Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro

- Just finished the book of Galatians

o Looking forward to celebrating the resurrection of Jesus in just a couple weeks

o So as we lead up to that celebration, I want us to take an look at the life of Christ in the final days leading up to the resurrection

o Today we will be focusing on his time with the disciples in the upper room where they celebrated Passover

o Next Sunday we will focus on Jesus’s time in the garden along with his arrest and trial

o Then on Good Friday, I hope you can join us as we solemnly look as his death on the cross and why we can call such a terrible day “good”

o And finally ending with the celebration of his resurrection on Sunday!

- What an incredible story that has drastic implications for our lives

o Illustration- getting the details of a story from your kids- going to a fun event- Eliana about who she met and what they talked about- Landon just remembers what games he played and what he ate

o Most of the details we know about the life of Christ come from the gospels, Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John

§ Much like piecing together a full story from the parts of it my kids tell me, we can get an incredible and multifaceted account of Jesus’s life through a study of these 4 books

§ Each write from a different perspective and a unique focus

o When it comes to the story of the night Jesus was betrayed…

o 25% of John was focused on 5 hours

- The 3 other gospels give us an accurate picture of this time in the upper room, but it's almost as if they tell it from the outside looking in at Jesus.

through John's account we get to see Jesus's heart.

- Hour of crisis for Jesus and his disciples

- One thing I’m struck by as in this story is the difficulty that Jesus had gone through to get to this point and the suffering he knew he was about to face betrayal, abandonment, torture, and ultimately death

- Crisis, difficulty, suffering, it all seems par for the course in our lives, but as we look to the celebration of the resurrection and our theme, Hope in the Darkness, we see that there can be peace and joy and hope even when the trials come.

As we look at the life of Jesus, especially at this point in his life, we see a perfect example hope in the midst of darkness

Suffering Will Come- we live in a sinful and broken world

A. Suffering because of our relationship with Christ

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We are not of this world

a. 15:18-19 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

2. This is a way that we share in the sufferings of Christ

a. 15:21But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.

B. Suffering because of own choices

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Not only do we live in a sinful and broken world, but we are sinful and broken people

C. Suffering because of the choices of others

1. Betrayal

a. Judas

2. Denial

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