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

The Father of a Murdered Son

Ballard Campus 7-10-11 Pastor Mark Driscoll
Tags: Parable, Wrath, Murder
Luke 19:11-27
The Father of a Murdered Son
Jesus wants us to see the world and history from the perspective of God.
Should we put ourselves in the position of judge over God?
+We are the guilty trying to place ourselves on the Bemis seat.
Jesus is trying to open our understanding so we can gain a right perspective
Parable
There is a landowner who cultived the land by planting the vineyard and then went away - This is God the Father, the owner of everything
+He is not only a landowner but he is a father with an heir
In the OT there are 14 references to God as Father (always as the father of a nation)
There is a vineyard - This would have been the nation and people of Israel, see Isaiah 6, see the Temple with a gold vine with jewels in place of fruit - the Vine was a national symbol (like the maple leaf represents Canada)
There are Tenants  - they are like renters who pay money to the lanlord based on what they make of the grapes
+These guys make a profit, they get greedy and don't pay their rent, they are stealing, They are basically saying, "This land doesn't belong to the landowner, it's mine"
+These guys are like the religious people who don't lead people toward repentance rather they are selling their voice to tell people what they want to hear
This parable is a rebuke of corrupt religious leader and a system that is not speaking for God
The First Servant - he preaches reptentance, he is like a prophet sent in the OT and John the Baptist
The Second Servant - he preaches reptentance, he is like a prophet sent in the OT and John the Baptist
The Third Servant - he preaches reptentance, he is like a prophet sent in the OT and John the Baptist
+The Prophets lives sucked, they were alone and called to preach to hard-hearted people who would not yield to the Holy Spirit, they would just try and often succeed in killing them
Humanity kept doing to the servants of God
Then the Father send his Beloved Son - He is Jesus
+He comes to mediate the disagreement and help the tenants
They decide to steal the land finally, they kill the son.
+This is the Story of the World from the Perspective of God
God loves so when his kid is murdered GOD MUST GET ANGRY
What does the Father Do?
Hell makes perfect sense - We hate God, we reject Him, We kill his servants, and finally we kill his Son - IT SHOULD GO BAD FOR US
The landowning father will destroy the renters - God will set aside the nation of Israel and work through other people
The commentators - Jesus is refering to the story of a particular stone that looked wrong to the builders, it was rejected and thrown to the scrap heap, then after laying everything out they see that that one odd-ball stone was the perfect one to be the cornerstone, so they reclaimed that stone, and used it to build the Temple
....
What I must do is start with Jesus and then build my life on that
If I don't then Jesus will be like the stone that crushes me
Jesus Says I died, If you renpent then I will take my death and count it to cover your eternal debt
The Father says if you take my son's offer, then I'll adopt you into my family and give you my family name of Christian
Oh and by the way since you were greedy to get my stuff I'll give you an eternal inheritance
Scandalous
Are there any aspects of my life where Jesus is not the cornerstone?
Are there any aspects of my life where I am acting like the wicked tenants?
Are there any aspects of my life where I am not a fruitful like the vine?

Heaven & Hell

Ballard Campus 3-20-11 Pastor Mark Driscoll

Tags: Video, Hell

Luke 16:19-31

Heaven and Hell

How to Cushion the word to come:

PM is asking me for his trust as he shares the truth.

PM speaks for his love for the church.

Sharing his heart first so the words are taken as the brutal words of a friend trying to help

Options for Belief about life after death:

Naturalists - cesation of existence

Universalists - Everyone goes to heaven, very few will go to hell or maybe it's just a myth

Christian-ism - over time we will all be united to Jesus and all end up in heaven

Reincarnation - paying off karmic debt

Annihilationism - Sinners suffer for a while and then cease to exist

Catholic Purgatory - We suffer for a whil and then are purified

Bible - What does Jesus say? What does the Word say?

The most loving person that has ever lived speaks very brutally about Hell

Our sin must be unbearably horrible

The Body and Soul

2Cor 5 - We are two parts, immaterial and material existence

Rich Man & Lazarus

Lazarus died

Rich man died - In Anguish, Torment, Flame...

Moses and the Prophets is sufficient to convince someone to love God

Lazarus means "God Comforts"

Impoverished, crippled, sickly, he loved God

All he wanted was to eat the food that was accidentally dropped on the rich man's floor.

There is no way to cross from hell to heaven

Elevating God's Attributes:

Love is an attribute of God, but elevating it about all of his other attributes

The attribute Wrath is mentioned 600 times

The most often mentioned attribute of God is his Holiness

If God were to let all into heaven he would be denying his Holiness

Gospel

John 3 - Eternal life comes with obedience to God, but Hell filled with God's Wrath remains on me

Questions about Hell: (from The City)

1 What is Hell? What is Hell like?

Mark 9 - Gehena, a place where children were murdered, a cursed place, the town dump, a place where there was always fire burning and rotting flesh being eaten by worms

2 Is it possible for people can deny God and then later realize the truth after death?

No, Luke 16 - the rich man couldn't change his location, he is stuck there

Hebrews 9 - we die once and then there is judgement

3 Why does God make poeple who will never will repent and always reject him?

We are in no way innocent, we reject him even with our conscience and the law.

Our sin brought war to God, we ruined everything

Is makes sense for a convicted guilty criminal to go to Prison, why is is strange for a convicted guilty sinner to be denied access to heaven?

The really F-ed up thing is that God would opt to come into this corrupted twisted world where all the people who ruined his creation live, then he would humble himself be mocked, brutalized, and murdered

What an arrogant position to judge God, this is the same thing that brought evil into the world in the first place

Matt 25:41 Hell was made for Satan and his angels, for our protection

4 Is hell temporary, or do the souls of the damned get destroyed? (Matt 10)

Soul is destroyed in Hell

The same word used (destroyed) and translated as "lost" in the parable in Luke

Dan 12 - the dead will arrise to everlasting contempt

5 When we are in heaven, will we know of loved ones in Hell?

There are secret thing we do not know

Jesus will comfort us by wiping away all of our tears, we may have tears in heaven but Jesus will love us flawlessly

Philippians1 to live is Christ and to die is gain

6a Will everyone who doesn't know Jesus go to Hell?

Yes

John 14 - No one comes to the father, but be me

Hinduism No, mormonism No, Nice people No, religious people No

Acts 4 - Salvation in Jesus alone

6b What about people who died w/o ever hearing about Jesus.

God is a good Father, he is our hope and our help, he will make the right call for all.

"My job is so tell you the truth, and your job is to make a decision"