John 19:16-22 The King upon the skull

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well that was an absolute blessing to be able to sing that song like I said that was the first time that we've ever sung and I think is absolutely beautiful and thank you for all your guys's help with with Shepherd I can't listen

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I was looking back and everybody's giving me thumbs up it takes it takes a what's the saying it takes a tribe a village to tell raise a kid that's that's fact

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I think it might take three for him anyway but it's a blessing so thank you guys for that today we're gonna be in John chapter 19 verses 16 through 22 so I would invite you to start turning that way if you have your your your

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Bibles with you or whatever device that you have with you that can do that please turn that way John 19 verses 16 through 22 and and once again church this is this is a text that is there's a lot of solemnness that comes with this a lot of breathing a lot of sadness a lot of wickedness that we see in here and I just want to remind us before you even start jumping into it even before we begin praying this story does not end at the death of Christ so when you see these despairing things and we see this wickedness and evil and sin and and almost what appears to be a defeat of Christ when we see these things we need always remember that the resurrection is just a few days away from this text and so he triumphs over these things he does these things he has authority over them he's decreed him to be the way that they are and and so we see that in his resurrection that we take great confidence and what he did and claimed to be and so on that note let us let us pray to God Lord we just thank you for this day we thank you for children in this in this church

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Lord we thank you for for parents and friends and family and and those that would be willing to watch our children as they grow

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Lord God I would just pray that as we continue in our own personal growth in knowing you and in increasing in our in our love and dedication towards you and truly having you increase in our life

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Lord that we would also help try to raise this next generation in a likewise manner that they might know you and that this next generation would be fearful of you

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God I would just pray that you would be praised in each one of our individual walks and Lord I would just pray also that this text it might help sanctify us here today and so God we just say these things in your name

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Jesus Christ amen so if you want to like I said please open up to John 19 verses 16 through 22 so it's going to be our selected text for today and I think it might be not to not to go over some other really sad text but let's read a little bit a couple verses before just help us remind us where we're at in today's text we're let's start in verse 12 and read through 15 and then we'll get into the selected text it says in verse 12 as a result of this pilot made efforts to release him but the

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Jews cried out saying if you release this man you are no friend of Caesar everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes

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Caesar when pilot therefore heard these words he brought

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Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat of the place called the pavement but in Hebrew Gabbatha now it was the day of preparation for the

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Passover it was about the sixth hour and he said to the Jews behold your king they therefore cried out away with him away with him crucify him

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Pilate said to them shall I crucify your king the chief priests answered we have no king but Caesar I just want to just let us help us remind us from last week's text that we look through verse 13 on to 15 we see pilot looking down on Christ looking down upon the crown of thorns looking down upon the very stripes upon his back from the scourging that took place moments before and we see pilot give the sentence of behold your king behold the king of the

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Jews and so pilot has delivered a sentence to Jesus in that text that that Jesus is a king and he says behold your king to the

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Jews themselves so we need to remember this and the Jews then cry out away with him away with him crucify him and that we have no king but Caesar that those kind of words resonate in our minds when we approach the to this future text that we're about to read so in our in our in our selected text for today verses 16 through 22 let us read that so he then delivered him to them to be crucified they took

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Jesus therefore and he went out bearing his own cross to the place called or to the place called the place of the school which in Hebrew is called

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Golgotha they there for their there they crucified him and with him two other men one on either side and Jesus in between and pilot wrote an inscription also and put it on the cross and it was written

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Jesus the Nazarene the king of the Jews therefore this inscription many of the

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Jews read for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city and it was written in Hebrew Latin and in Greek and so the chief priests of the

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Jews were saying to pilot do not write the king of the

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Jews but that he said I am the king of the Jews pilot answered what

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I have written I have written let us pray over this text Lord God what a privilege it is to come before you today and worship and in studying and an effort to understand this text better Lord God with the weight of the cross on your shoulders we want to have a similar weight upon our own backs as we examine this text

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Lord God let us continue to remember that you are our King and that you're the king of kings and Lord of Lords and and God let us not ever forget such a statement as that Lord you receive this inscription above your head on a cross and Lord we just praise you for what you have done on the cross and your death very own resurrection that you have brought many men unto yourself so Lord let us let us remember where our salvation is from this hill of Calvary and let us not ever forget that it is only on that hill that we are saved and so Lord you just say these things in your holy name

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Jesus Christ amen so going back to verse 16 it says in here so that he then delivered him to them to be crucified and this statement comes right after like we just read previously before we pray it comes after the fact that Jesus has already been given a sentence of not guilty three times by Pilate it comes after Jesus has received the sentence of behold your king and the

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Pilate's or not the Pilate's the Jews the Jews were not satisfied with even the punishment that Christ had already received for absolutely no reason and so we see their absolute injustice their wickedness their sin and saying away with him away with him crucify crucify they they keep on demanding a pilot that that sentence is not enough but the crown of thorns that was not enough the the beating not enough the scarlet robe not enough the scourging not enough away with him away with him crucify him that rains out from their tongue as they hate who

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Christ is and so pilot this is this is where we see even more injustice coming from the judgment seat of pilot in his day he's already passed a judgment he's already done it he should let

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Jesus go but he doesn't it says in verse 16 so then he delivered them him

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Christ over to be crucified pilot has now tired of hearing the cries of the

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Jews tired of continuing to play this game of trying to satisfy what they want has now given them him over to them he's given that him over to their wishes and you would church this is this is unfathomable that this would even take place in the way that it does we today would not even let a criminal that's that is we wouldn't allow this kind of thing to take place in our own court system today it just doesn't happen like this

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I want to read Acts 4 7 27 through 29 as we read that to twice last week

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I think it's very important that as we read what pilot is doing in this text and read what the

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Jews are doing in this text we need to be continually reminded what acts chapter 4 27 9 says acts chapter 4 27 through 29 and as you're turning there

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I also want to remind you church that the amount of fulfillment that takes place in this prophecy or not in this prophecy but the amount of prophecy that takes place and fulfilled in Christ in this time we could take every verse here and break it up to into several messages and we would walk away after a year of going through this text of Christ's crucifixion account very very knowledgeable and very very well versed in this and I don't think that's what we should do though I think we need to look at this and examine it and continue on unto his resurrection and so we're we're continuing on taking and taking these these a little bit larger abides of Scripture and still examining them very thoroughly but just know that we could if we wanted to we could be in this text of John 19 for over a year we really could be we can look at every gospel account we can look at everything that Christ says we could we can look at everything that was going on around Christ when this happens but we're going to just be trying to focus on what

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John has recorded here for us and so but Acts chapter 4 verses 27 through 29 it says in here for truly in this city there were gathered together against thy holy servant

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Jesus whom now this anoint both Herod and Pontius Pilate this is this is

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Peter speaking about what God has done who is both anointed or as anointed both

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Herod or anointed yet both Herod and Pontius Pilate along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel to do whatever thy hand and thy purpose predestined to occur and now

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Lord take note of their threats and grant that thy bondservants may speak thy word with all confidence and so Peter here is speaking in great confidence when he's bought for these

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Jews that he's speaking of in this day and he says in there to continue to grant himself the sovereign will of God to grant that he continues to speak with this great confidence that we see in here and he says that even so him in that moment

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God is being sovereign over in verse 28 he says that the the whole Herod Pontius Pilate the

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Gentiles and the peoples of Israel the Jews it was all God's sovereignty that was taking place in here it was all

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God's predestined will that was taking place in here and so we see that even though Pontius Pilate and what we would say that absolutely that is injustice that Pontius Pilate has done that and that is absolute wickedness and there's no way that that would take place today and there's no way it should have taken place back then we hear

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Jesus Christ and John three years before the crucifixion say I must be lifted up this was going to take place this had to take place and it's because God had predestined it to take place and so do not think in here that there is any slightest chance of Jesus being released there isn't every step that he takes to Calvary is of the sovereign design and we need to remember this and so back in John 19 now we see in here so he then delivered him to them to be crucified so so so Peter has now said enough is enough you now get your wishes you get what you want

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Jews and in verse 17 it says they took Jesus therefore and by the day what who is the day in this text if the

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Roman cohort as we read from other gospel accounts for the ones that scorched his back there's no doubt that those are the same men that are leading

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Christ to Calvary so now that paints the picture even more vividly that in this this ascent to this hill of Calvary this hill of gold at the place of the school he's being led by an army and not only that but he also has other evildoers with him that are walking with him and not only that but he's being followed by the

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Jews and not only that but he's being followed by the common people and so the day is a large large number of people that we see in this text that are taking

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Christ to the cross and let's compare the they that large number with who follows

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Christ to that cross do we see the eleven apostles in this time no there's very few that actually follow him there how many of the disciples any of the followers that have been following Christ for the last three and a half years or are following Christ to his crucifixion no not that very many we seen other accounts that he talks about a disciple being there and his mother being there and and so on and so forth but they're the difference

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I want to paint in this picture for us Church is seeing the amount of evil men that have been gathered against Christ and the lack of those that followed him there they therefore took him

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Jesus therefore he went out bearing his own cross to the place of the place called the place of the school which is a call in Hebrew Golgotha now what what what is taking place in here is is once again a tremendous prophetic fulfillment that we see all over the

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Old Testament there's something that we need to add in here that that isn't recorded in the book of the

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Gospel of John we won't turn to the other Gospels but I'm sure that you're familiar with there's a gentleman named

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Simon thank you a gentleman named Simon who helps Christ carry his cross and so this gentleman named

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Simon that's not recorded here in the Gospel of John he's talked about later in the epistles that his whole family actually comes to have faith in Christ and so we even see in his ascent to Calvary that this man that was there most likely there to celebrate the

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Passover he was probably traveled he was there to celebrate the Passover was probably no doubt convicted when he saw this

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Messiah carrying a cross and no doubt took that message back to his wife and took that message back to his two children that is talked about and I believe it's in Acts chapter 18 don't quote me on that or Romans chapter 3 it's it's there

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I promise that his two children they'll end up having faith in Christ and it sounds like they've become friends with the

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Apostles of Christ and so we see this this this sense of salvation that takes place here in John 17 it's or 8 19 17 it's not recorded here but it's recorded in other

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Gospels and so the Jesus therefore goes out to this place called the school and he's bearing upon his back this cross and this needs to be remembered upon us what has already happened to the back of Christ scourging he's already received these terrible afflictions of wounds upon his back and now he's having this pressure of a cross being placed upon his shoulders this once again the sense of pain that is talked about in this text is tremendous absolutely tremendous and so he's carrying it to the place called the school which in Hebrew is called

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Colbetha I I don't know if any of us know this in here but that word

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Golgotha and the place of the school in Latin is translated into a word

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I can't say but in English the way we would pronounce it as Calvary and so that's where we get the word

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Calvary is that it literally means the place of the school it's the hill upon which Christ died upon in Latin and so because we don't necessarily need to always say the place of the school is where Christ was crucified we can say

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Christ was crucified on Calvary or if you want to say in Hebrew you say it in Golgotha that's however you would like to say it but Christ is taken to Calvary he's taken to Golgotha he's taken to the place of the school and there's a little bit of debate amongst scholars and and archaeologists and theologians upon where exactly in Jerusalem today where Christ was crucified and there's a couple different theories about where it took place at there's actually even some

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Jewish tradition which this to to to me the this gets to there it doesn't explicitly say any of this in the text and so therefore it's fun to think about these things but don't hold a doctrine on any of these things it's

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Jewish tradition that this Mount Moriah that Abraham offered Isaac on is the exact same place where Christ was crucified and not only that but many

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Jewish traditions would also say that it's also the exact same dust that Adam was taken out of to be created and so there's this sense of that taking place there don't hold doctrine to that that's just tradition and has been speculated not talked about in the text but this place of the school once again is debated there's there's different heels that are put out that if you look at it from above it looks like a school or if you look at it from the side it this place looks like a school and or maybe it was over here because that's right outside of the gate on this area it ultimately doesn't matter what what matters is the place that they called it was the place of the school and there is much

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I think much fulfillment that takes place in here in Genesis chapter John Genesis chapter 3 verse 15 we won't necessarily have to turn there we read though from Genesis the same prophecy last week when we talked about or maybe two weeks ago when we talked about the thorns being put on Christ's head and how that was a thorns that were meant for Adam and his descendants that for on the field thorns and thistles would grow but yet Christ received the thorns and thistles upon his head that which was supposed to steam the man's foot is now on our

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Kings head and so now we also see in Genesis 3 15 that to Eve it is said or actually to the serpent has said that her seed you shall bruise his hill but he shall crush your head to the serpent and so I don't think there is any silly or any any any chance that this place was called a place of school out of randomness there is a direct meaning that that has in there that this school is representative of what death fallenness evil these type of pictures of darkness that we think of when we think of a school there there there is a there's a reason why this place is called the place of the school and it's fitting that the most evil and wicked act of anything in all humanity if there's there's significance in that taking place on this place called the school the crucifixion of Christ there's significance in this and so he is taken to this place and and also church back then when they would do crucifixions pilot pilot and anybody that would put capital punishment pipe cross they would put them in very public places and the reason they would do that was so that the common folks would be scared about breaking the law they would go around in the cities and they would see a body hanging there that was in the process of dying or in the process of whatever it was but in the process of death they would see this person hung there and they would see the inscription written upon their head and they would say

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I probably ought not to murder them or I might not need a still and be a thief or I shouldn't do

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X Y & Z because that's the inscription upon this person's head it was a reminder of don't violate the law which is very interesting when we look at this with Christ here but they would put him in different places so that it was very obvious and so this place is outside the city it's an elevated staff in an elevated place of some kind because it's a hill and you remember that and so so that's where it's at so Christ is walking he's taking his cross to this place it says in verse 18 there they crucified him and with him two other men one on either side and Jesus in between and this is where I'm talking about that we could take a long long time in every single verse for many months to come because we could look at each one of the gospel accounts and see the recording of the two thieves that were crucified along with Christ and from Matthew and Mark's perspective it says that both of them were hurling abuses and and blasphemes at Jesus they were both doing this and Luke records a little bit extra piece in the sense that they were both absolutely doing this but at some point during the crucifixion according to Luke in 23 verse 39 through 43 it says in there that one of the thieves were saying are you not the

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Christ get yourself down from this cross and if that's really who you are do that Christ he's hurling these type of abuses at Christ being crucified and the two other thief on the other side of him says do you not even fear

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God for you were under the same condemnation he's speaking about Christ do you not fear

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God for you're under the same condemnation this thief recognizes Jesus as God in that text he says do you not even fear

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God for you were under the same condemnation and this man has done nothing amiss he recognizes him as both

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God and man in that text isn't that beautiful that in this this thief that has been blaspheming and hurling abuses at Christ has a change of heart and recognizes

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Christ as who he is God and man at the same time and then he's done nothing amiss and he goes on to say as we all know remember me when you enter into your kingdom and Christ gives him the assurance of salvation of saying today you shall be with me in paradise it's absolutely a beautiful beautiful message and we see it here recorded for us in this way in John 19 that they crucified him with two other men one on either side and Jesus in between and so that's the only mention of the thieves here in John and the way that he's described and recorded these events but it goes on to say in verse 19 it says in Pilate wrote an inscription also and put it on the cross and it was written

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Jesus the Nazarene the king of the Jews Christ is being consigned with two men that are thieves and are ultimately being held justly accountable for what they have done and being put to death in the way that Pilate has seemed it fit to put them to death this capital punishment that they have done and this in itself fulfills prophecy in Psalm chapter 22

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I'll turn to this one so I don't miss quoted Psalm chapter 22 is a very clear depiction of Christ being crucified hundreds of years before even crucifixion even was invented but in Psalm chapter 22 verse 16 it says some very interesting things in here and maybe what we'll do is we'll read

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I'm gonna read from verse 12 to 16 and this this is one of those great pictures that we see from the

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Old Testament that very clearly described Christ and what is going on in John chapter 19 verse 12 it says many bulls have surrounded me strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me they have opened wide their mouth at me as a ravening and roaring lion

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I am poured out and isn't that interesting that cry that that that Christ in this is saying that these people of a server circled me like a lion and we see that the devil himself and for the first Peter 5 8 is mentioned as a lion there's not interesting verse 14

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I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joints my heart is like wax it is melted within me my strength is dried up like a potsherd and my tongue cleaves to my jaws and now does lay me in the dust of death that picture of a school that we see even there you lay me in the dust of death for dogs have surrounded me a band of evil doers has encompassed me they pierced my hands and my feet this is this is the crucifixion in Psalm chapter 22 but the fulfillment of the two thieves on the sides of Christ is in verse 16 for dogs have surrounded me in a band of evil doers has encompassed me in that day dogs were referred to as thieves and so we see that Christ was surrounded by dogs on his left and on his right and a band of evil doers have encompassed him the thieves that were on his left and on his right and we see then they pierced my hands and my feet which is

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Jesus Christ is what this is speaking of we can go back to John 19 but in John 19 verse 18 now it says that that inscription has been written that the

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Jesus the Nazarene the king of the Jews Jesus the Nazarene the king of the

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Jews this has been what Pilate has accused

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Christ of being behold you're a king he has written an inscription about it the king of the

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Jews he's written this inscription about it and there's a there's a in my world in my workplace and it's being a firefighter there's these things called a placards and some of us might have heard what those are if you're ever driving on the road you see a semi truck come by you that's carrying gasoline or some sort of material in it you'll see a diamond shaped plate on there it's called a placard and it helps us tell what those things are inside of it in a sense it's an inscription on the side of the thing that it's carrying so that you can tell what it is in this day with crucifixion taking place as the person was being walked to the place of their death a

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Roman soldier would hold the inscription that would play placed upon above them as they walked so that as they went through the crowds of the people they could see what the thief had or the murderer or the the child abuser or whatever it is what they had done the inscription the placard the reasoning for their death as they walked there and so we see that in the same manner it's absolutely true that the

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Roman soldiers this cohort would have been walking in front of Christ with this inscription Jesus the

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Nazarene the king of the Jews and so the Romans interestingly enough are announcing this to the common people as they're walking they're announcing this to the

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Jews as they're walking these evil and wicked men are announcing

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Jesus the Nazarene the king of the Jews it says then in verse 20 therefore this inscription many of the

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Jews read for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city and I need you to pay attention to that word near the city does not say it was in the city it was near the city this is where the conflicting reports of where Christ was crucified was that because they'll say well this was the boundary 2 ,000 years ago where the city was so it had to have been here and then some people say no it had this was the boundary it had to be here and this is where it gets kind of interesting but the important part is that it was not in the city and we're going to talk about this at the end of today's message but it was not in the city it was near the city it was outside the gate and it says in here and it was written in Hebrew Latin and in Greek that same way

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I was telling you about semi trucks driving by they've done the there's been these these big -brained government officials that have come together and said we're gonna make signs on the side of these trucks that are obvious and clear and we'll give these these people books to help understand what it means right so it's very clear what's inside this container because it could be dangerous it could be not dangerous and we just want to let people know what it is in the same way we see pilot in the

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Romans doing this exact similar thing to Jesus Christ they write it out in three languages

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Jesus the Nazarene the king of the Jews so that no one in that day had an excuse for not knowing the reason that Christ was being crucified you couldn't say well

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I don't know Greek because it was written in Greek and you couldn't say well I don't know Hebrew because it wasn't just written in Hebrew it was written in every common language right then and there in that area of the world so that everyone knew

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Jesus was being crucified because he was Jesus the Nazarene the king of the

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Jews and it says that the Jews when they read this it goes on to say because they had to read it it's obvious once again that crucifixion was a picture of what you should not do to violate our law it's that picture going on there and so we see that the

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Jews are reading this this this judgment that pilot has done this inscription that has been written for him it says in verse 20 or in verse 21 and so the chief priests so these high officials of the

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Jews these priests of the Jews were saying to pilot do not write the king of the

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Jews but that he said I am the king of the

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Jews we see that even when the Jews are giving exactly what they wanted they are still mad what

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God is doing with Jesus no no no don't put that he is the king of the

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Jews put that he claimed to be the king of the Jews remove that inscription pilot remove it and change it because we aren't okay with what you wrote about him and we see what pilot says your pilot answer what

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I have written I have written so he's refusing to do it pilot wrote this Jesus the

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Nazarene the king of the Jews absolutely in a prophetic way without knowing what he was doing this is this is fact that when he wrote that out that is 100 % true but the reason that pilot wrote that out other than God's sovereignty in this text was because he was doing it in a way to mock the very

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Jews themselves he's already found Jesus to be free of guilt not innocent not deserving of what he's already done he said that three times and the

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Jews now have accused him of not being fearful of Caesar no pilot Caesar's going to be mad with you if you don't put this person to death because anybody that claims to be a king is against Caesar and so pilots being fed up with the

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Jews to this point that here he's been feeding what they wanted what they wanted what they wanted means had enough he says no

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I'm not going to change my inscription you're getting what you want here you're getting

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Christ crucified that is what you've been wanting of me this whole time and I didn't want to do it

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I didn't deserve it I'm not going to change the inscription

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I'm not going to listen to you anymore this is once again the

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God's sovereignty all throughout this text for pilot to adhere to them saying away with him away with him crucify him and being willing to change his decree of letting him go free to let him die upon a cross but then not willing to change the inscription don't you see the back -and -forth that pilots doing here at trying to appease the

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Jews but also not wanting to kill Christ in the way that they want that he recognizes him as innocent it's absolutely tremendous in this text of what takes place

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I want to read that once again 21 through 22 acknowledge church the absolute rejection of Christ by the

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Jews when they are saying this and so the chief priests of the Jews were saying to pilot do not write the king of the

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Jews but that he said I am the king of the Jews the

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Jews are rejecting Christ continually continually they aren't stopping when they get what they want they they don't want to even remember

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Christ this is factual and true today if you talk with the Jewish rabbi which

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I have had the pleasure to do they reject Christ continually he is not the king of the

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Jews he is not they were doing it back then they do it to the day because they reject the

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Messiah they reject who Jesus Christ is once again pilot answered what I have written

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I have written I want to turn to one final place in text today we will we'll finish but it's in Hebrews chapter 13 as we talk about this text in John 19 verses 16 through 22 this is what would be possibly called or known as the ascension to the ascension of Christ to this place of the cross this place in school and the reason that it's broken up like this as the ascent not necessarily the crucifixion of the account itself is that there's something that would take place all over in the

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Old Testament that was reflecting of this rejection of Christ within the city a city which is absolutely literally speaking

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Christ was not crucified in the city but a city was this kingdom that was meant to to proclaim who

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God was proclaim believers of God Yahweh and the city would in the past they would take these bulls and they would kill them and they would push reject them and slaughter them outside the city and this would take place just up just to read a couple of places in the

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Old Testament we could turn which we won't but Exodus 29 14 Leviticus 4 12 21

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Leviticus 4 12 and verse 21 chapter 9 11 chapter 16 27 numbers 19 3 through 7 each one of those verses talks about how they would take the bull and they would reject him and take it outside the city it would be rejected outside of the city and so I want to read verse 7 in here in Hebrews 13 verse 7 through 15 and I want you to understand now this this fulfillment that Christ of dying outside the city is remember those who led you who spoke the word of God to you and considering the result of their conduct imitate their faith

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Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today yes and forever do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace not by foods through which those who were though thus occupied were not benefited we have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle the tent have no right to eat for the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin are burned outside the camp therefore

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Jesus in verse 11 let me remind you that speaking of the bulls of the Old Testament that would be sacrificed they were burned outside the tent or outside the camp verse 12 therefore

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Jesus also that he might sanctify the people through his own blood suffered outside the gate hence let us go out to him outside the gate or the camp bearing his reproach for here we do not have a lasting city but we are seeking the city which is to come through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God that is the fruit of lips that give thanks to his name

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I just want to make mention here what this is what this is saying in here is that we as Christians we as believers in Yahweh we as being in Christ need to understand that being in Christ we accept the same reproach that he himself received that we should not be like the world not be like the city but we should bear the same thing that he did and go out of the city bearing that same reproach go out of the city follow

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Christ in that same way as what this text is saying in here follow Christ do not expect to succeed in this world expect to bear that same reproach that Christ received let us go to him continually let us go to him in verse 15 it says through him let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God that is the fruit of the lips that give thanks to his name this is saying that we should be giving praise to God through the fruits of our lips and what a better way than to do that right now than to sing our final hymn song to Christ to God and that is the text that we've selected for our final one is what a friend we have in Jesus which is fitting for for this to remember that that friend that we have in Jesus walked up was nailed on the cross for you and I and has brought his salvation to us so let us pray and then offer that that praise of our lips to him

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God we thank you for every step that you took to go with them we thank you for every wound that you received

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Lord we thank you for the very nails that pierced you and held you to the cross

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Lord we thank you for the suffering that you had and Lord let us not remember it because it is through those things through you suffering on a cross that we are saved and God when we look to you let us not just see your love let us see our sin let us realize and know what you have saved us from and that is your wrath

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God Lord we thank you for being our

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Christ we thank you for being the king of the Jews we thank you for being our king itself Lord God let us follow you outside of the camp and let us not rely on this world for our for our peace and happiness but let us rely solely upon you