The Purpose Of Jesus
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Our sermon will be on Luke 18:31-34
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We are going through the book of John on Wednesday Nights
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The Purpose Of Jesus
The Purpose Of Jesus
All of us have a purpose.
We can think about that long term or short term
For example, at work I’m responsible for many things.
Like making sure our websites are updated
Checking the code to ensure it looks correct
Any new features for the sites
And then at home, making sure we have everything we need
Making sure the bills are paid, and making the money to pay the bills.
Cristy is responsible for nearly everything else
She also cleans the church and chooses the songs as Worship Leader.
Christian has several jobs. the most important job is to annoy Lizzie.
I could keep going with others, but I think you get the picture.
I have a purpose here at the church.
It says in Ephesians that God set up the structure of the church to equip the church for the work of the ministry (Ephesians 4:11-16)
Jesus had a purpose.
God had a plan.
There was a purpose for the cross.
31 Then He took the twelve aside and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be accomplished.
32 For He will be delivered to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon.
33 They will scourge Him and kill Him. And the third day He will rise again.”
34 But they understood none of these things; this saying was hidden from them, and they did not know the things which were spoken.
What has Jesus been talking about?
He has been talking to the Rich Young Ruler.
I’m not going into big details here, because I may cover this later, but salvation is the main topic.
Those around Jesus said “Who then can be saved?”
Jesus then says that all is possible with God.
Then, Jesus talks about how God will reward Sacrifice.
That brings us to our Scripture where Jesus takes his disciples aside.
Jesus will fulfill Scripture
Jesus will fulfill Scripture
In this scripture, Jesus is telling what he was about to do.
Did you Jesus fulfilled over 3 hundred prophecies in the OT.
I just want to talk about a few of them.
Isaiah 53 has a bunch of them but in the last few verses we see a bunch. verses Isaiah 53:10-12
9 And they made His grave with the wicked— But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.
These things were written over 700 years before Jesus.
And what about Psalm 22:1
1 My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning?
Jesus quotes this on the cross.
It was written about a 1000 years before Jesus.
In fact, we have a copy of psalm 22 that was scribed over a 100 years before Jesus.
That’s not all it says
7 All those who see Me ridicule Me; They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8 “He trusted in the Lord, let Him rescue Him; Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!”
also, a few verses down Psalm 22:16-18
16 For dogs have surrounded Me; The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and My feet;
17 I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me.
18 They divide My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots.
Think about this: it describes the crucifixion before it was even invented.
And none of this was done by Jesus - He was a victim of it.
We can be sure that someone looked down and saw what would happen and recorded it way before it ever happened.
So we can be sure that Jesus fulfilled Scripture.
Jesus will be Scourged
Jesus will be Scourged
He will be mocked and insulted and spit upon.
I don’t know if you can imagine the way they treated people back then. It was horrific.
We often complain about how we are treated and that don’t even compare to what Jesus went through.
Many people didn’t even survive the scourging.
The Romans knew how to torture and kill people.
The scourge was a whip like thing made of several lengths of some kind of cord or leather with several bits of metal tied to it.
Sometimes the ends would have hooks in them that they called the scorpion.
The would beat them almost to the point of death and some would die in the process.
The hooks at the end would often tear pieces of flesh off and well, I don’t want to get any more graphic than that.
That doesn’t even include the ridicule they went through.
They would then make the person that was scourged carry the cross.
When they got to Golgotha or Calvary where ...
Jesus will be our Sacrifice
Jesus will be our Sacrifice
The cross wouldn’t have been an easy thing to look upon.
They would nail or tie or both the person to the cross.
They actually found someone that had a nail in their ankles in an ossuary in Israel.
The point is that they were not coming off.
They would die on the cross.
It wasn’t an easy death.
Because of their outstretched hands, they couldn’t breathe correctly.
So fluids would build up in their lungs until the couldn’t push up to breathe any more and they would die.
All of that describes what Jesus was saying that would happen on what we call good Friday.
Then on the the 3rd day ...
Jesus will Spring out of the tomb
Jesus will Spring out of the tomb
The women that took care of Jesus went to the tomb that Joseph of Arimathea had secured for Jesus and couldn’t find him.
He wasn’t there because he was risen.
You know what, he still is.
This proved that he was God.
I have been talking about everything like it was going to happen because that is the perspective that Jesus was telling them.
Now we are going to talk about what did happen.
Jesus did rise from the tomb and he remains risen.
Some will say that the apostles just thought that he rose, but not only did this event change the lives of the apostles, but the lives of the whole world.
Our calendar revolves around the birth of Jesus.
On documents, they would put “In the year of our Lord ...”
They are measuring from the life of Jesus because he still lives.
If he is God then we need to listen to what he said.
He is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. In him, we put our truth in him.
If we do, then ...
Jesus will Save us
Jesus will Save us
We are no longer a slave to sin and the things of this world.
because …
If we believe that Jesus died for our sins and that he rose from the grave, then God will forgive us of our sins and our souls he will save.
If we believe that Jesus died for our sins and that he rose from the grave, then God will forgive us of our sins and our souls he will save.
Some people think that being a Christian is all about what you do and don’t do.
I remember a co-worker saying “I’m going to hell, if I don’t change my ways.”
It not that he needs to change what he’s doing, he needs to change the way he was thinking.
What we have to do is put our faith, our trust, in Jesus.
The message of Easter is that Jesus rose again to prove he had power over death so that we would know that he could take care of us when we die.
We will all die at some point, the question is:
Will we spend eternity with Jesus, or will we face justice.
Will we spend eternity with Jesus, or will we face justice.
See, if we trust in Jesus, then Jesus took the punishment of our sin and nailed it to the cross
See “my sin” it’s on that cross.
Jesus paid my debt.
We no longer have to worry about what we have done, because God has saved us.
Do you believe that Jesus saved you?
Do you believe that Heaven will be your home?
If not, do you want to talk to one of us?
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Communion
Communion
Prayer
26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.”
27 Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you.
28 For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
29 But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”
If you do not feel worthy to partake of communion, then don’t.
Take this bread, it represents the body of Jesus.
Take this fruit of the vine and drink, represents the blood of Jesus shed for the remission of sins.
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