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Friday: The Death of Jesus Christ
Introduction- The sixth week of our Lent series, “The Week that Changed the World”.
Let’s see if you can recognize or decipher what these phrases are:
“It is very beautiful over there.”
– Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
“OH WOW.
OH WOW.
OH WOW.”
– Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
“Friends applaud, the comedy is finished.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
“Why should I talk to you? I’ve just been talking to your boss.”
– Playwright Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
“Mom, go get my shoes, I’m taking my walk with Jesus now.”
– Robert E. Quakenbush Sr., (Pastor Charlie’s grandfather) (1918-2003)
The last words someone says before they die are pretty significant.
Knowing that causes us to pause and think deeply.
This is definitely true of the last things that Jesus Christ said as He died on the cross.
The Lord Jesus Christ was crucified at 9:00 am in the morning on Friday of the Holy week, and hung there until some time after 3:00 pm.
Scripture records that he spoke or cried out 7 times while He hung there on the cross.
Jesus made 7 profound statements that are still powerful today nearly 2,000 years later.
This morning I want to briefly examine these 7 statements from the cross.
We will see what was most important to Jesus Christ when He died.
Jesus made 3 statements during the first 3 hours of the crucifixion.
The 3 statements show His love for people.
1. “Father, forgive them.”
Crucifixion was one of the most brutal and shameful forms of punishment.. Invented by the Phoenicians originally, and used by the Romans on slaves and criminals.
Mark's gospel says that it was the 3rd hour or 9:00 am in the morning when they crucified Christ.
Golgotha was in public view so that all coming in or out of Jerusalem would see those crucified, the punishment was on display for all to see.
Jesus is asking the Father to forgive those who were responsible for His death.
This was a very different response than the usual criminal gave.
People being crucified usually swore, and cursed those who crucified them, because of their great pain.
Jesus expresses his deep and abiding love for mankind, and even those specific men who have driven the nails.
He prays that they might be given further opportunity for salvation.
He is demonstrating exactly what he taught his disciples:
This highlights God's great love for us all.
Pilate, Herod and the religious leaders acted wickedly, it was all of our sins that nailed Jesus Christ to the cross.
Jesus gave His life for us, so that we might be forgiven.
Since He forgave those who crucified Him, He forgives us also.
2. "Today you will be with me in paradise.”
Jesus Christ died with 2 criminals.
He had associated with sinners during His life and now in His death he was with them again.
Shortly after He was nailed to the cross, people began to mock them all.
The religious leaders taunted Him to come down from the cross if He was the Son of God.
But Christ didn't answer them a word.
Scripture records that even the 2 men crucified with him began to mock Jesus also.
They asked Him to save Himself and them if He really was the Christ.
But as one of the thieves watched Jesus Christ silently suffering, he realized what it all meant.
The man understood that their punishment was just and deserved.
They had broken the laws of men and of God.
They totally deserved their punishment.
However the Lord Jesus Christ was innocent and did not deserve to die.
I believe that it was the witness of Christ's death that had touched His heart.
He heard Him forgive the men who had terribly mistreated all three of them.
He saw the self control and demeanor of the Son of God and came under conviction of his own deep need.
He knew that Christ could save Him.
In faith he reached out to the Saviour and asked for mercy.
This was tremendous faith from someone who was himself in great agony.
He placed his faith in a Messiah that was dying.
This man obviously believed that Jesus Christ would conquer death and receive His kingdom.
The thief ignored the ridicule of the observers.
He found peace through faith in Jesus Christ.
He started on the cross as a common criminal who deserved hell.
But found God's Favor through faith in Jesus Christ and became a child of God.
Just like that— He didn’t need to clean himself up, he wasn’t baptised, he didn’t even pray the sinners prayer.
But he repented, believed, and was saved.
Romans 10:13 (NIV)
13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
3. “Woman, behold, your son”.
As Jesus Christ suffered on the cross He noticed Mary standing by with the disciple He loved, John.
Even though Jesus was suffering greatly on the cross, He was concerned for His mother.
He reaches out to her.
He assures her with his words.
Obviously they had a very special relationship.
It’s as if Jesus is reassuring her that He is in the Father’s will.
That this whole thing has played out just as it was supposed to.
We can only imagine Mary, looking into the face of her 1st born son— much like she did about 33 years ago in a stable.
With this interaction, Jesus is telling her that John would care for her now.
Then He charged John to look after His mother on His behalf.
History tells us that John took care of her from this point on.
Christ's love and concern for others never fails.
If Christ shows this concern for his family and others when He was in such great pain, think of how much He loves you and I.
He forgave those who crucified Him.
He received the criminal on his death bed.
He provided closure and confidence for His mother.
What love.
He shows in these first three statements, these cries from the cross, his GREAT love and care for us.
He lives out what he stated in
These remaining 4 statements— or cries from the cross are much more intimate, even more personal— they are a bit more focused on Jesus and the very inner condition of his soul at this point.
They reflect Jesus’ state of being, his interactions with God the Father, and they have cosmic applications to the ultimate mission Jesus set out and accomplished.
4. “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”
Jesus made His first 3 cries between 9:00 am and 12:00 am.
At 12:00 noon darkness covered the land as Jesus Christ bore the sins of the world.
Darkness is a very suitable resemblance of sin.
Jesus Christ the light of the world took upon Him the sins of the whole world.
Satan and his fallen angels were no doubt present gloating over the whole scene.
A Roman historian, named Phlegon, mentions an extraordinary solar eclipse and earthquake about the time of the crucifixion.
During the 3 hours of darkness Jesus Christ did not say a word.
He felt the agony and horror of sin which He had never experienced before.
For now He was carrying all the sins of the whole world upon Himself.
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