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The Hour of Darkness
Plot Points
In his last hours with his disciples, Jesus took time to teach them what true servanthood looks like and express his love for them, knowing they would abandon him.
It had been an eventful week…
Sunday
Jesus enters Jerusalem on a donkey.
Matt.
21:1–17; Mark 11:1–11; Luke 19:29–44
Monday
Jesus curses the fig tree.
Matt.
21:18–19; Mark 11:12–14
Jesus cleanses the temple.
Matt.
21:12–13; Mark 11:15–18; Luke 19:45–46
Tuesday
Jesus’ authority is questioned.
Matt.
21:23–22:14; Mark 11:27–12:12; Luke 20:1–19
Jesus teaches in the temple.
Matt.
22:41–46; Mark 12:35–37; Luke 20:41–44
Mary anoints Jesus.
Matt.
26:6–13; Mark 14:3–9; John 12:2–8
Wednesday
Opponents form a plot to betray Jesus.
Matt.
26:14–16; Mark 14:10–11; Luke 22:3–6
Thursday
Jesus presides at the Last Supper.
Matt.
26:17–29; Mark 14:12–25; Luke 22:7–30
Jesus prays in Gethsemane.
Matt.
26:30–46; Mark 14:26–42; Luke 22:39–46; John 18:1
Then we get to Friday… (Let’s read Luke 22.52-53)
The arrest of Jesus – the moment the haters of Jesus had longed for came after the Last Supper, Jesus’ prayer in Gethsemane, and the betrayal of Judas.
In fact, John tells us that Judas Iscariot led a “Roman cohort” to the garden to identify Him (John 18:3).
A Roman cohort was a battalion – 600 soldiers, a tenth of a legion!
It took 600 soldiers to arrest Jesus Christ!
When Jesus asked them whom they were seeking, and they replied, “Jesus the Nazarene,” He spoke three words: “I am He.”
And the Bible says the entire battalion “drew back and fell to the ground” (John 18:6 NIV).
Six hundred soldiers felled by three words!
Notice that the text says, “This is YOUR hour” – the hour when Satan’s power would reign supreme.
Enjoy YOUR hour, you wicked men, because JESUS’ hour had not yet come!
The Sacrifice
Without question, the crucifixion of Jesus was a terrible event... a.
It was an excruciating and painful way to die, which Jesus was willing to accept without pain-killing drugs - Mt 27:32-35
It was a shameful way to die, mocked by those who watched, crucified with common thieves - Mt 27:36-44
Along with the physical suffering, there was the spiritual agony - Mt 27:45-50
While there may be a place for contemplating upon the actual physical agony Jesus endured... a. Jesus did not want people to weep for Him, but for themselves…
The significance and lessons to be learned from the crucifixion go far beyond feeling sorry for what Jesus suffered.
For example, we should never forget that "The Crucifixion Of Jesus" is...
Jesus Killed Sin
8:3–4.
Having stated the fact of freedom, Paul then explained how it is achieved.
He declared again the impossibility of attaining freedom over sin through the (Mosaic) Law.
It was powerless to free from sin.
Not that the Law was weak in itself (as many translations suggest), for it was good (7:12).
But because of sinful human nature, the Law could not deliver from sin.
The words “sinful nature” translate sarx (lit., “flesh”), which can mean either human sinful corruption or human weakness (cf.
7:5, 18, 25; 8:4–5, 8–9, 12–13).
God accomplished deliverance over sin, however, by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man (lit., “likeness of flesh of sin”).
Jesus was sent not in sinful flesh but in the likeness of it.
His human nature was protected and preserved from the indwelling principle of sin that has plagued all other human beings since Adam (cf.
Luke 1:35).
He was also sent, literally “concerning or for sin” (peri harmartias, not as the niv has it, to be a sin offering).
In other words He came to do something about sin.
What He did was to condemn it; by His death on the cross, He condemned sin (katekrinen, “passed a judicial sentence on it”; cf.
katakrima, “punishment,” Rom.
8:1) so that those in Christ are not condemned.
The goal of this was so that the righteous requirements of the Law—a life of holiness (Lev.
11:44–45; 19:2; 20:7)—could be fully met as believers do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
The provision of deliverance from the power of sin is through the death of Jesus Christ, but experiencing it in one’s daily conduct comes through the controlling power of the Holy Spirit.
Love One Another
JESUS THEREBY DEMONSTRATED WHAT TRUE LOVE IS...
1.Through the cross we now understand the meaning of true love… ●
1 John 3:16 (NIV84) — 16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.
And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
John 15:13 (NIV84) — 13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
2. His love serves as the pattern for our love –
John 13:34–35 (NIV84) — 34 “A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
May our contemplation of the crucifixion remind us of the high standard of love we are called to show toward one another –
1 John 4:11 (NIV84) — 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
JESUS DIED FOR ALL... 1. God desires all men to be saved, not desiring any to perish - 1Ti 2:3-6; 2Pe 3:9
2. Therefore He offered Jesus as a propitiation for all - 1Jn 2: 1-2 –
May our meditation upon the crucifixion include thinking about the need of others
JESUS IS THE WORLD'S ONLY HOPE... 1.
He is the only way to the Father - Jn 14:6
2. Only in His name is salvation to be found - Ac 4:12
3. Deny the Son, and one does not have the Father - 1Jn 2:23
4. Abide in His doctrine, and one has both the Father and the Son - 2Jn 9 –
May our meditation upon the crucifixion move us to do what we can to proclaim the message of redemption to those lost in sin - cf. 2Co 5:18-6:1
Conclusion
1.Certainly more could be said about "The Crucifixion Of Jesus"
2. But perhaps these few thoughts will increase our appreciation of this significant event...
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His death is the condemnation of sin
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