Sermon Tone Analysis

*BBC FASTING FROM THE CROSS MATTHEW 27:34-50 DECEMBER 1, 2007*

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*MATTHEW 27:34-50 * 34 1 THEY GAVE HIM VINEGAR TO DRINK MINGLED WITH GALL: AND WHEN HE HAD TASTED /THEREOF/, HE WOULD NOT DRINK.

35 1 AND THEY CRUCIFIED HIM, AND PARTED HIS GARMENTS, CASTING LOTS: THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET, THEY PARTED MY GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND UPON MY VESTURE DID THEY CAST LOTS.

36 AND SITTING DOWN THEY WATCHED HIM THERE;  37 1 AND SET UP OVER HIS HEAD HIS ACCUSATION WRITTEN, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

38 1 THEN WERE THERE TWO THIEVES CRUCIFIED WITH HIM, ONE ON THE RIGHT HAND, AND ANOTHER ON THE LEFT.

39 1 AND THEY THAT PASSED BY REVILED HIM, WAGGING THEIR HEADS,  40 AND SAYING, THOU THAT DESTROYEST THE TEMPLE, AND BUILDEST /IT /IN THREE DAYS, SAVE THYSELF.

IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD, COME DOWN FROM THE CROSS.

41 LIKEWISE ALSO THE CHIEF PRIESTS MOCKING /HIM/, WITH THE SCRIBES AND ELDERS, SAID,  42 HE SAVED OTHERS; HIMSELF HE CANNOT SAVE.

IF HE BE THE KING OF ISRAEL, LET HIM NOW COME DOWN FROM THE CROSS, AND WE WILL BELIEVE HIM.  43 HE TRUSTED IN GOD; LET HIM DELIVER HIM NOW, IF HE WILL HAVE HIM: FOR HE SAID, I AM THE SON OF GOD.  44 THE 1 THIEVES ALSO, WHICH WERE CRUCIFIED WITH HIM, CAST THE SAME IN HIS TEETH.

45 1 NOW FROM THE SIXTH HOUR THERE WAS DARKNESS OVER ALL THE LAND UNTO THE NINTH HOUR.

46 AND ABOUT THE NINTH HOUR JESUS CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?

THAT IS TO SAY, MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST THOU 1 FORSAKEN ME?  47 SOME OF THEM THAT STOOD THERE, WHEN THEY HEARD /THAT/, SAID, THIS /MAN /CALLETH FOR 1 ELIAS.

48 AND STRAIGHTWAY ONE OF THEM RAN, AND TOOK A SPONGE, AND FILLED /IT /WITH VINEGAR, AND PUT /IT /ON A REED, AND GAVE HIM TO DRINK.

49 THE REST SAID, LET BE, LET US SEE WHETHER ELIAS WILL COME TO SAVE HIM.

50 1 JESUS, WHEN HE HAD CRIED AGAIN WITH A LOUD VOICE, YIELDED UP THE GHOST.

INTRO: CHRISTMAS IS COSTLY:  THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING SEASON STARTED THE DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING IN WHAT IS KNOWN AS “BLACK FRIDAY”  SOME RETAILERS MAKE A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF THEIR PROFITS IN THIS SEASON OF CHRISTMAS.

WAL-MART HAS CUT PRICES, SAMS CLUB HAS OFFERED CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST, VALUE CITY GAVE AUTOMATIC DISCOUNTS.

BIGRESEACH CONSUMER SURVEY...RESEARCH SHOWS THAT DESPITE THE TIGHT ECONOMY...IT WILL COST THE AVERAGE PERSON...$816.69

FOR GIFTS AND COST THEM AN ADDITIONAL $109.67 ON THEMSELVES.

CHRISTMAS IS COSTLY.

IT COST MARY AND JOSEPH THE COMFORTS OF HOME DURING A LONG PERIOD OF EXILE IN EGYPT TO PROTECT THE LITTLE BABE.

IT COST MOTHERS IN AND AROUND BETHLEHEM THE MASSACRE OF THEIR BABIES BY THE CRUEL ORDER OF HEROD.

IT COST THE SHEPHERDS THE COMPLACENCY OF THEIR SHEPHERDS’ LIFE, WITH THE CALL TO THE MANGER AND TO TELL THE GOOD NEWS.

IT COST THE WISE MEN A LONG JOURNEY AND EXPENSIVE GIFTS AND CHANGED LIVES.

IT COST THE EARLY APOSTLES AND THE EARLY CHURCH PERSECUTION AND SOMETIMES DEATH.

IT COST MISSIONARIES OF CHRIST UNTOLD SUFFERING AND PRIVATION TO SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS.

IT COST CHRISTIAN MARTYRS IN ALL AGES THEIR LIVES FOR CHRIST’S SAKE.

MORE THAN ALL THIS, IT COST GOD THE FATHER HIS OWN SON—HE SENT HIM TO THE EARTH TO SAVE MEN.

IT COST JESUS A LIFE OF SACRIFICE AND SERVICE, A DEATH CRUEL AND UNMATCHED IN HISTORY.

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EXPL: IN THE TEXT, WE GONE FROM THE CENSUS THAT BROUGHT THE COUPLE TO THE CITY OF DAVID; WE’RE A LONG WAY FROM THE CHORUS OF ANGELS WHO SAID, GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST; A  LONG WAY FROM CHRIST, NO IN A CRADLE BUT A MANGER.

AND WE ARE FASTED WITH THE COST OF SALVATION AND WE ARE FACE TO FACE WITH CHRIST AND HIS CRUCIFIXION.

SIMON OF CYRENE HELPS JESUS CARRY THE CROSS AND

JESUS ON THE CROSS...HEARS THE SOLDIERS CAST LOST FOR HIS CLOTHES

THERE IS THE CITATION ON THE CROSS...JESUS KING OF THE JEWS

THE CRIMINALS ALONGSIDE THE CROSS...THE TWO ROBBERS

THE CONTEMPT FROM THE CROSS...THE CROWD AND THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS

THE CLOUD OF DARKNESS THAT COVERED ALL THE LAND

THE CRY FROM THE CROSS....THOSE SEVEN SAYINGS.

THE CESSATION ON THE CROSS WHERE JESUS DIES....

 

THERE AS  PART OF THE CRUCIFIXION IS THE CUP FROM THE CROSS...

 

FROM THE CROSS HE REFUSED THE VINEGAR AND GALL, THE SOUR WINE....HE TURNED IT DOWN....HE SO TO SPEAK...FASTED FROM THE CROSS.

WHAT IS HAPPENING AT THIS CLIMACTIC MOMENT AS EVIL LOOMS AND THE DEMON PRANCE AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS; WHAT IS TAKING PLACE TO SECURE YOUR SALVATION AND MY SALVATION AS JESUS WHO KNEW NO SIN BECAME SIN.

WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CUP FO THE CROSS.

TS: AS WE LOOK AT THIS PASSAGE WE WILL HAVE GREATER APPRECIATION FOR THE CUP OF THE CROSS.

IF WE LOOK AT IT THERE IS NOT JUST THE CUP OF THE CROSS..BUT THE CUPS OF THE CROSS..THERE ARE THREE CUPS WE’D LIKE TO LOOK AT FROM THE TEXT.

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THE CUP OF COMPASSION V. 34 * AND THEY GAVE HIM WINE VINEGAR MIXED, MINGLED, WITH GALL; AND AFTER TASTING THE DRINK, HE REFUSED AND WAS UNWILLING TO DRINK IT.

 

THE VINEGAR WAS LIGHT WINE THAT WAS ACIDIC AND WAS A COMMON DRINK AMONG THE ROMANS SOLDIERS...MINGLED WITH GALL OR AS MARK SAID, :MYRRH...SYMBOLIZED A BITTER DRINK..THAT WAS MIXED BY THE WOMEN OF THE CROSS THAT SERVED AS AN ANESTHETIC TO DEADEN THE PAIN, TO MAKE THE CROSS BEARABLE.

IT WAS A CUP OF COMPASSION.

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