Sermon Tone Analysis

Remembering The Sacrifices

Mark 15

May 26, 2019

Introduction:

Memorial Day:

Originally instituted to honor those soldiers killed during the War Between the States.

A day for remembering those that have died in our nation’s service.

It is a time for Americans to stop and think of the great price that has been paid for the freedoms that we enjoy.

DEF.-Memorial- that which preserves the memory of something; anything that serves to keep in memory of something.

A monument is a memorial of a deceased person or event.

1.1 million Men and women have made the ultimate sacrifice since the Revolutionary War to protect and promote the freedoms that we enjoy.

Countless others have served and suffered for the cause of Freedom.

We take great pride in our memorials: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, War Between the States Memorials, Vietnam Wall of Remembrance, and Tombstone on a grave.

Not to minimize anyone’s death, but this country is more than people dying, it is about people willing to die because of the ideals upon which this nation was founded.

This nation was founded on “ One nation under God,” and the founders did not intend for it to be freedom from religion but freedom of religion!

Quotes on Liberty

“The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”—John Adams

“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: that it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.”—John

Quincy Adams

“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”—Patrick

Henry

“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”—George

Washington

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”—George

Washington

“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.

I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.”—Abraham

Lincoln

“Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.”—John

Foster Dulles

“A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest man without the fear of God.

Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real good will towards men?

Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of society?…

The Scriptures tell us, ‘Righteousness exalteth a nation.’”—Abigail

Adams

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.

It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”—John

Hancock

“The secret of my success?

It is simple.

It is found in the Bible, ‘In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths.’"—George

Washington Carver

“God who gave us life gave us liberty.

And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God?

That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.”—Thomas

Jefferson

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”—Plato

“I sought for the greatness of the United States in her commodious harbors, her ample rivers, her fertile fields, and boundless forests—and it was not there.

I sought for it in her rich mines, her vast world commerce, her public school system, and in her institutions of higher learning—and it was not there.

I looked for it in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution—and it was not there.

Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power.

America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great!”—Alexis

de Tocqueville

“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.”—General

Douglas MacArthur

“An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough.

The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision.

This is what has led us to dare and achieve.

For us, values count.”—Ronald

Reagan

“To preserve our blessed land we must look to God….It is time to realize that we need God more than He needs us….We also have His promise that we could take to heart with regard to our country, that ‘If my people, which are called by my name shall humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.’’—Ronald

Reagan

“We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.”—Robert

J. McCracken

“Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.”—John

Gunther

The very fact that we are in church today is a testimony of the sacrifices of those before us.

Because of this freedom, we must pause and memorialize those heroic defenders of freedoms that have given their very lives for ideals that were bigger than they were.

I never want to forget the price others have paid and are willing to pay so that I might be free.

But even if I were locked in an inner prison, I would still be free!

Why?

Because 2,000 years ago a man named Jesus Christ paid the ultimate price to secure my liberty and freedom when He died on the cross for my sins!!

God help us to never forget the sacrifice of Jesus for the freedom of the whole world.

I. Remember The Cruelty- Mark 15

A. The Cruelty of the Crowd- Mark 15: 6-14

Note- Picture of a rejected Servant

Keep an Eye On the Cross

An English writer once said that every man struggling to succeed in the literary world should write with an eye on the far-off island where Robert Louis Stevenson lived.

So, through the continuing centuries, all who have sought salvation have kept their minds and hearts focused on Calvary.

There is more here than we can comprehend, but we can understand enough to know that we have been bought with a price.

Joh 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

B. The Cruelty of the Crown- Mark 15: 17

Note- Picture of a rejected Supreme God

Luk 19:14 But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.

C. The Cruelty of the Cross- Mark 15: 21-26

Note- Picture of a rejected Saviour

Note- the sufferings of the cross

Psa 22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

Psa 22:17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

Psa 22:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

Isa 53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Isa 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Isa 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isa 50:6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

ILLUSTRATION:

In her book The God Who Hung on the Cross, journalist Ellen Vaughn retells a gripping story of how the Gospel came to a small village in Cambodia.

In September 1999 Pastor Tuy Seng (not his real name) traveled to Kampong Thom Province in northern Cambodia.