Watching Jesus Die
A. A SCENE TOO HORRIBLE TO BELIEVE … MANY DON’T.
B. DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE IN IT? HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOU?
C. OUR FAITH SHOULD DEFINE WHAT WE DO, WHAT WE OUGHT TO DO.
D. Matt. 27:36. THERE WERE THOSE WHO WITNESSED HIS DEATH.
HOW DID WHAT THEY SAW AFFECT THEM? SOME MOCKED.
E. Matt. 27:54. BUT THE DISCIPLES AT FIRST DID NOT BELIEVE HE WAS RAISED.
F. EARLY PREACHING FOCUSED ON HIS DEATH (Acts. 2:22-24; 4:10; 10:38-43).
G WHAT DIFFERENCE DID SEEING MAKE? WHAT DIFFERENCE HEARING?
A. PAUL UNDERSTOOD LOVE THRU THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS (2 Cor. 5:14-15).
B. HE ALSO UNDERSTOOD ITS OBLIGATIONS (vs. 15; Rom. 1:14-15).
C. AND HE LEARNED TO LOVE (1 John 3:16-18; Phil. 1:1-5).
1. Not just affection – DEEDS!
2. Some other’s welfare is as important as your own.
A. OBEDIENCE BELITTLED BY DENOMINATIONS AND INFIDELS.
B. JESUS LIFE EXEMPLIFIED SUBMISSION (John 4:34; 12:27: Matt. 26:39).
C. SEE WHERE IT LED HIM (Phil. 2:5-8) ULTIMATELY (9-11).
D. KEY THOUGHT (Phil. 2:5; 1 Pet. 2:23; 4:19)
E. OUR SALVATION (Heb. 5:7-9; Matt. 7:21).
A. OUR TEXT TELLS OF THE SUFFERING OF JESUS.
B. IT WAS FOR OUR SINS (1 Cor. 15:3; Gal. 1:4; 1 Pet. 2:24).
1. If sin is nothing, then why such a price?
2. If sin is nothing, then grace is nothing?
C. FOR THE CHRISTIAN WHO BACKSLIDES (Heb. 6:4-6; 2 Pet. 2:20-22).
D. SORROW FOR SIN (Jas. 4:8-9; 2 Cor. 7:10).
E. REPENTANCE (Rom. 6:1-3).
A. THE CHURCH (Matt. 16:18; Acts 20:28).
B. BAPTISM (Rom. 6:3-4). We die with him, in a figure (vs. 7).
C. THE LORD’S SUPPER (1 Cor. 11:23-28).
A. ALL WE DO AS CHRISTIANS MEANS MORE WHEN WE CONNECT IT WITH HIS
SUFFERING AND DEATH.
B. WHAT DOES HIS DEATH MEAN TO YOU?