The Crucifixion of Christ

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The Crucifixion of Christ

• is at the core of the plan of salvation!
• has an even deeper meaning for the Christian.
• Look again at the illustration of the crucified
  Christ

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The Illustration

• Christ died on the cross.
• When we become a Christian, we put the old man of
  sin to death on the cross with Jesus.
• Once we have died, we rise with Jesus to walk in
  newness of life (Romans 64).

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The Crucifixion of Christ

• is at the core of the plan of salvation!
• has an even deeper meaning for the Christian.
• Look again at the illustration of the crucified
  Christ
• Hear again the lesson of the crucified Christ

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The Lesson

• While our old man is hanging on the cross, let us
  hear what Jesus saysliterally.
• Lets hear the seven messages of Jesus from the
  cross and apply them to the illustrations of the
  old man dying and the new man emerging.

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It Is Finished

• John 1930

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It Is Finished

• These were the final words of Jesusat the end of
  His journey.
• He had completed His mission.
• He had become sin for us, andbore the
  consequences of sinfor us.
• He was the innocent Lambof God.

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But Who Else Is On The Cross?

• The old man of sin.
• The old man that was crucified with Him.
• The old man of sin should repeat the same words
• It is finished
• My life of sin is dead its over
• The body of sin is done away with (Romans 66)
• We are no longer slaves of sin

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I Thirst

• John 1928

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I Thirst

• We often forget that this is a fulfillment of
  prophecy (Psalm 6921 And for my thirst they
  gave me vinegar to drink.).
• This shows the humanity of Christ.
• This also shows the deity of Christ through the
  fulfillment of all prophecies even one that
  might seem (to us) insignificant.

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I Thirst

• But listen again to what Jesus saysI thirst
  and apply it to the onewho would follow after
  Him!
• Matthew 56 Blessed arethose who hunger and
  thirstafter righteousness, for theyshall be
  filled
• This points to our desire for Godand His word!

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I Thirst

• When we become a Christian, our focus and desire
  should change to spiritual concerns.
• Revelation 216 And He said to me, It is
  done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning
  and the End. I will give of the fountain of the
  water of life freely to him who thirsts.
• Who will receive the water of life?
• The one who thirsts
• The one who has the right attitude and the right
  focus
• Can you survive without the living water?

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Woman, Behold Your SonBehold Your Mother!

• John 1926-27

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Woman, Behold Your SonBehold Your Mother!

• Listen to the words again from theperspective of
  the old man whois hanging on the cross with
  Jesus.
• Do you remember what Jesus hadsaid previously
  about His family?
• Luke 820-21
• Luke 1253

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Luke 820-21 1253

• And it was told Him by some, who said, Your
  mother and Your brothers are standing outside,
  desiring to see You.
• 21 But He answered and said to them, My mother
  and My brothers are these who hear the word of
  God and do it.
• Father will be divided against son and son
  against father, mother against daughter and
  daughter against mother, mother-in-law against
  her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against
  her mother-in-law.

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Woman, Behold Your SonBehold Your Mother!

• Families will be divided because of the old man
  hanging on the cross with Christ.
• But when we become a Christian, we gain a new
  family.
• When we come down from the cross, we are born
  anew.
• Not convinced? Read Acts 2 and the start of the
  early church!

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Father, Forgive Them, For They Do Not Know What
They Do

• Luke 2334

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Father, Forgive Them

• This is one of the most remarkable messages we
  hear Jesus say.
• Luke 2333 And when they had come to the place
  called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the
  criminals, one on the right hand and the other on
  the left.
• Then, Jesus asks God to forgive them.

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Father, Forgive Them

• What a remarkable Savior we have!
• Even in death, His humility, love,and merciful
  nature aremanifested.
• Can you imagine having thesame type attitude if
  those thingswere done to you?

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Father, Forgive Them

• Listen again to Jesus words on the cross.
• When we rise to walk in newness of life, what
  type of spirit should we display?
• If we want God to forgive us, we had better be
  ready to forgive others!

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Father, Forgive Them

• Does our righteousness exceed that of the
  worlds?
• Are we different from the world?
• Have we truly been crucified with Christ?
• This morning
• Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with
  Me in Paradise
• My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
• Father, in Your hands I commend My spirit.

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Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with
Me in Paradise

• Luke 2343

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Luke 2339-40

• Then one of the criminals who were hanged
  blasphemed Him, saying, If You are the Christ,
  save Yourself and us.
• 40 But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying,
  Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under
  the same condemnation?

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You will be with me in Paradise

• Look at the amazing faith on thepart of the one
  criminal!
• Hes watching Jesus die.
• And he realizes that Jesus isstill going to
  establish Hiskingdom.
• Jesus recognizes that faith, andpromises him
  Paradise.

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How does that apply to us?

• Our old man of sin is hanging on the cross with
  Jesus.
• Perhaps we could explain that we have the same
  hope as the criminalif we have faith like he
  did.
• But also think about it this way
• Jesus had power on earth to forgive sins.
• He had the right to promise Paradise to this
  man.
• No one else has this ability!

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What should be our focus?

• After we have died to sin and have started our
  new lives
• our focus should be to take others where we are
  going!
• Just like our Lord!
• How many have you influenced in such a way that
  they will want to go to Heaven?

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My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?

• Mark 1534

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Mark 1534

• And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a
  loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama
  sabachthani? which is translated, My God, My
  God, why have You forsaken Me?

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Why have You forsaken Me?

• In these words, we hear the reality of Jesus
  pain and suffering.
• We are reminded of the suffering of Jesus in the
  Garden of Gethsemane.
• Being in agony.
• Father, let this cup pass from Me.
• Sweat as drops of blood.
• In order for the plan to be accomplished, God had
  to turn His back on His Son.

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Why have you forsaken Me?

• What was the answer to Jesusquestion?
• It was because of our sins.
• We should always be remindedthat it is because
  of our sinsthat Jesus had to die!
• As our old man is hanging onthe cross with
  Jesus, we should remember the words of the
  criminal

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Luke 2341

• And we indeed justly, for we receive the due
  reward of our deeds but this Man has done
  nothing wrong.

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Why have You forsaken Me?

• We are forever indebted to our Lord for that
  sacrifice!
• Romans 812 We are debtors
• Does knowing Jesus died because of your sin lead
  you to live a life of service to Him?

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Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit

• Luke 2346

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Luke 2344-46

• Now it was about the sixth hour, and there was
  darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
  45 Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the
  temple was torn in two. 46 And when Jesus had
  cried out with a loud voice, He said, Father,
  into Your hands I commit My spirit. Having
  said this, He breathed His last.

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Father, into Your hands

• Jesus put His trust in His Father.
• This was a new experiencefor Him.
• Death is a scary thought.
• But He faced it by turning itover to His Father.

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Father, into Your hands

• Becoming a Christian can be intimidating,
  nerve-wracking, and even scary.
• But we just turn it over to God!
• Not my will, but Thy will be done
• When we allow that old man to breathe his last,
  and we rise to walk in newness of life
• We turn our lives over to God.
• We let Him direct our spirits.

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The Application

• The old man has died.
• The new man emerges
• Listen to the words of Jesus in John 141-6

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John 141-3

• Let not your heart be troubled you believe in
  God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Fathers house
  are many mansions if it were not so, I would
  have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3
  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will
  come again and receive you to Myself that where
  I am, there you may be also.

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John 144-6

• And where I go you know, and the way you know.
  5 Thomas said to Him, Lord, we do not know where
  You are going, and how can we know the way?
• 6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth,
  and the life. No one comes to the Father except
  through Me.

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