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We’ve covered 12 of 35 of Jesus’ encounters during Passion Week thus far. There is a handout in the foyer for those of you interested in being able to study everything Jesus encountered during Passion Week. Today we will cover four more of the events that took place during Friday of Passion Week.

We’ll be reviewing:

  • Peter’s denial of Jesus (Mt 26:69-75)
  • Pilate’s attempt to release Jesus (Mark 15:6-15)
  • The Crucifixion (Luke 23:33-38)
  • The burial (Mt 27:57-60)

It’s easy to criticize Peter for his spiritual failures. He walked on water, but when he took his eyes off Jesus he sank. He rebuked Jesus when Jesus told the disciples of his coming death and resurrection. Jesus said to Peter, “Get behind me Satan, you are a stumbling block to me, (Mt 16:23) and he denied knowing Jesus three times.

In my research I found a quote that stood out to me. “Jesus had expressly commanded the disciples not to follow Him. “If you are looking for me, then let these men go.” (John 18:8b). If Peter had listened to the Word and obeyed it, he would never have failed the Lord in such a humiliating way.” (Wiersbe Bible Commentary, NT, page 80)

Mt 26:31-35

31 Then Jesus told them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written: “‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

32 But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”

33 Peter replied, “Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will.”

34 “I tell you the truth,” Jesus answered, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.”

35 But Peter declared, “Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you.” And all the other disciples said the same.

We don’t know what’s going to happen in the future. Jesus did. Even with Peter’s failures Jesus knew that he would be redeemed and would be a key leader in the early church.

Peter wept bitterly when he realized what he had done. We are going to mess up too. We have an advantage over Peter, we have the Holy Spirit dwelling inside of us leading us into God’s truth. Yes, Peter walked with Jesus, but it wasn’t until Jesus was crucified that the Spirit came to dwell in men at Pentecost.

We have the Spirit of God in us, but we still deny His power in our lives when things don’t go the way we want them too. Do you weep bitterly when you realize how you have denied Jesus in your actions or inactions? We should thank God that He redeems us like He redeemed Peter. God forgives us, we need to learn how to forgive ourselves.

Pilate attempts to release Jesus:

John 18:39, 40

39 But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?”

40 They shouted back, “No, not him! Give us Barabbas!” Now Barabbas had taken part in a rebellion.

We’ve heard it said, “If you were tried in a court of law for being a Christian, would they find enough evidence to convict you?”

Jesus found himself before Pilate, accused by the Jews as being a criminal worthy of death. Because of his position, he was governor, he was the one to sentence Jesus to death. Jesus was guilty of only one thing, love in the first degree.

Pilate made four attempts in his dealings with Jesus to have him released.

  1. He tried to put the responsibility of judging Jesus on someone else. (John 18:31 – “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.” “But we have no right to execute anyone,” the Jews objected.)
  2. He tried to find a way of escape so he could release Jesus. (John 18:39 – But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?”)
  3. He tried to compromise by having Jesus flogged rather than handing him over to die.

John 19:1-5

1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.

2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe

3 and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they struck him in the face.

4 Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”

5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

  1. He tried a direct appeal to the sympathy of the accusers. (John 19:15 – But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!” “Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered.)

The reality is everybody must decide what to do with Jesus. Pilate tried to let everyone else decide for him, and in the end he lost. What have you decided to do with Jesus? Your eternity rests on how you answer this question.

The crucifixion:

Luke 23:33-38

33 When they came to the place called the Skull, there they crucified him, along with the criminals– one on his right, the other on his left.

34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.

35 The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.”

36 The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar

37 and said, “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.”

38 There was a written notice above him, which read: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

It was never the goal of Jesus to save himself. From the very beginning, the goal was to save us by dying in our place’ paying the sin debt we owed for us. One questions I want us to consider is, what are we doing with our saved life out of thankfulness for what Jesus willingly did?

As I worked on this sermon this question came to me, what assignment has God given to me (to you) to do for His kingdom that He is not asking anybody else to do? Jesus was the only one tasked with dying to save humanity from their sins. We are we tasked with?

Jesus was crucified as a criminal along with two other criminals. One criminal said, “Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!” He wasn’t sorrowful for his sinful life; he was sorrowful because he got caught and was being punished for his crimes.

The other criminal rebuked him, “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.” Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” Jesus answered him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.” (Luke 23:39-43)

Even while He was dying Jesus was still saving souls.

Jesus is recorded as saying multiple life changing statements. This one must be in the top ten, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”

Then He died.

The burial:

Mt 27:57-60

57 As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus.

58 Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.

59 Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

60 and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away.

When Lazarus died, he was in the tomb for four days. Jesus called him by name to come out of the tomb and he did. If Jesus could call Lazarus from the dead after four days, then for God to call Jesus from the dead after three days was enough for the Pharisees to request from Pilate guards to secure the tomb preventing Jesus’ disciples from stealing the body.

Mt 27:62-66

62 The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate.

63 “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

64 So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.”

65 “Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.”

66 So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.

We don’t worry about our loved ones that have died in the Lord rising from the dead after 3 or 4 days. They will rise at the second coming of Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

13 Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope.

14 We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.

15 According to the Lord’s own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.

16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

18 Therefore encourage each other with these words.

 

 

 

Topic: Passover Week Part Four (Good Friday)

Text: Mt 26:69-75

69 Now Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came to him. “You also were with Jesus of Galilee,” she said.

70 But he denied it before them all. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said.

71 Then he went out to the gateway, where another girl saw him and said to the people there, “This fellow was with Jesus of Nazareth.”

72 He denied it again, with an oath: “I don’t know the man!”

73 After a little while, those standing there went up to Peter and said, “Surely you are one of them, for your accent gives you away.”

74 Then he began to call down curses on himself and he swore to them, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately a rooster crowed.

75 Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: “Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.

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