All For One and One for All
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Introduction
Opening - Something about the Three Musketeers...
Main Idea - There is ONE Person who is for ALL People
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1. THE MAN was Arrested by Men (vs. 12)
So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound him.
Continuing from the last verses, I hope you are still amazed at the picture John painted in verses 1-11, particularly verses 4-7...
Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?” They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. When Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground. So he asked them again, “Whom do you seek?” And they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
This was a minuscule, powerful display of Jesus’ majesty and might. With three words He knocked hundreds of hardened, skilled Roman soldiers on their back! As He uttered those divine words, He clearly let them know that He was no vicim of this evil plot hatched by the Jewish leadership and carried out by Judas. No, He was not a victim! He was letting them know that He was ALLOWING them to arrest Him.
We know why He allowed this farce of an arrest to take place…we know why He, in His wise, providential plan submitted Himself to this ridiculous treatment by the one He created. He submitted Himself to their evil plan because He knew how necessary it was for the possibility of their redemption and the redemption and salvation of generations to come.
Jesus was as bold and fearless as a lion! And His motivation for His boldness and fearlessness in part was His deep love for those whom He created!
He knew what those Jewish leaders needed, He knew what those Roman soldiers needed. He knew what all people of all time needed and He was willing to subject Himself to pain, suffering and humiliation - ending on the most ignominious death, hanging naked on a cross of wood!
And it was His death that would truly demonstrated His power! Because it was only through His death that we would have the possibility of everlasting life...
Ravi Zacharias - “The power that bring to life that which is dead within us, the prophets pointed to Him, the Psalms sang about Him, the Proverbs elucidated His wisdom, the Gospel writers narrated His life story, the Acts of the Apostles told us how the church built itself upon that foundation, the epistles tell us of all the truths that He not only enunciated, but was incarnating Himself and then finally that majestic book of Revelation where the doors are open and we get a glimpse into the heavens itself where the angels are present and the elders are casting all their crowns upon Him. The Word and the Power of God. The final and the only bridge that can break down all the barriers...”
“The power that bring to life that which is dead within us, the prophets pointed to Him, the Psalms sang about Him, the Proverbs elucidated His wisdom, the Gospel writers narrated His life story, the Acts of the Apostles told us how the church built itself upon that foundation, the epistles tell us of all the truths that He not only enunciated, but was incarnating Himself and then finally that majestic book of Revelation where the doors are open and we get a glimpse into the heavens itself where the angels are present and the elders are casting all their crowns upon Him. The Word and the Power of God. The final and the only bridge that can break down all the barriers between man and the church
What barriers? Well, the primary barrier is that we are enemies of God and it is ONLY through the Sacrifice of Christ that we have the HOPE people desperately long for...
And this is why...
THE MAN - the GOD/MAN! allowed a band of soldiers, their captain and the officers of the the Jews to arrest and bind Him!
Illustrate - In the movie, Man of Steel, Superman was arrested.... SM speaking to the captain, “just because I’m more powerful than you doesn’t mean I’m your enemy.”
Apply - This act calls for Worship and praise!
Review - There is One Person who is for All People
There is One Man who is for All Men
THE MAN was Arrested by Men
2. THE ONLY HIGH PRIEST Stood Before a High Priest (vs. 13)
First they led him to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
So after Jesus was arrested and bound, the first place they brought Him was to Annas. John is the only gospel to mention this interaction. In fact, let me give you the order of events that happened so early that morning...
Explain -
Jesus’ Six Trials
Religious Trials
Before Annas -
Before Caiaphas -
Before Caiaphas
Before the Sanhedrin -
Before the Sanhedrin
Civil Trials
Civil Trials
Before Pilate -
Before Pilate
Before Herod -
Before Herod
Before Pilate -
Before Pilate
Louis A. Barbieri, Jr., “Matthew,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures, ed. J. F. Walvoord and R. B. Zuck, vol. 2 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985), 84.
This passage can be somewhat confusing, because it seems to indicate that there are two High-Priests. Or, at least it makes it confusing as to whom actually is the high priest.
If we were left to the synoptic gospels, we would conclude that Caiaphas was the High Priest because he is the only one mentioned. It is because of John’s gospel that hear of Annas. So? What’s the story here?
Well, the soldiers did, in fact, bring Jesus to Annas first as somewhat of an informal meeting between he and Jesus. But why Annas? Well, Annas, at one point was the High Priest. He was Hight Priest between A.D. 6 and A.D. 15 (By the way - A.D. stands for Anno Domini, which is Latin for “year of our Lord,” and it means the number of years since the birth of Jesus Christ.)
Illustrate -
Annas was appointed High Priest by Quirinus who was the Roman governor of Syria.
Annas we removed from the position of High Priest by Pilate’s predecessor, Valerius Gratus in A.D. 15.
According to Jewish law, the High Priest was High Priest for life and no doubt the Jews disregarded his disposal by the Governor. Annas still continued to wield great power and influence. After all, the High Priest was at the pinnacle of power over the Jewish nation.
Evidently Annas’s power and influence remained considerable even after his removal from that office. Like an American Supreme Court justice, the high priest held a lifetime appointment. Deposition of a high priest by the pagan Romans would have been strongly resented by the Jews. Consequently, Annas may still have been referred to as high priest among the populace, as a sort of high priest emeritus. Such a practice, evidenced in the writings of the Jewish historian Josephus, tends to clear up those references in the NT to Annas as high priest during the same chronological period as Caiaphas (; , ; ).
Walter A. Elwell and Barry J. Beitzel, “Annas,” Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1988), 115.
In this passage, we see Jesus brought before Annas and then in verses 19-24, he questions the Lord. After His questioning in the informal meeting, he sends Him to Caiaphas, the true High priest at the time.
Yet, as you can see, they are still under the subjugation of Rome.
In this passage, we see Jesus brought before Annas and then in verses 19-24, he questions the Lord. After His questioning in the informal meeting, he sends Him to Caiaphas, the true High priest at the time.
Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
As you read through this narrative in John’s gospel, you will see these vignettes. Vignettes that fill in the gaps left by the other gospels. I am planning to treat each of these snapshots separately to see what we can learn from Jesus journey to the cross.
I say all of this to say, we will see Annas and Caiaphas again later in this chapter. We will follow the flow of the narrative and see what we can see.
But until then, I would like you to ruminate on this profound truth. While it is true that Jesus was now standing before the head of the High Priests, Annas, the High Priest Annas should have known that the one standing in front of him was the almighty High Priest of all time.
Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Annas may have had the title at one point and now his Son-in-law carries that same title. And Annas may have had a great deal of clout with the Jewish leadership and people, but He was nothing as He stood before Jesus. Ironically Annas stood before His GREAT HIGH PRIEST and failed to see Jesus for who he truly was and is.
Role of the High Priest - He was the supreme religious leader in all of Israel. His heritage was traced all the way back to Aaron, the brother of Moses.
1 “Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests—Aaron and Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
The High Priest oversaw all the work of the suborinant priests ()
It was only the High Priest that could wear the Urim and the Thummin (engraved dice-like stones used to determine truth or falsity). So they would be able to determine the will of God for the people of God...
Significance of the High Priest - Remember the High Priest was the mediator between God and man. He was the go-between, because God’s people needed a representative who could stand before a holy God on their behalf.
21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation.”
The High Priest had to offer sin offering on behalf of the whole congregation as well as himself
But the most important role of the High Priest was his responsibiity on the Day of Atonement. This was on the tenth day of the 7th month of every year (July 10th).
He and only he was allowed behind the Most Holy Place in God’s Temple. This place was behind a great veil that separated God from His people. After he made the sacrifice first for himself and then for his people, he would take the blood of the sacrifice and sprinkle it on the mercy seat, which is God’s throne.
14 And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat on the east side, and in front of the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times. 15 “Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring its blood inside the veil and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, sprinkling it over the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat.
He did this to make atonement for his sins and the sins commited by the people of God for the year.
10 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.”
But this guy, as important as he was, was just a picture of the True High Priest that was to come...
11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) 12 he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
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And now, the true High Priest was standing before a High Priest. And the one who should have recognized Him refused to see Him for who He was. Annas, ironically who had killed many lambs over the years on the day of atonement and sprinkled their blood on the mercy seat would be a part of killing the Great High Priest, for the possibility of his own redemption.
The HIGH PRIEST...
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Apply - But what does this matter for you here today? Well, you no longer need a priest because of what the Great High Priest accomplished for you on the cross. And
Review - There is One Person who is for All People
There is One Man who is for All Men
THE MAN was Arrested by Men
2. THE ONLY HIGH PRIEST Stood Before a High Priest
3. THE ONE PERSON Died for All People (vs. 14)
It was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it would be expedient that one man should die for the people.
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Let’s take a look at where Caiaphas first said this in John’s Gospel...
Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him, but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.” He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.
This is really where the title of this message comes to bear. “One for all” Jesus is the one, for all of humanity. And this is a very important concept that all believers need to understand and understand well. It is called
Penal Substitutionary Atonement
Penal - Jesus took the PENALTY from God the Father against sin
Substitutionary - Jesus took the penalty as a SUBSTITUTE for sinners (you and I)
Atonement - Jesus’ death appeased the holy hostility of God toward us because of our sin.
Sin has been part of our world and societies sin Adam and Eve fell in the garden. Things like materialism, hate lust, greed, jealousy, rage, lying, immorality, adultery, prostitution, stealing, rape, murder, and the list goes on and on, have been with us and part of us since the early begin. You will not find a society today or historically that has not struggled with these things. This is why we have laws. If everyone were good, we wouldn’t need laws with the promise of punishment if broken, otherwise.
And God has dealt with sinful and rebellious people for centuries.
He is holy and just and these characteristics lead to His justice and judgment. But they also lead to another place, a place that gives hope! It leads to a place of his perfect love, grace, mercy and, as hard as it is to imagine, a willingness to forgive.
But how is this even possible? How can a holy perfect God forgive wicked people who rebel against His will so easily? How can this God be true to His just character and allow the rebellious to escape the punishment they deserve?
The answer is located in perhaps the most amazing concepts found in the Scriptures - Substitution.
Substitution is something that we are all familiar with. They do it in sports all the time. Players are pulled out of the game and the coach puts in a substitute.
Substitutions are common in cooking too - You can substitute margarine for butter or my wife uses applesauce instead of sugar in her amazing muffins.
Substitutions are used in the world of education as well. The best day in elementary school was when we had a substitute teacher.
Substitutions are also common in the medical field. My sister-in-law, Hollie gave my father-in-law Buck, her kidney...
And God, in the Old Testament capitalizes on the concept of substitution as well in the area of punishing sin.
Because God is holy and because people are sinful and unholy, God’s justice requires death for sin. But, God allowed His death judgment to fall on innocent animal substitutes in the place of guilty humans...
or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed. And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.
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Pastor Chris Norman explains it this way...
God punished people’s sins by death through an act of substitution. In the OT a person would come to God’s altar with a lamb or some other type of acceptable animal, and he would first lay his hands on the head of the animal. This symbolized a transferring of sin from the guilty to the innocent. God spiritually and symbolically allowed a person’s sin to transfer onto the animal. The innocent animal became a substitute for the guilty sinner, and the animal would then be put to death. If this was done with true faith in God, God would forgive the sinner, and he would escape the punishment of sin. Because there was death, God’s holiness and justice were not compromised. Sin had been rightly punished. All throughout the OT animal sacrifices were made to account for sin, and thus through faith, people could escape God’s judgment for sin and receive the forgiveness of God. This act of substitution gave people hope that a relationship with God, both temporarily on earth and eternally in heaven, was possible.
Illustrate -
Some of animal lovers here might be appalled by this process and treatment of innocent animals. However, we must understand that through the death of these innocent animals God is communicating the seriousness of sin. God allowed these sheep, goats and so-forth to be innocent substitutes for sinful humans.
By the way, God never intended the OT sacrificial system to be a permanent solution to our sin problem with God.
Chris Norman says, “The sacrificial system in the OT was a preview to God’s ultimate way of handling the problem of sin. Animals are inadequate substitutes because they are inferior to humans. An equal sacrifice would be human for human, not animal for human.”
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
So we understand that the blood of innocent animals is not sufficient to pay for the sins of people. But there is another problem. The blood of humans cannot pay for the sins of other humans either. Because humans, are sinful they can only pay for their own sin and not the sin of others.
Finding innocent animals isn’t a problem. Finding a sinless human is impossible. God did allow the sins of people to be transferred to innocent animal. But this was a temporary solution. There needed to be a permanent answer, that answer came, not by just any lamb, but by the Lamb of God.
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
28 These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing. 29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Lamb after lamb in the Old Testament times were slaughtered as God’s judgment against sin. Sin REQUIRES death. Old Testament Saints were not punished for their sins because, by faith their sin was transferred to innocent animals. When these animals were put to death, their sin was forgiven. But it was ultimately the death of the Lamb of God would provide the opportunity for the forgiveness of sins. If one places their faith in Jesus’ death on the cross, their sins will be forgiven.
Chris Norman - When Jesus was put to death on the cross it was a substitutionary death. On the cross God punished Jesus, His one and only son, for the sins of others. Because there were no innocent humans on the earth who could become a substitute for sin, Jesus came to fulfill this purpose. Jesus left Heaven, became a man, lived a perfect and sinless life, and became the only candidate in the history of the world who could become that human for human substitution. If Jesus was willing, and He was, He could allow guilty sinners to transfer their sin onto Him. Jesus died on the cross as the punishment for the sins of others. The entire OT sacrificial system was based on substitutionary death through innocent animals. It was God’s plan, however, from the beginning of time that Jesus would be put to death as God’s ultimate lamb.
Illustrate -
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
The entire OT sacrificial system was based on substitutionary death through innocent animals. It was God’s plan, however, from the beginning of time that Jesus would be put to death as God’s ultimate lamb.
How would you answer these questions?
Was the death of Christ really necessary?
Couldn’t God forgive people’s sins without sacrificing His only son on the cross? Is sin really that bad? Can’t we have a relationship with God our own way? Can’t we just believe in God and try to be a good person? Will God really send people to hell apart from a substitutionary death? Won’t His love and goodness cover over our failures? What if I believe in another religion apart from Jesus? Will God really judge me? Isn’t it arrogant to suggest that Jesus is the only way to God? What about all the religions of the world that do not adhere to the substitutionary death of Christ? Are you going to tell me they are all wrong, and God will judge all of them to hell? Can’t I simply try to follow God’s universal law in life by treating others the way I want to be treated? Is there another way apart from the death of Christ? Jesus was a good example for all people, but did his death really accomplish something eternally significant? Is all this really that necessary?
Couldn’t God forgive people’s sins without sacrificing His only son on the cross?
Is sin really that bad?
Can’t we have a relationship with God our own way?
Can’t we just believe in God and try to be a good person?
Will God really send people to hell apart from a substitutionary death?
Won’t His love and goodness cover over our failures?
What if I believe in another religion apart from Jesus?
Will God really judge me?
Isn’t it arrogant to suggest that Jesus is the only way to God?
What about all the religions of the world that do not adhere to the substitutionary death of Christ? Are you going to tell me they are all wrong, and God will judge all of them to hell?
Can’t I simply try to follow God’s universal law in life by treating others the way I want to be treated?
Is there another way apart from the death of Christ?
Jesus was a good example for all people, but did his death really accomplish something eternally significant? Is all this really that necessary?
Paul answers these questions for us in...
20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
If there were another way to God then the real, historical Jesus who came to earth, who lived a sinless life, who died a criminal’s death…If there were another way, then Jesus came for absolutely no reason!
But He did come for a reason...
21 From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. 22 And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you.” 23 But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.” 24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? 27 For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done. 28 Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”
Matt
The death of Jesus Christ on the cross was the most horrific event that has ever taken place in human history. Not because of the brutality of the cross. Don’t get me wrong, the cross was brutal and horrific. But, honestly, there have been more grotesque means of killing people throughout human history. So why can I make such a bold claim that the death of Jesus was the most horrific event in human history?
It’s not the cause of death that makes it horrific. It’s because of who it is!
The sinless son of God came to earth for our redemption and we put him to death. He was the only sinless person to walk the face of the earth since the Fall of humankind. He was put to shame! We, the guilty put Jesus, the innocent One to death! If there were another way to save us than through Jesus, God would have definitely used it.
Christ Norman - Jesus’ death on the cross wasn’t by accident. Jesus did not go through the agony of crucifixion so that he could become one of many different roads to heaven. If there were other roads to Heaven, Jesus would have pointed you to those roads. Jesus took on the sins of the world and died a substitutionary death in your place. God’s holiness and justice will not allow your sin to go unpunished. Either you will pay for your sins, or God will punish someone else for your sin. The only substitute in the history of the world who is qualified to take on that punishment in your place is a man named Jesus – the Lamb of God.
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There is only ONE man capable of taking on your sin debt -Jesus.
Illustrate - Do you know why Jesus had to die? Let me tell you a story that night help make it clear. Do you have a car?
Do you know why Jesus had to die? Let me tell you a story that night help make it clear. Do you have a car?
Well, let’s say you are driving home this weekend and you are cruising. You’re going say, 105 mph. You’re just flying. You get busted, the cop has you on radar and you’re done. They impound your car, and bring you straight to the courthouse to face the judge.
Well the good news is that the county you got busted in just happens to be the county in which your dad is the judge. So you’re thinking that you’re golden. He loves you, he’ll let you off, everything will be fine.
But just as you are entering the courthouse, you remember that your dad is a really good judge. He never punishes the innocent. He always punishes the guilty. He is a good and just judge.
Now you’re a little nervous. Which is going to win out, his love or his justice? He’s your dad and he loves you so he’ll want to do good to you. But he’s a good and just judge and therefore he’ll want to follow the law and render a just verdict.
What do you think he’d do? Which would win, love or justice?
[Let them respond]
It’s hard to know what he might do. Let me walk you through a scenario that shows how he might solve the dilemma.
You stand before your dad the judge and he says to you, “Son, this officer says you were going 50 mph over the speed limit. How do you plead.”
What would you say?
[Guilty]
Yeah, that’s a good idea, cause you’re guilty.
So he looks at you and says, “That will be $500 or a week in jail. Guilty as charged.” And he bangs down the gavel.
Well you don’t have any money, so the bailiff comes to take you away so you can start serving your time, when your dad, the judge stands up and says, “Wait a minute, bring him back here.” Then he stands up, takes off his robe and walks down from behind the bench. Then he reaches into his coat pocket, takes out his checkbook and writes the court a check for $500, the exact amount of your fine. Then he offers it to you.
What’s going on here is this; he is just, so he declares you guilty, since you are. And he demands that a penalty be paid. But he loves you, and so he has determined to pay that penalty himself, on your behalf.
Now as he stands there offering you the check, what do you need to do?
[Accept or reject it]
That’s right. You can accept his payment on your behalf, or for whatever reason you can reject it.
Okay, now roll back the tape. That story is I think, a great picture of what God does for us. If there are two things primarily true about God they are that He is loving and He is just. He loves you, He always has. He cannot love you more and will not love you less. He loves you. And He is just. He always renders a just verdict. He always does the right thing.
Those two things put Him in an interesting situation when it comes to us, because every one of us has broken His laws. We are guilty before Him. So which would win out? His love, which would want to let us off, or His justice that demands a penalty be paid?
The Bible says that He declared us guilty, because we are, and demanded that a penalty be paid. Then He left heaven, came to earth, became a man, and died to pay our penalty. See, we didn’t owe a $500 penalty, so He didn’t just write a check. The Bible says that sin earns us a death penalty, so He died to pay that.
Then He comes to us to offer His life on our behalf. Just like your dad with the check He stands before you and says, “I’ll take the blame for every rotten thing you’ve ever done, and give you credit, for my perfect life. All you need to do is accept it.”
Does that make sense?
Have you ever come to the point where you accepted His death on your behalf - that substitutionary payment? Would you like to now?
Review - There is One Person who is for All People
There is One Man who is for All Men
1. THE MAN was Arrested by Men
2. THE ONLY HIGH PRIEST Stood Before a High Priest
3. THE ONE MAN Died for the All PEOPLE
Conclusion
Application - The title of this sermon is “All for One and One for all” I hope you see from this text and our time in it that Jesus is One for all. The beautiful result of you and I believing in this reality is because One is for all, then we, as believers in Christ can, will, must live All for one. The ONE who selflessly gave His life as a ransom for many!!!
Concluding thought
Invitation