04-14-19 Morning Worship - The Righteous Cannot be Condemned
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✝ BIG BIBLICAL TRUTH
● ✝ Justifying the wicked is an abomination to God
✝ PROVERBS 17:15
● ✝ He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an
abomination to the Lord.
✝ THE SCRIPTURAL CONTEXT
● Jesus entered Jerusalem → Last Supper → Gethsemane → Betrayed by Judas →
Annas, Caiaphas, now Pilate
● ✝ John 18 Pilate interrogates Jesus → ✝ 18:38 I find not guilt in [Jesus]
○ Ex 12:5 a lamb w/o blemish
● ✝ 19:1-12 Jesus flogged, ridiculed, yet guiltless (19:4)
○ ✝ 19:12 Pilate wants to release Jesus but (v7-8) fears the Jews
○ Read 19:1-12
● God’s promises being fulfilled in real people’s lives
○ Eternal life secured in the midst of political drama
○ Pilate reveals his struggles with the word, “What is truth?” (18:38)
○ Jews reveal their power with the words “Caesar’s friend” (19:12)
✝ THE HISTORICAL SETTING
● ✝ Tiberius Caesar (14-37 AD), Sejanus (Praetorian Prefect), Pilate (Procurator of
Judea)
● ✝ TIBERIUS like President, SEJANUS like Secret Service, Pilate like Governor
● ✝ SEJANUS plotted to replace TIBERIUS
● ✝ SEJANUS hated Jews → feared Jews would interfere so he stirred up trouble for
them
○ c.f. Mary Smallwood Latomus “Some Notes on the Jews Under Tiberius”
● ✝ SEJANUS led PILATE to hate Jews
● ✝ SEJANUS turned TIBERIUS against the Jews (deceived)
● ✝ TIBERIUS discovered SEJANUS plans
● ✝ TIBERIUS executed SEJANUS in AD 31
● ✝ TIBERIUS told PILATE to favor the Jews
● ✝ PILATE feared association w/ SEJANUS → Possibly appointed by SEJANUS
● ✝ Read 19:12 in this context → “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend”
○ JEWISH leaders want Jesus dead & v12 is a political threat to PILATE
✝ THE SCRIPTURAL TRUTH
● ✝ God set this political stage to fulfill his promise to redeem you and me
● ✝ Jesus, our passover lamb (Ex 12) was crucified by the Jewish priests
○ ✝ But they failed to put his blood on the doorposts of their heart (Faith)
○ ✝ Exodus 12:13 When I see the blood I will pass over you
○ The crowd said CRUCIFY HIM → The Apostles say TRUST HIM
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The Jews lacked Faith → Read John 19:13-16
✝ BIG BIBLICAL TRUTH
● Justifying the wicked is an abomination to God
○ Jesus died because our sin is wicked & God wanted to redeem us
✝ PROVERBS 17:15
● He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an
abomination to the Lord.
✝ ANOTHER BIG BIBLICAL TRUTH
● Condemning the righteous is an abomination to God.
○ ✝ 2 Cor 5:21 For our sake he made him to be sin [spotted] who knew no sin
[spotless], so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
○ ✝ Phil 3:9 Paul speak about “not having a righteousness of my own that comes
from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from
God that depends on faith—
○ Your salvation is fixed → God would be an abomination if he condemned anyone
who bears the righteousness of Christ by faith.