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Introduction
Your greatest loss?
How painful?
Staci suffering two miscarriages - painful, but watching my wife suffer even more painful.
Journey through the last hours of Jesus’ life - the heavenly Father watching as His Son suffered at the hands of sinful people.
If you didn’t know better, expect God to step in and save His Son, but this was the plan from the beginning () - the only way to save humanity was the death of the King of the Universe.
This is the moment that all of human history waited for.
This was the reason the Father sent His Son - to die for us - to pay the debt we could not pay.
This
Two life changing realities that you need to consider as we talk about the death of the King.
Story
Shame.
Jesus has been beaten mercilessly.
He has been mocked relentlessly.
He has been rejected by the people He came to save.
He has been sentenced to death.
On His way to Golgotha - place of crucifixion - right outside the city walls - a known execution site - on a public road for all to see.
A punishment reserved for non-Romans.
A reminder to all who passed by - this is what awaits you if you cross Rome.
Common to carry the crossbeam of the cross to your crucifixion.
Jesus so weak can’t carry His own cross.
Simone of Cyrene (Africa) forced to carry Jesus’ cross.
( - Don’t forget your dad carried Jesus’ cross.)
So weak from the
Offered Him wine to dull the pain, but He refused.
(Fulfillment of prophecy) .
Jesus would face crucifixion fully conscious and aware of the pain.
They crucified Him.
Mark doesn’t give us many details about the nature of crucifixion.
His readers knew the horror of crucifixion.
They knew that many would hang on the cross for hours, sometimes days, literally suffocating to death.
Our Lord, nailed to a cross - common for criminals to be stripped of clothes and hung naked on the cross.
(vs.
24) Soldiers cast lots for his garments.
Crucified in third hour - 9 a.m. - Inscription above His head: “The King of the Jews.”
Robber on right and robber on left.
James and John asked to be at his right and left - but if they had known it would have looked like this…
People pass by and mock.
“You saved others and you cannot save yourself!
You said you would rebuild the temple!
If so, come down!”
Nothing more humiliating and shameful than Roman execution on a cross.
Yet, sinful people who failed to see Jesus as God’s Promised Savior willingly subjected the Savior of the world to this humiliating death.
But, as sinful people subjected Jesus to a humiliating death, in the unseen spiritual realm, God was making a way for sinful people to have a relationship with Him.
Jesus suffered infinitely so you could know infinite love.
Horror and humiliation of cross - but something even more horrifying than the physical torture and humiliation of the cross.
Even more horrid was what Jesus experienced at the hands of His Father.
(move from natural to supernatural)
Sixth hour - 3 hours after Jesus nailed to cross - Sky goes dark - God said this would happen: “And on that day, declares the Lord, I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.”
- Sign of judgment.
Think plague of darkness Egypt experienced.
Jesus being judged not by people but by the Eternal Father.
Each Gospel focuses on something different that Jesus said from the Cross - we’re focusing just on what Mark records.
Cry – could be translated scream or screech – “God, you have failed me.
Where are you?
Last words: unheroic, hopeless words from the one who is our Hero.
This seems unlike Jesus.
Up to this point He has been in charge – reserved and resolute.
Jesus teaching us from the cross.
– Jesus knew what He was saying.
describes an execution.
David never experienced execution.
Execution is a punishment.
Jesus saying, “This Psalm points to me.
I’m the one executed.
I’m the one punished.”
· This seems unlike Jesus.
Up to this point He has been in charge – reserved and resolute.
· “My God, my God…” Not, “My head, my head, my hands my hands,” Or, “My friends, my friends…” His suffering is not physical or relational, it’s much deeper.
All of earthly suffering is like a mosquito bite compared to the suffering He is experiencing from the hand of the Father.
Perfect fellowship – eternal fellowship – experienced at the cross.
Have you ever lost a loved one?
Have you ever been forsaken or rejected by someone you love with all your heart?
Multiply that pain by infinity.
The Father and Son existing as one for all eternity, and Jesus loses this at the cross.
“My God, my God…” Not, “My head, my head, my hands my hands,” Or, “My friends, my friends…” His suffering is not physical or relational, it’s much deeper.
All of earthly suffering is like a mosquito bite compared to the suffering He is experiencing from the hand of the Father.
Perfect fellowship – eternal fellowship – experienced at the cross.
Have you ever been forsaken or rejected by someone you love with all your heart?
Multiply that pain by infinity.
This is what the Son is experiencing.
· He experiences separation from God so we can experience reconciliation to God.
He experienced eternal suffering so we can experience eternal peace.
He experiences hell on the cross – Hell is separation from God and there is nothing you can do to escape.
That’s hell.
Maybe not the fires of hell – but our hell is laid on Him at the cross.
He’s suffering your hell and my hell.
He experiences rejection and punishment so we can experience reconciliation.
He experienced infinite suffering so we can experience infinite peace.
He experiences hell on the cross – Hell is inability to escape God’s wrath.
It’s to cry out and receive no mercy.
That’s hell.
Maybe not the fires of hell – but our hell is laid on Him at the cross.
He’s suffering your hell and my hell.
It is infinite suffering.
In that moment, all of our sin placed on Jesus.
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Through faith, we know infinite love.
(, ) How much does God love you?
Go to the cross.
Jesus obeyed perfectly so you could be perfectly righteous.
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