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F260 Series - Readings and verses

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

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.

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

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 -

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

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.

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 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 -

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

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But a couple of verses after that we see this:

This stone being Christ, the Cornerstone!

Later we see in

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 -

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.