2.12.17 3.25.2018 John 18:33-38 19.1-42 Behold your King
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Today I will speak openly of the cross.
Today I will speak openly of the cross.
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• Entice: Today I will speak openly of the cross. It you want Jesus for your King, if you wish to be a part of His eternal Kingdom-you must embrace His bloodied,
Entice: Today I will speak openly of the cross.
Entice: Today I will speak openly of the cross.
thorn-crowned visage upon that torturous tree. I know it is not easy. There are pulpits today that will try to proclaim the glory of the cross whilst ignoring the gore.
If you want Jesus for your King, if you wish to be a part of His eternal Kingdom-you must embrace His bloodied, thorn-crowned visage upon that torturous tree. I know it is not easy. There are pulpits today that will try to proclaim the glory of the cross whilst ignoring the gore.
Some embrace the symbolism of the cross
Some embrace the symbolism of the cross
Some will see the symbolism of the cross while ignoring the sin it symbolizes. You and I know that you can actually build a pretty big church without the Old
while ignoring the sin it symbolizes.
while ignoring the sin it symbolizes.
It is actually possible build a pretty big religious institution without the Old Rugged Cross, but it won’t be the Church Jesus died to build it won’t be the Kingdom of God without it.
Engage: It is a humbling thing for we sinners to hear the words
Rugged Cross, but you can't build the Kingdom of God without it.
"behold your King!"
"behold your King!"
• Engage: It is a humbling thing for we sinners to hear the words "behold your King!" from the wine stained lips of a Roman petty bureaucrat. I think it's fitting. Pilate
from the wine stained lips of a Roman petty bureaucrat. I think it's fitting. Pilate was no better nor worse, no more or less sinful than you and I. His position was more responsible but his culpability exactly the same as ours. All persons can see the King on the cross or a humiliated pretender, the difference is whether or not you and i can see with eyes of faith.
was no better nor worse, no more or less sinful than you and I. His position was more responsible but his culpability exactly the same as ours. All persons can see
Expand: After His betrayal, arrest, brutal treatment by accusers and judges, and hopping between various Kangaroo courts, Jesus finally stands before the representative of the Empire-the King's man in Jerusalem. His conversation with Pilate is conducted with a dignity that is in stark contrast to His treatment. His response to Pilate's interrogation-His only defense is that His kingdom is above and beyond the day to day intrigues and aspirations of this world. To really understand the events of His passion, to comprehend the depths of His sacrificial humility you have to understand that conversation with Pilate. Jesus was not playing the petty games of the powers of this age. He was founding an eternal Kingdom proclaiming and enabling God's restorative rule over His fallen creation.
our King on the cross or a humiliated pretender, the difference is whether or not you and i can see with eyes of faith.
▾ Expand: After His betrayal, arrest, brutal treatment by accusers and judges, and hopping between various Kangaroo courts, Jesus finally stands before the
33 So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
34 Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?”
35 Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?”
36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”
37 Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
38 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.
representative of the Empire-the King's man in Jerusalem. His conversation with Pilate is conducted with a dignity that is in stark contrast to His treatment. His
playing the petty games of the powers of this age. He was founding an eternal Kingdom proclaiming and enabling God's restorative rule over His fallen creation. •
playing the petty games of the powers of this age. He was founding an eternal Kingdom proclaiming and enabling God's restorative rule over His fallen creation. •
response to Pilate's interrogation-His only defense is that His kingdom is above and beyond the day to day intrigues and aspirations of this world. To really
understand the events of His passion, to comprehend the depths of His sacrificial humility you have to understand that conversation with Pilate. Jesus was not
playing the petty games of the powers of this age. He was founding an eternal Kingdom proclaiming and enabling God's restorative rule over His fallen creation.
Excite: You and I are not only recipients of the grace of God in Christ we are participants in His ongoing Kingdom work. When we raise the banner of the Cross we are saying to the world that He reigns and that His rule is about more than the meets the eye.
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• Excite: You and I are not only recipients of the grace of God in Christ we are participants in His ongoing Kingdom work. When we raise the banner of the Cross we
Explore: Before Jesus rose to reign He died to save; so
are saying to the world that He reigns and that His rule is about more than the meets the eye.
on the cross we see either the delivering prince or a debunked pretender.
on the cross we see either the delivering prince or a debunked pretender.
on the cross we see either the delivering prince or a debunked pretender.
on the cross we see either the delivering prince or a debunked pretender.
• Explore: Before Jesus rose to reign He died to save.
Explain: This morning let’s examine together the instruments of His enthronement...
• Explain:
Of course a King has to have a
▾ Body of Sermon:
1 Crown.
1 Crown.
1 Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him.
2 And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe.
3 They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands.
4 Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.”
5 So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!”
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▾ 1 Crown. 1-5
1.1 Humiliation…rather than exaltation.
• 1.1 Humiliation.1-3
1.2 Manipulation…rather than subordination.
1.3 Rejection…rather than conviction.
Jesus crown symbolizes to the world that he failed…to the faithful it symbolizes His willingness serve unto death to save those who live in a fallen and forlorn world. We remember His bloody crown because it is not the crown he deserved.
• 1.2 Manipulation. 4-5
We also realize from history…and CNN that Kings draw a...
2 Crowd.
2 Crowd.
▾ 2 Crowd. 6-12
6 When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.”
7 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.”
8 When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid.
9 He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
10 So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?”
11 Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”
12 From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”
• 2.1 Intimidation.
2.1 Intimidation.
• 2.2 Hypocrisy.
2.2 Hypocrisy.
Pilate discovered that day that when you won’t rise above a crowd the result is a
▾ 3 Crisis. 13-16
3 Crisis.
3 Crisis.
13 So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic Gabbatha.
14 Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”
15 They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”
16 So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,
• 3.1 Pilate proclaims His innocence.
Now ironically, the root idea of “crisis” is judgement.. The tragedy of Pilates role on the day of Jesus’ crucifixion is that even though he symbolically sits upon the “judgement seat” his actions and words reflect poor judgement.
3.1 Pilate proclaims His innocence.
• 3.2 Pilate proclaims His identity.
3.2 Pilate proclaims His identity.
3.3 Pilate protects his own image.
Because of Pilate’s poor judgment in a time of crisis we are not confronted with the most brutal of all the instruments of Jesus coronation… His
▾ 4 Cross. 17-38
4 Cross.
4 Cross.
17 and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.
18 There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.
19 Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”
20 Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek.
21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’ ”
22 Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”
23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom,
24 so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” This was to fulfill the Scripture which says, “They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.” So the soldiers did these things,
25 but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”
27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.”
29 A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth.
30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
31 Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.
32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him.
33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.
35 He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe.
36 For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.”
37 And again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they have pierced.”
38 After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body.
• 4.1 A place where evil is exposed.
The cross is...
4.1 A place where evil is exposed.
• 4.2 A place where grace is exhibited.
4.2 A place where grace is exhibited.
• 4.3 A place where sin is exhausted.
4.3 A place where sin is exhausted.
• 4.4 A place where death is exiled.
4.4 A place where death is exiled.
Because the cross is so brutally effective we arrive at the final instrument of Christ’s enthronement. He is laid to rest in the
▾ 5 Crypt. 39-42
5 Crypt.
5 Crypt.
39 Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight.
40 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.
42 So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.
• 5.1 Waiting in hope.
5.1 Affirmation.
5.2 Affirmation
5.2 Anticipation.
▾ Shut Down:
Who is the King of Glory?
Who is the King of Glory?
Today we are in our minds eye leaving Jesus in that tomb. We really know the end of the story, you and I.
The Crypt could not hold Him.
The Cross could not conquer Him.
The Crisis could not condemn Him,
The Crown could not define Him…
And the crowd? You and I were a part of that crowd. All of us guilty of or forgiven by the cross of Christ. Those same voices had welcomed into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. This day they cried for His neck. In 50 days they will cry out...
“What should we do?”
Who is the King of Glory…King of my life, I crown thee now. Thine shall the glory be. Lest I forget thine thorn-crowned brow...
Lead me to calvary.