Jesus' Cricufixion and Death

Ballard Campus 10-30-11 Pastor Mark Driscoll
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Luke 23:26-49
Jesus' Cricufixion and Death

This U-District building was held by a Baptist congregation who, when MH was in core group phase, PMD saw a sermon there railing against nuclear weapons instead of talking about Jesus

Who was there for Jesus' Death
Women followed weeping as Jesus walked to his place of Death
+The only thing worse than what Jesus suffered is what those who die without knowing Jesus will suffer
+He tells us that weeping for Him is not as important as weeping over my sin and the judgment just waiting to be poured out on those who don't know Jesus.
Jesus focuses the women's attention on the coming eternal suffering
The Men:
+Simon who carried the cross
+The two criminals
+The Roman soldiers
+The rulers
+The Centrion
+The Crowd
+His Acquaintances
Some are passive in their opposition to Jesus
The Sinner, the Soldiers, and the Scoffers
The Active opposers of Jesus
+The sinner - accused
+The Soldiers -
++They stripped Jesus naked
++They shoved a filty tolilet sponge into the mouth of God to shut him up
+The Scoffers:
++They railed against Jesus while is struggling to breathe
Jesus Reaction
A Prayer for forgiveness...That he answers
Jesus is the most exclusive truth in the World, you must go to him to be saved
Jesus is the most inclusive truth is the World, all can come to him even if they are evil all the time

Simon of Cyrene
He was assigned at random to carry Jesus' cross - God used this moment to connect simon to Jesus and start a multi generational line of faith
He had two sons Rufus and ???
One of them was named as a leader in the Early Church in Rome
Simon Met jesus and raised two kids to love Jesus

Legacy
God is calling

The Centurion
This is an elite leader of soldiers
He is a man's man who doesn't just hurt people he kills them
He is so compelled by jesus' conduct on the Cross that he comes to faith

The Sinner
He honestly asess himself as a sinner who is humble before his God
When we sin we are not breaking God's law we are breaking God's heart
He looks at Jesus and is given forgiveness

What Happend to Jesus: What is Cruscifixion?
It started with the Persians and impailing for days and it perfected over time until the Roman Crusicifixion
The Stype is the permanent bar in the ground
The Pytibulum is the cross bar that was brought to the site by the condemned
Josehius called crucifixion the most wretched of deaths
Cicero said decent Roman citizen ought not to speak of crusicixion
God saw cursed is AYONE who is hung on a tree
When Spatircus fell in battle 6,000 people were crusified in one day
These would be held in public, like shopping centers
The worst people would show up for crucifixion
+They would bet how long it would take to die would
In early AD, there was a Jewish uprising and the little boy Jesus may have seen the mass crusifixion and realized "That's where I will end up"
THIS IS WHAT WE DID TO GOD
Crucifixion inspired the word Excruciating which literally means from the cross

The Scouging of Jesus


The falling of Jesus under the Cross Bar


Jesus' nailing

Jesus's cross bar was dropped into the hole and the nails torn the most sensitive nerve centers of the human body

Jesus spiritual separation from his Father as he became SIN

Jesus said in a loud voice "IT IS FINISHED", he died with full lungs
He didn't die from asphixiation he died from a literally broken hear resulting from his fall under the cross
It's finished means that anyone who rejects Him has no excuse

Why did the worst thing possible happen to the best Man

"Aleximanus Worships his God" - Ancient Graffiti from a non-Christian

Roman 4 Jesus was delivered up for my tresspasses
Romans 5 While I was rebelling Jesus died for me
+God gave me God, the greatest gift possible
Since I ddn't deserve the Love of God I can never lose it or be disqualified from it

What is the most important Thing to know and to Learn?
Paul "That Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures"

Jesus Rose from Death

Jesus, the Son of God

Ballard Campus 10-16-11 Pastor Mark Driscoll
Tags: Prophesy, trinity
Luke 22:63-71
Jesus, the Son of God

Wouldn't it be fair to hear from the controversial man Jesus Christ instead of what other people say aout him?
His critics are united in opposition to Jesus
Theses trials are a legal means to cover murder

When we lie, it is to gain benefit, If Jesus is not God, then why lie when the result of that lie is to die horribly
Consider being blindfolded and surrounded by young men who want to show their masculinity by beating you as hard as they can.

Jesus has been there with those who have been assaulted.  Jesus knows what being weak and bloodied by cruel men.

Jesus is the Christ
Here we have a night time illegal series of religious and legal trials being beaten by zealous men.
+The Goal is not justice, this is a government sanctioned murder
Their question, the issue is to answer the question are you the only God?
When we lie our motive is to make my life better and prtect ourselves, Jesus has no reason to lie
+He knows murder is the result of saying that he was God.
The beatings started at night, the questions didn't start until the morning
"If you are the Christ, tell us" The returning Messiah from Isaiah
+God's people have been waiting for hundreds of years for the one "from anctient times"

Jesus declares himself to be God in Three ways:
Jesus is the Christ
Q: "Are you the Christ" - The title means are the anointed one who is the deliverer talked about in the books of prophesy.
A: That's what I've been saying, if I tell you again you will not believe it
+Jesus clearly said I am God
+That's why they killed him
Jesus is the Son of Man
A: Jesus said, I am the Son of Man and I will sit at the right hand of God
In Daniel, this Son of Man comes from heaven in the form of a man
+This son of man is presented before God the Father
+All peoples from all times will serve this Son of Man
It is not possible way to make a clearer public declaration of deity

These guys lean forward and all of them ask are you the Son of God?
He says that is what I have been  saying

What are the implications of Jesus saying and being the Son of God?
The Mormons will say yes Jesus is the Son of God
+They mean that men can become gods who knock up women and have kids who are then "sons of gods"
+The Bible say that the Father is Spirit not a physical being
The Muslims think that Jesus did not die on the cross
+If Jesus was a good man who spoke for God and who said he was God but wasn't, then you can't say he was a Good man; he must be a God of a liar who lied so he could die (only an insane man would say that). So to be a logically consistent Muslim you MUST say that Jesus is a madman.

Hermaneutics
Plain Literal - "I'm hungry" means burrito
Figurative literal - "I could eat a horse" is a figure fo speech meaning I want a burrito
Example: the Trinity is kinda like a Father and a Son

Trinity
Gabriel speaking to Mary - An angel said Jesus is the Son of God
Jesus' baptisms - The Father said Jesus was teh Son of God
Satan tempting Jesus - Satan said Jesus was the Son of God
Jesis at his trial said he was the Son of God from his own bloodied mouth
This statement of being the Son of God means that Jesus is of the same stuff as God the Father.
+He was claiming to be the God who created heaven and Earth

WHY WOULD JESUS LIE AND SAY HE WAS GOD UNLESS HE REALLY WAS.

We are just as arrogant and proud and self-righteous as these men who murder innocent God, if we sit in judgement over him.

The Melodic Line

Pastor Justin Holcomb 09-09-10 Ballard Campus
The Melodic Line
There is the Simian Trust Group present
The importance of the succession of notes that give a song a unique / organic quality that sticks with you
Motiffs and figures combined together delivers the force of something done right, something that feels complete
The Melodic Line is the hook that captures my attention

Hamilton's Melodic Line book shows in scripture how the over-arching story of the Bible is communicated using a string of metaphorical notes to tell the story

How to find a Melodic Line for an entire book of the Bible 
A preacher needs to be able to see these lines when they teach books of the Bible so they are focused and effective in communicating the point of the author (the Ghost)
Look for Top Tail of a book / passage
Look for Repetition (Words, concepts, Inclusio {lead-in and close-out character or phrase that act as parantheses for a passage or even book in scripture})
Look for paranthetical structure of text
Look for a thesis statement by the author

Testing for a Melodic Line
Does it frame or make sense of the rest of the text?
Danger: Doing violence to the text - placing a systematic theology over the text

Example - Book for Jude
From 1,2 and 24,25
Possible Melodic Lines:
+"Keep" or "Keeping" appears over and over - Jesus is awesome because he keeps you, this focus on our passivity and Jesus' activity
++But we see an active "contending" as a balance to the passive keeping
+verses 5-16 show the alternative state of being kept in condemnation, now 1-3 and 24-25 are extra important because of the contrast

Themes and sub-themes are important but they are viewed in light of the larger melodic line of the book.

Recognizing Melodic Lines allows a preacher to pull out even more depth from a passage, all the different variations on the same motiff and the sub themes and the figures from a passage show through; the nuances are brought out

The Bible is About Jesus

Ballard Campus 5-29-11 Pastor Mark Driscoll

Tags: Scripture, Prophesy,

Luke 18:31-34

The Bible is about Jesus

"Father rip my heart open with this word to my mind"

Divine Inspiration - God writing a letter to his people through human authors

Pastor Mark did this sermon completely off the cuff and on NO FREAKING SLEEP!!

1551 - Verses added to the Bible

25% of the Bible is the NT

1500 years ~40 Authors 3 languages

400 years of silence between OT and NT

OT 1889 chapters, 31,173 verses

Hundreds of time the authors say "Thus sayeth the lord" - this is a book from God

The Authors saw themselves as messengers from God speaking His words

Is it about Us? About History of a nation? A moralistic tale?

What is the central message of this collection of Books?

Jesus is saying that all the OT authors were talking about the Son of Man and all the little details

1 - Jerusalem is the culmination of Jesus' mission on Earth, he came to Earth to come to Jerusalem and die and rise

Called the city of David because King David was given the original mandate to build God's house

The place where Abraham almost sacrificed his son

"...[the sacrifice] will be provided" - Jesus will come to this same place carrying his own wood as the atonment for the whole world

The temple was forshadowing the coming of God in flesh where the very presense of God would dwell with man

The temple was the connecting place between heaven and Earth where God touches his people

Jesus is prophesying about himeself:

1 - Arrested and handed over to non-Jews

2 - Mocked

3 - Shamefully treated

4 - Spit upon

5 - Flogged

6 - He would die

7 - And how he would die

8 - He would be resurrected to never die again

Everything That I will experience is fulfillment of what God had pre-ordained in all the prophesies, it is impossible for any of the prophesies to not come true

"The Bible is about Me," is what Jesus is saying

If the OT is about Jesus, where does he show up?

Where is Jesus in the Old Testament?

Christophanies - Jesus as eternally pre-existant God breaking in "cameo apperances" - Walked with Abraham, Wrestled Joseph, Spoke to Moses, with Daniel in the furnace, he calls Isaiah into ministry in that crazy vision that was gifted to Isaiah, he provided the alternate sacrifice for Isaac - The angel of the Lord is different from an angel of the Lord, journeyed and ministred to Moses

Types - OT institutions, representatives figures, events that anticipate Jesus' work and coming: Adam is the first man and Jesus is the second Adam, the priest hood - Jesus as our high priest, David as a King Jesus is King of Kings, Moses and other Prophets and Jesus is our ultimate prophet, animal sacrifices with lambs shedding blood as Jesus would later, The temple - God's precesnse dwelling with us as Jesus came to dwell with his people the temple's veil was torn showing that God comes to be with each of his people as the temples, Shepherds caring for their sheep like Jesus, judges rendering verdicts as Jesus the Judge, Bread/vines/light of which Jesus is all to his people

Analogous service - People who do things that Jesus fully accomplishes:

Jesus is...

True and better Adam shown by Jesus passing his test in a garden unlike Adam

True and better Able who was slain though innocent

True and better Issac carrying his own wood to his death

True and better Jaccob who though wounded limped away from his fight

True and better Joseph betrayed for money but exalted by God the Father

True and better Moses who leads God's people out of Slavery to freedom

True and better Job trempted by satan in the Desert

True and better David who though should have been defeated by evil triumphed

True and better Jonah who preached the truth to a city who came to faith

True and better Boaz redeeming Ruth like Jesus will redeem his people

True and better Nehemiah rebuilging the city

True and better Hosea pursuing his whoring wife like Jesus does with his Bride the Church

Events - Events that forshadow the coming and works of Jesus

Exodus narrative where Gods people are redeemed from tryanny and slavery through the shedding of blood - the whole poing of Passover is Jesus, without the shedding of Jesus blood there is no forgiveness for sin

Titles - high name for Jesus describing his roles as God and savior who will setup a Kingdom that will never end

The suffering servant

Bridegroom

Light

Rock

Shepherd

Lord of Glory

Son of Man

Prophesy - the most common category where Jesus shows up in the Bible, a miracle of God where God shows up to reveal the future, these show that the Bible was inspired by God

Years before Jesus...

1000 - Psalm 16 - Holy one will not see corruption, Jesus though dead will not rot away he will rise

1000 - Psalm 22 - My God Why have you forsaken me, Jesus is quoting the Bible and fulfillinf

1000 - Psalm they have pierced my hands and my feet, Hundreds of years before crusifixion is invented

1000 - Psalm 41 - my friend has raised his heel to me (giving him the finger) - Judas will betray Jesus

700 - Isaiah 50 - gave my back to striking, beard pulled out, hid not my face from spitting

700 - Isaiah 52 - apprearance so marred beyond human semblance (an unrecognizeable mess) and high and lifted up (on a cross)

700 - Isaiah 53 - cut off out of the land of the living, burried with the rich in his death, put to grief, out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied - All of this is about the resurrection