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A PLACE CALLED GOLGOTHA
Mark 15:21-32
Introduction
Before the world was formed God set an amazing plan into motion.
Before the sun, moon stars and planets were formed; before God made man in His image; before there was even light in the universe; God determined to send His Son to die for sinners.
Listen to some precious verses from the Word of God.
· Ephesians 1:4, “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.”
· Titus 1:2, “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.”
· 1 Peter 1:19-20, “But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.”
I know we have a hard time grasping those truths, but the fact is, if you are saved, you have been on the heart of God for a long time.
God determined that He would save you in Jesus Christ, before He ever formed the world.
Then, God sent His Son into the world to die on the cross so that you would be saved.
What God formulated in eternity was fulfilled in time!
Listen again to 1 Peter 1:20, “Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.”
Every moment of our Lord’s life, from His conception to His arrest and trial, was designed to lead Him to the very moment we will study today.
In a very real sense Jesus Christ was born to die.
He came into this world that He might give His life a ransom for His people, so that they might be eternally saved, Matt.
1:21; Mark 10:45.
Today, we will follow our Savior to Calvary.
We will watch as He suffers for our sins.
Let’s follow Him with a sense of reverence to A Place Called Golgotha.
In Mark 15:22, the Bible says, “And they bring Him unto the place Golgotha...”
I want you to see several facts about A Place Called Golgotha today.
My prayer is that we will see Jesus as He willingly gives His life to redeem us from our sins.
It is my prayer that the lost sinner will see His need of a Savior.
It is also my prayer that every truly redeemed saint of God will remember the awful price He paid for us and that we will fall in love with Jesus once again.
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It Was a Place of Choices-vs.
21-23
The cross of Jesus is a place of choice for everyone…when confronted with the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross for our sins, it brings us to a place of choice!
That choice will impact the rest of our lives, both here and in eternity.
A. A place of choice for Simon-vs.
21
Choose to go to Jerusalem
Choose to carry the cross
B. A Place of Choice for the Soldiers-vs.
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When soldiers arrived at Golgotha with Jesus, they offered Him “wine mingled with myrrh” to drink.
This was a narcotic mixture.
It was not designed for the condemned man’s comfort; it was designed for the soldier’s convenience.
They did not care how much Jesus and other condemned men suffered.
They offered them the drink because it kept the prisoners from struggling as they nailed them to the cross.
They did it because it made their jobs easier.
The prisoners who were drugged did not fight the soldiers.
They did not struggle and scream against the pain of being nailed to the cross as much as those who were not drugged first.
The soldiers did not have to force Jesus onto that cross.
They did not have to hold Him down as they drove those spikes into His hands and feet.
They did not have to endure His curses and His screams as they nailed Him to the cross.
No, as the songwriter says, “He suffered it all because He loved me!”
C. A Place of Choice for the Saviour
When Jesus is offered the mind-numbing drink, He refuses.
Why would He do that?
Jesus came to this world to die for sin.
He came to die as the innocent One for the guilty.
There really weren’t any choices for Jesus that day.
He had already chosen to follow His Father’s will!!
He was there to complete the Father’s plan of redemption.
He was there to make the Gospel of grace a reality.
He was there to unlock the door of salvation.
· Jesus wanted to do what He was about to do with a clear mind.
Jesus willingly endured all the physical, mental, spiritual and emotional agonies of the cross, without any relief.
He desired to suffer the full measure of the punishment I deserved.
He did it for me and I praise Him for that.
· Jesus also did what He did to fulfill ancient prophesy.
Isaiah 53:7-8, “He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation?
for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.”
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It Was A Place Of Choices
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It Was a Place of Crucifixion-vs.
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The Bible is an amazing book.
All four Gospel writers write about the crucifixion, but the event itself is never described.
The most important event in human history is simply described by the words, “and they crucified Him”.
The day God lifted high His holy banner of everlasting love for sinners is reduced to a simple four word sentence.
The Bible may not give us much in the way of description, but it does let us know that the crucifixion of Jesus on the cross of Calvary was a very important event.
In fact, the cross is the centerpiece of all history.
The day Jesus was crucified was the day sin and Satan were forever defeated for all those who believe.
The crucifixion is an event that deserves a closer look.
The crucifixion of Jesus Christ on the cross is an event that should grip the hearts of the redeemed.
It should fill us with praise and worship.
It is an event that should cause the lost sinner to stop and look heavenward in wonder and faith toward a God Who loved the lost sinner enough to allow His Son to die in such a fashion.
A. The Suffering of the Crucifixion.
Frederick Farrar, in his book The Life Of Christ, describes a crucifixion in this way:
A death by crucifixion seems to include all that pain and death can have of the horrible and ghastly - dizziness, cramps, thirst, starvation, sleeplessness, traumatic fever, shame, publicity of shame, long continuance of torment, horror of anticipation, mortification of intended wounds-all intensified just up to the point at which they can be endured at all, but all stopping just short of the point which would give to the sufferer the relief of unconsciousness.
One thing is clear.
The first century executions were not like the modern ones, for they did not seek a quick, painless death nor the preservation of any measure of dignity for the criminal.
On the contrary, they sought an agonizing torture which completely humiliated him.
And it is important that we understand this, for it helps us realize the agony of Christ’s death.[i]
· The procedure of crucifixion may be summarized as follows.
The patibulum was put on the ground and the victim laid upon it.
Nails, about 7 inches long and with a diameter of roughly 3/8 of an inch) were driven in the wrists.
The points would go into the vicinity of the median nerve, causing shocks of pain to radiate through the arms.
It was possible to place the nails between the bones so that no bones fractured.
Studies have shown that nails were probably driven through the small bones of the wrist, since nails in the palms of the hand would not support the weight of a body.
In ancient terminology, the wrist was considered to be part of the hand.
(Davis)
Standing at the crucifixion sites would be upright posts, called stipes, standing about 7 feet high.(Edwards)
In the center of the stipes there was sometimes a crude seat, called a sedile or sedulum, which served a support for the victim.
The patibulum was then lifted on to the stipes.
The feet were then nailed to the stipes.
To allow for this, the knees had to be bent and rotated laterally, being left in a very uncomfortable position.
The titulus was hung above the victim's head.
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