THE PRICE!!!!
Don’t let His suffering and death go in vain.
Receive the benefits
and
Tell others of the Good News!
Remember,
“It’s Friday but Sunday is Coming”
If we were to start Day 6 from the evening or night of
Day 5,
we begin to see
the price Jesus paid for you and I.
Jesus is betrayed with a kiss by his friend Judas.
This morning as Sandy and I kissed before she left for
work,
I commented to her how wonderful the kiss was.
It is hard to comprehend that someone could use
something so wonderful to betray another. Luke
22:47 & 48
Peter bold enough to pull the sword
and cut off the servant of the high priest’s ear
to defend Jesus, (John
18:10)
denies knowing Jesus three times;
when the rooster crows,
Jesus and Peter’s eyes meet
as the last fighting man leaves Christ alone. Luke
22:61
The temple leaders were not trying to help Jesus
but looking to any means,
even false testimony to find some way
to put Him to death.
When Jesus was brought before the law of the land,
He found no justice
even though found innocent.
When the choice was made to release one of two men,
a murderer was chosen
and the cry for Jesus to be crucified.
Mocked, flogged, beaten, and given a cross to bear.
Nailed to the cross and hung between two thieves
as His mother watched the cruelty inflicted on her son.
All this was to fulfill the scriptures. John
19:36
After the sky grew black
and as the last of the life blood of Jesus fell to the
ground,
the last ounce of hope was drained from every follower
of Christ.
And the lifeless flesh of Jesus
was put into a cold stone tomb.
What would you pay to have every offense you have ever
made,
an action, a word that hurt someone else, forgiven?
What would you pay to have health when you are sick?
What would you pay to live forever
where there is no sin, sickness, sorrow, and pain?
What would you pay to have God love you?
FORGET IT - YOU CAN’T AFFORD IT!!!!!!!!
BUT
There is hope - it came on the 6th day of
the 8 day week.
God said,
IT
IS FINISHED!
I
PAID THE PRICE!
Scripture Reading
Luke 22:47-48
47 While he was still
speaking a crowd came up,
and the man who was
called Judas,
one of the Twelve,
was leading them.
He approached Jesus
to kiss him,
48 but Jesus asked
him,
"Judas, are you
betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?"
John 18:7-14
7 Again he asked
them, "Who is it you want?"
And they said,
"Jesus of Nazareth."
8 "I told you
that I am he," Jesus answered.
"If you are
looking for me, then let these men go."
9 This happened so that the words he had spoken
would be fulfilled:
"I have not lost
one of those you gave me."
10 Then Simon Peter,
who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his
right ear. (The servant's name was Malchus.)
11 Jesus commanded
Peter, "Put your sword away!
Shall I not drink the
cup the Father has given me?"
12 Then the
detachment of soldiers with its commander
and the Jewish
officials arrested Jesus.
They bound him 13 and
brought him first to Annas,
who was the
father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.
14 Caiaphas was the
one who had advised the Jews
that it would be good
if one man died for the people.
Luke 22:60-62
60 Peter replied,
"Man, I don't know what you're talking about!"
Just as he was
speaking, the rooster crowed.
61 The Lord turned
and looked straight at Peter.
Then Peter remembered
the word the Lord had spoken to him:
"Before the
rooster crows today, you will disown me three times."
62 And he went
outside and wept bitterly.
Mark 14:55-56
55 The chief priests
and the whole Sanhedrin
were looking for
evidence against Jesus
so that they could
put him to death,
but they did not find
any.
56 Many testified
falsely against him,
but their statements
did not agree.
John 18:38-40
38 "What is
truth?" Pilate asked.
With this he went out
again to the Jews and said,
"I find no basis
for a charge against him.
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.
Matthew 26:65-68
65 Then the high
priest tore his clothes and said,
"He has spoken
blasphemy!
Why do we need any
more witnesses?
Look, now you have
heard the blasphemy.
66 What do you
think?"
"He is worthy of
death," they answered.
67 Then they spit in
his face and struck him with their fists.
Others slapped him 68
and said, "Prophesy to us, Christ. Who hit you?"
John 19:1-6
19:1 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!"
6 As soon as the
chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted,
"Crucify!
Crucify!"
John 19:16-20
16 Finally Pilate
handed him over to them to be crucified.
So the soldiers took
charge of Jesus.
17 Carrying his own
cross, he went out to the place of the Skull
(which in Aramaic is
called Golgotha).
18 Here they
crucified him, and with him two others
— one on each side
and Jesus in the middle.
19 Pilate had a
notice prepared and fastened to the cross.
It read: JESUS OF
NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
John 19:24-20:1
This happened that
the scripture might be fulfilled which said,
"They divided my
garments among them and cast lots for my clothing."
So this is what the
soldiers did.
25 Near the cross of
Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister,
Mary the wife of
Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 When Jesus saw his
mother there,
and the disciple whom
he loved standing nearby,
he said to his mother, "Dear woman, here
is your son,"
27 and to the
disciple, "Here is your mother."
From that time on,
this disciple took her into his home.
28 Later, knowing
that all was now completed,
and so that the
Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I am thirsty."
29 A jar of wine
vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it,
put the sponge on a
stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus' lips.
30 When he had
received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished."
With that, he bowed
his head and gave up his spirit.
31 Now it was the day
of Preparation,
and the next day was
to be a special Sabbath.
Because the Jews did
not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath,
they asked Pilate to
have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.
32 The soldiers
therefore came and broke the legs of the first man
who had been
crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other.
33 But when they came
to Jesus and found that he was already dead,
they did not break
his legs.
34 Instead, one of
the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear,
bringing a sudden
flow of blood and water.
35 The man who saw it
has given testimony, and his testimony is true.
He knows that he
tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe.
36 These things
happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled:
"Not one of his
bones will be broken," 37 and, as
another scripture says,
"They will look
on the one they have pierced."
38 Later, Joseph of
Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus.
Now Joseph was a
disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jews.
With Pilate's
permission, he came and took the body away.
39 He was accompanied
by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night.
Nicodemus brought a
mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.
40 Taking Jesus'
body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen.
This was in
accordance with Jewish burial customs.
41 At the place where
Jesus was crucified, there was a garden,
and in the garden a
new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.
42 Because it was the
Jewish day of Preparation
and since the tomb
was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
