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THE DEATH OF GOD’S SON
MARK 15:31-42
Introduction:
Our society is literally begging for heroes…they make heroes out of men/women for all kinds of reasons:
“he was the hero of the game”
“he was a hero because he dared to speak out for/against __________________(just fill in the blank with whatever the latest nonsense is)”
Yet, I submit to you:
“The world has never seen a greater hero than the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Jesus left His home in Heaven, invaded this world, His arch enemy’s own territory, to redeem His people from their sins.
Jesus Christ, Who was, is, and ever shall be God, came to this world and became a man”
Phil.
2:5-8; John 1:1; 14.
He lived a sinless life, perfectly keeping the Law of God for those who could not keep it.
Jesus came to this world to provide a way for the lost to be saved.
In order for Him to open this way of salvation, He had to die.
He had to be nailed to a cross and executed, the innocent dying the guilty, 1 Pet.
3:18.
Jesus was rejected by the Jews.
They accused Him of blasphemy and declared that He was worthy of death.
They beat Him, bound Him and took Him to Pontius Pilate.
Pilate refused to free Jesus and upheld the death sentence, turning Jesus over to his soldiers so that they could execute Him.
Those soldiers took Jesus and they mocked Him, they beat Him with a scourge, and they led Him away to a place called Calvary, where they nailed Him to the cross.
Our text opens with Jesus on the cross.
By the time we come to verse 33, Jesus has been on the cross for three hours.
During those first three hours, He has suffered all the pain the cross can mete out.
During that time, Jesus has also been mocked by the jeering crowds.
Those first three hours were a time of pain, degradation and shame.
During that time, humanity had its way with the Creator.
The God Who made man out of the dust of the earth was dying for sin on a cross right before them and they had no more compassion for Him than they would have for a dog run over in the road.
Truth:Up to this point, Jesus has suffered greatly at the hands of man.
Now, it is time for Him to suffer at the hands of His Heavenly Father.
The cross was not about man having his chance to attack God.
The cross was about God judging His Son for sin in the place of sinners.
In these verses, we will witness The Death Of The Son of God.
In this passage, we will see Jesus as He suffers for our sins on the cross.
We will witness some of the price He paid that day so that we might go free.
We will see The Misery Of His Death; The Miracles At His Death and The Ministry Of His Death.
I. THE MISERY OF HIS DEATH-vs.
33-37
The Crucifixion Video plays here
· As I said, by the time we come to this verse, Jesus has been on the cross for some three hours.
Nails have been driven through His hands and His feet.
The muscles of His body would be cramping from dehydration and from being forced to remain in such an unnatural position for a long period time.
The spasms in His body would have caused His back, which had been lacerated from the scourging, to writhe against the wood.
A raging thirst would have gripped the Lord.
We can only try to imagine the agony He endured that day as He died for us on the cross.
· By noon, the Lord’s physical sufferings were not even close to being over.
By the “sixth hour”, he had endured inconceivable physical agony, but His spiritual sufferings were just about to commence.
We are told that “there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.”
After humanity had abused and shamed the Son, God the Father turned the lights out.
This was not an eclipse of the sun.
That would not have been possible at the Passover, which was held just after a full moon.
This was not a natural darkness, it was a supernatural darkness.
It also appears that this darkness was not worldwide, but that it was localized in Israel.
Why did God cause this darkness to fall upon Israel the day Jesus died?
I want to offer a few possible reasons for this.
One reason has to do with the people around the cross.
What Christ was about to endure was so holy that sinful humanity was not worthy to look upon it.
Another reason has to do with ancient prophecy.
A third reason has to do with the curse of sin.
The lost are held captive in the darkness of their sins, Eph.
5:8; Col. 1:13.
Jesus entered the very darkness of sin that we might be brought out of darkness into “His marvelous light”, 1 Pet.
2:9.
The darkness that covered Israel lasted for three hours.
As far as we know, the darkness silenced the people around the cross.
For three hours, there was little sound or movement.
At the end of that time, from the depths of that oppressive darkness, Jesus cries, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?”
To understand why Jesus made that terrible cry, we need to understand what was happening during those three hours of darkness.
While Jesus hung on the cross that day, the sins of those who would be saved were transferred to Jesus Christ.
As Paul would later write in 2 Cor.
5:21, “For He hath made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.”
While darkness covered the nation of Israel that day, the blessed Lord of glory was plunged into the greatest darkness He had ever known.
The holy, sinless, Lamb of God literally became sin on that cross.
Peter would put it this way, “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed,” 1 Pet.
2:24.
· Consider what this means.
It means that every lie, every murder, every act of revenge, every aborted baby, every word of blasphemy, and every evil deed committed by all those who would ever be redeemed by His blood was placed on Him.
It means that all the pride, all the hatred, all the sexual sin, all the immorality, all the wickedness and all the ungodliness of His people was placed on Him.
It means that every rape, every molestation, every injustice, and every evil thought or deed ever committed by those He would redeem was placed on Jesus.
· Can you imagine how this must have repulsed His holy soul?
The spiritual agony Jesus endured that day far outweighed any physical torment He might have suffered.
· When that transaction was made on the cross, God the Father focused all of His wrath against sin into the body of His Son.
God judged Him as if He were every one of those who would come to Christ.
God treated Jesus as if He were a murdered, a rapist, a whoremonger, or a blasphemer.
In that moment of time, Jesus suffered the greatest agony of Hell itself.
He suffered separation from the presence of His Father!
By the way, the greatest pain of Hell will not be the fire.
It will not be the thirst.
It will not be the gnashing of teeth.
The greatest agony of Hell will be eternal separation from Almighty God, 2 Thes.
1:8-9.
· When Jesus cried “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?
Or My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” Some of the people near the cross thought He was calling on Elijah.
· When Jesus cried like He did, He was not calling on Elijah.
Jesus was quoting Psalm 22:1.
He was doing more than that!
He was signaling that He had been judged in the place of sinners and for sin!
Mark tells us in verse 37, that He “cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.”
John tells us what He cried.
John 19:30 says, “When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.”
Jesus paid the entire for all sin:past, present and future!
The phrase “it is finished” translates the Greek word “tetelestai”.
It was a common word that had many meanings in that society.
It meant, “the deal has been struck and both parties are satisfied.”
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