either side, with Jesus in the middle. Pilate also had a sign made and put on the cross. It said: Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek. So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that he said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’ ” Pilate replied, “What I have written, I have written.” When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, a part for each soldier. They also took the tunic, which was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. So they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it, to see who gets it.” This happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled that says: They divided my clothes among themselves, and they cast lots for my clothing. This is what the soldiers did. Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home. After this, when Jesus knew that everything was now finished that the Scripture might be fulfilled, he said, “I’m thirsty.” A jar full of sour wine was sitting there; so they fixed a sponge full of sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it up to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then bowing his head, he gave up his spirit.

Open your Bibles to John 19

Before we begin, I need to first walk you through a bit of Old Testament so we are all on the same page

In the beginning God speaks all things into existence except mankind - mankind He fashions from the dust of the ground. And the first one made is named Adam. You could say that being first made He is the son (or child) of God.

God does not just make Adam but from Adam He makes Eve. Now in we see Adam’s disobedience against the command God gives not to take of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

As a result of Adam’s disobedience, sin and death enter the world, the ground is curse to produce now thorns and thistles along with plants, the labor is toilsome, and pain enters child birth.

This sin that is now in the world, becomes the main antagonist or enemy for the rest of the Old Testament up until our text. This sin which is a violation of God’s law, has the punishment of death that comes with it.

Now I wish I had the time to read this whole chapter in to you but for one I don’t have the time this morning but also, because of the bible reading plan we are walking through as a church, I know this week you will read this entire chapter regardless. So I want to point out a select number of verses here in the narrative and we will draw our points out from there

But overall, this process signified the first lamb dying for the people’s sin, and the second would take that sin out of the city to be “removed” from among them.

And this was the system. Adam’s disobedience brings sin into the picture, the High Priest position is created to go between the people and God as a mediator. He would offer the lamb which was the payment for the sin.

Before we begin in our first point, I haven’t read the entire chapter because our time is short today but if you take the time this week in reading this you will see John does something a total of 4 times in this one chapter, 2 of which we already read - used the phrase “That the Scripture might be fulfilled”

Also before I begin reading you will see John does something a total of 4 times in this one chapter, 2 of which we will read - the phrase “That the Scripture might be fulfilled” - so let’s check that out

1. Jesus, the Obedient Son -

John 19:1–7 ESV

Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.” So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!” When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.” The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.”

John 19:1–5 ESV

We see here right away the answer to our first question. Pilate claims to have found no fault at all in Jesus but the Jews state that He must die because “He has made Himself the Son of God.”

Now I need you to keep this in mind because I need to take us back all the way to to show us something

God does not just make Adam but from Adam He makes Eve. Now in we see Adam’s disobedience against the command God gives not to take of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

As a result of Adam’s disobedience, sin and death enter the world.

Now in there is 2 things I want to point out relevant in our text.

First in God promises, in the midst of the curses listed because of the Serpent’s temptation, that from Eve will come a son who will crush the head of the serpent, Satan, who tempted them into sin.

But we also see when God is listing the curses as a result of Adam’s that the ground is cursed because of him and it will produce thorns and thistle along with the plants.

We see a great many bad things result of the Disobedience of Adam, hard labor, cursed ground, pain in childbirth, sin and death to name a few.

Yet, look back at our passage, here in this seen we see Jesus, called the Son of God by the Jews who are trying to kill Him. Yet, unlike Adam, Jesus is found to be obedient to the Father, is found to be without any fault, and check this out…He is found to be wearing a crown of thorns!

Do you see it? The thorns and thistle which cursed the ground, Jesus takes on as a crown! Do we see how Jesus takes the sign of a curse and it becomes the sign now of a king!

“Behold the man!”

A king willing to do the hard thing, the hardest thing infact. To stand to undo that which disobedient Adam did. Where Adam was simply a man who was God’s child like you or I....we see Jesus God in the flesh. Both fully man and God, fulfilling the promise of standing now not in His rightful place, but rather in Adam’s place.....a place for you and I.

2. Jesus, the Kingly High Priest -

John 19:19–24 ESV

Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’ ” Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.” When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” This was to fulfill the Scripture which says, “They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.” So the soldiers did these things,

Now this point is going to be some fun. We see pretty, straight forward, Jesus designated (really to annoy the Jews) King of the Jews by a sign over-top of His cross and we see the soldiers gambling for His seamless tunic. John then says this moment was to fulfill Scripture and quotes a passage from Zechariah.

Yes, Zechariah is in fact a book of the Bible, one that most of us.....probably have never laid eyes on. For me, it is really one of my favorite Old Testament books.

Now to describe to you what is going on here, this seamless tunic is really important to this point. In God is describing the clothing that is to be worn by the High Priest.

SO if we remember what we said about Genesis and sin entering the world. Well the High Priest was a position created to be a mediator between God and His people. His job (amongst some other things) was once a year to offer a lamb as a sacrifice to cover the peoples sin. The High Priest would have to first cleanse himself before offering this sacrifice. He was the only one allowed to do this, and thus was the mediator between the perfect and holy God and a sinful people.

describes one of the articles of clothing worn by the High Priest. It was a tunic and God said it was to be seamless so as to not be torn, with a hole in the middle for the head to go through.

And yet we see Jesus, when He was present with Pilate dressed in what? A seamless purple tunic that the soldiers do not tear, but rather cast lots for. This tunic that Jesus was wearing is to show His role as the High Priest, who will go between us and God to mediate for us.....but wait there’s more

Yes this isn’t just the only place showing Jesus fulfilling the role of High Priest and even King.

Also Zechariah, before he gives a prophecy about this moment of Jesus garments being gambled for...

In , Zechariah see a vision of the High Priest Joshua standing before God but covered in filthy garments. God then removes those garments and says “Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with pure vestments.”

The garments representing His sin and then being clothed in God’s righteousness

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.

But a couple of verses after that we see this:

Zechariah 3:9 ESV

For behold, on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven eyes, I will engrave its inscription, declares the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.

This stone being Christ, the Cornerstone!

Later we see in

Zechariah 6:13 ESV

It is he who shall build the temple of the Lord and shall bear royal honor, and shall sit and rule on his throne. And there shall be a priest on his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.” ’

And we see in our passage in Jesus, clothed and fulfilling the role as a King and High Priest that He might make a once for all offer for sin. That in this one day, He will take away the iniquity of the land.

Can we not see how Jesus fulfills the role of Kingly High Priest on our behalf?

3. Jesus, the Perfect Lamb -

John 19:31–36 ESV

Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe. For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.”

Here again we see John write “that the Scripture might be fulfilled”

Now what is interesting about this Old Testament citation that John gives here, is that this one is not a prophecy regarding the Messiah.

You can check this out yourselves but this is a quotation from / regarding one of the Jewish Holidays - Passover the quote being from Passover but John also draws attention to another major Jewish holiday - the day of atonement

So to describe this let me take you back again through the Old Testament

After the disobedience of Adam and Eve, God then institutes for Adam and Eve and His people afterwards, the sacrificial system as a temporary means to deal with sin. One of the days that was important to this was the Day of Atonement. What this entailed was the people of God were to bring 2 spotless lambs to the High Priest, who after being cleansed himself, would take and slaughter the first lamb in the temple once a year. The second lamb would get blood from the first covered on it, and it would be cast out of the city. This process signified the first lamb dying for the people’s sin, and the second would take that sin out of the city to be “removed” from among them.

The people also did something similar during another holiday called Passover in which they remembered God bringing them out of the slavery of Egypt through the lamb slaughtered who’s blood covered their doorposts. The people, once a year during Passover who slaughter a spotless lamb, each household, and would have a dinner all the elements meant to remind of them of something specific regarding the Exodus. Now one of the key details regarding this lamb each household would slaughter is that is could not have any of its bones broken. It was to be a spotless, perfect lamb.

It is that exact section that John quotes and says that Jesus fulfilled. That He would die on the cross prior to the thieves He was hung beside so that in His death, no bone had been broken.

Do you see what John is doing? He has just set up the final moments of Christ, drawing our attention to 2 moments, the Passover Lamb and the Lambs of the Day of Atonement. John in includes the details in verse 20 that people could read the inscription because Jesus was “near the city.”

This means that Golgatha, the place of the Skull, the hill Jesus was taken to in order to die on, was outside the city but yet close enough people were coming to see. And then John shows that His bones were not broken. Not just that, do you remember one of the things Pilate said at the beginning.... “I find no guilt in Him” (end of verse 6). Here you have it, the guiltless lamb being taken outside the city to carry our sins far away....

Now my last little detail I want to note. And I think its important to wrap up this point.

John writes:

John 19:16–17 ESV

So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.

The key phrase here is “bearing his own cross.” How can He bear His own cross if no guilt was found in Him. Non guilty people do not carry their own cross because the cross was a death sentence for guilty people and yet Jesus has no guilt! How can John write carry His own cross when we know that John and the other authors of the NT would say Jesus carried our cross?

This is a detail again that ties into the OT. You see the 2nd lamb on the Day of Atonement was to be spotless right? Both lambs spotless, both taking part in the covering of sins that they played no part in. You see the both the Passover Lamb and the 2 Lambs of the Day of atonement had no guilt of their own. The lambs were not sinful as they have no will in order to violate God’s law thereby having sin (or guilt). The job of the lambs was to take on the guilt of the people as their own

Do you see it? How John has just set this scene to show that it is Jesus who is the perfect lamb. Whereas the lamb’s in the Old Testament may have been spotless they were not a perfect sacrifice, hence the need for it to be done yearly.

So when John says Jesus carried His own cross, in one sense it is absolutely not His cross because He was blameless. But in order for Jesus to fulfill the role of the Perfect Lamb, He must take on that which is not His own....He must carry our guilt, our sin, our shame to the cross for it to be dealt with.

Here’s how I want to bring this home.

But overall, this process signified the first lamb dying for the people’s sin, and the second would take that sin out of the city to be “removed” from among them.

I walked through all of this to show you something important....that the greatest challenge you would ever face - being made right with God is not something you can or have to do on your own.

I need you to see that Jesus has accomplished the work necessary for that to happen.

It takes a perfect man, a perfect person to be slaughtered in the place of sinners to be right with God. This is a thing which you and I could not and would not ever do. We might want to for ourselves but not for our enemies. And yet while we were God’s enemies, Christ died for us.

If you are in this room and you are a Christian, maybe you have had a rough patch lately and you have begun to walk back into a life of sin but now you want to come back to God but you think you are too dirty to approach Him. Listen the Perfect Lamb has already made you clean. Come to Him.

If you are in this room and you are not a follower of Jesus I say this:

Jesus made a statement earlier in His ministry that Rob covered a few weeks ago…if anyone would be a follow of Jesus He must take up His cross, die to self, and follow Jesus

If you are not a Christian and you are in this room thinking you can be good enough, you can do enough good deeds, or pray enough, or read the Bible enough to please God you are wrong!

So, much Like Pilate said “Behold the man.” It is this man who was perfect and made the payment for sin. I ask, instead of trying to earn it, lay your sin on Jesus and follow Him. He is the Obedient Son, He is the Kingly High Priest, and He is the Perfect Lamb - died for us that we might find life.

The beauty of this story is that Jesus did not stay dead but 3 days after our passage, Jesus rose from the dead. Victorious over the grave and He stands now to offer you - life.

I call to you, turn from your sin. All of us, lay your sin on Jesus the Perfect Lamb and follow Him.

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