Good Friday - 2019

THE BLOOD OF JESUS

Good evening, Justin, Pastor here

We gather tonight to REMEMBER and REFLECT on the Death of JESUS,

an event that has haunted, convicted, blessed, confused, Saved, or condemned everyone who is has ever lived

Known as Good Friday

one of the bloodiest days in all of history.

— What is the most blood you have ever seen? —

— Jesus Christ bled —

The Blood of Jesus

A man is betrayed and beaten

blood flows from his mouth & nose.

scourged with a flagrum

BLED PROFUSELY from his open wounds

crown of thorns gouging his skull causing deep lacerations which would bleed, blinding his eyes with red

SEVEN INCH IRON Spikes pounded splashing blood…flowing FREELY from the punctures wounds.

HUNG upon rugged and splintery cross labored for each breath would bleed extensively staining the wooden cross red.Jesus would have hung over a POOL of his own BLOOD.

Finally, the 12” blade of spear is thrust up under his rib cage puncturing his heart sack from which FLOW water and blood.

— Jesus bled and died. —

He DIED OF a LITERAL BLOODY & BROKEN HEART.

— Jesus Bled. —

Yet, what’s curious is we declare this to be GOOD NEWS

We celebrate this day as GOOD FRIDAY.

GOOD FRIDAY?

How can the gruesome & HORRIFIC death of a good man be declared GOOD NEWS?What does it mean that there is “redemption by the precious blood of Christ?”Why we gather here tonight to answer this question.How can good Friday be good?

BLOOD

To answer this we must talk ABOUT BLOOD and SIN.

The SHAME of SIN

The SUBSTITUTE FOR SIN

THE COST of SIN

THE ATONEMENT FOR SIN

If this topic makes you queasy and uncomfortable, NAUSEOUS

It’s supposed to.

We are to be UNSETTLED by the SIGHT of BLOOD.

When blood is seen outside the body

associated w/ suffering, pain, & death.

We naturally it troubling, horrifying, and disturbing.

Blood reminds us of our OWN MORTALITY

Reminds us of DEATH.

REMINDS US OF SIN bc it is sin that leads to death.

We are OFTEN HORRIFIED by DEATH, but are we as HORRIFIED by SIN?

What we feel when we see blood, is what God feels when we sin.

It’s what we should feel when we sin.

But we have become NUMB to SIN and it’s utter grotesqueness.

SIN always leads DEATH.

In the Beginning: The shame of sin

Adam & Eve - “In that day you shall surely die”

God’s First Sacrifice

Death did come that day, but not to them - A SUBSTITUTE

 “And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

He covered their SIN and SHAME

Passover Lamb: The Substitute for Sin

God’s people were instructed to slaughter a perfect 1 year old lamb

Blood Spread over the door posts

BY FAITHDeath would Passover

But death came to something that day, the LAMB, a SPOTLESS SUBSTITUTE

Sacrificial System: The Cost of sin

Moses God would institute the Sacrificial System as a way to deal with SIN

Because “ says that “without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.”ATONEMENT

The Day of Atonement: The Atonement for Sin

Priest confesses the sins of the nation

Two Goats

1st Goat - Sin OFFERING

2nd Goat - Scape Goat

This would happen AGAIN and AGAIN

PRACTICE OF SACRIFICE

Sacrifice of a lamb:

PRECIOUS:

Would have been RAISED & REARED

like a family petKids named, cared for it, played with it

COSTLY

Would be worth a lot of money

But purchased it for slaughter

Like your new car, or new iPhoneBring it into church and smash itYOU would take this innocent animal to be sacrificed for YOUR SINS.Take it to THE PRIESTYou would confess your sins over this animalEx) I lusted after people, I watched porn, I’m stolen money, I’ve been harsh, I’ve had sex with my boyfriend or girlfriendhard hearted, unloving, Perhaps after hours of confession, watch that animal STRUGGLE & FIGHTPriest SLIT the THROATBLEED out, it would TWITCH and cry outyou would CRY and WEEP outBecause OUR SIN caused DEATH and pain and weepingwalk away feeling the WEIGHT of our SINIt’s meant to be SHOCKING and GROTESQUE and HORRIFYINGHappened OVER & OVER & OVER again.“A river of blood flows out of the temple”Sin always LEADS to death.But it was always the DEATH of a SUBSTITUTE

NEVER ENOUGH

YEAR after YEARWHY?It was NEVER ENOUGHSomething More was needed. “For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.”

LAMB OF GOD

Jesus shows up and John immediately recognizes him and declares “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!Have you RECOGNIZED who JESUS ISHeb 9:26 “ [Jesus] has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.Jesus gives himself as the SACRIFICE FOR SINJesus’s DEATH in OUR PLACE for OUR SINSJESUS BLED FOR YOU

Jesus covers shame

It was JESUS who COVER OUR SHAME as did the ANIMAL SKINS OVER ADAM AND EVE

Jesus the Passover Lamb

Spotless, perfect, without SINThat our SIN would be PASSED OVER

Jesus the precious Son

IT was JESUS, the Son of God, that was MOST PRECIOUS to GOD, THE FATHER.Who would BE GIVEN in our PLACECOSTING him GREATLY

Jesus the eternal atonement

IT was JESUS who would make ETERNAL ATONEMENT FOR SINTAKING for full force of GOD’s RIGHTEOUS WRATH at the GROTESQUENESS OF SIN& CLEANSING US from all SINRev 7:14 “They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”

Jesus bled for you. For your sins.

Christ died for you. By “the blood of Jesus we are” Cleansed from all sin. ()Freed from SIN (:Justified before God () “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit1 Pet 2:24 “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.” “but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us…therefore, we have now been justified by his blood,”

HOW CAN THIS BE FOR ME?

1 requirement, 2 thieves & 3 questions

One Requirement: Believe

“29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” “37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.” For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” (ESV): For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Two Thieves

There was a THIEF to LEFT and RIGHT of Jesus:One of them RECOGNIZED who Jesus wasSINLESS Son of GodThe KINGS OF OF KINGSAnd CRIES OUT FOR MERCY & is SAVEDThe other DID NOT What SEPARATES THEMis it not literally CHRIST on THE CROSSWHICH ONE ARE YOU?In your heart do you mock Jesus, do you disbelieveOr do YOU BELIEVE & CRY OUT for MERCY

Three questions

Have you recognized Jesus, have you received the death of Jesus for the forgiveness of sins Have you been redeemed by the precious blood of Christ if not do it now, do NOT DELAYrespond

(CSB, NIV)

For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way endless pursuits of life inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold, temporary things like cash or credit 19 but with the eternal precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish, spot, imperfection or defect.

LETS CONTINUE IN RESPONSE