Good Friday Message
Bible Text: Luke 22:39-54, Luke 23:32-38 | Preacher: Vic Matthews | Series: Easter Services |
Thinking of the last days of the Lord Jesus Christ
The Last Supper
The Passover – explanation
These things were fulfillment of the Old Testament
The triumphal entry on Palm Sunday
Teaching the crowds – 21:37-38
This had continued until Jesus celebrated the Passover with His disciples
The Passover
Ordinary for the disciples [so they thought]
Extra-ordinary and unique for Jesus
He would become the Lamb of God that would take away the sins of the world
Jesus had tried to explain to His disciples what would happen – 18:31-33
They did not understand these things – 18:34
When Jesus was risen the Holy Spirit came to the disciples and they remembered all that Jesus had said
“His hour had not yet come”
A phrase that occurs throughout the Gospels
Jesus knew there was an hour coming – now was the hour
Jesus tried to explain to His disciples
He broke bread that was a symbol of His body
He poured out the wine that was a symbol of His blood
He was inaugurating a new covenant, a new passover, a new supper
Jesus was instituting a new covenant in His blood on the Cross of calvary
No more sacrifices – He offered Himself once and for all
The disciples did not see
Do we see?
Has it taken hold of us?
Don’t let things go by
The Mount of Olives
They go after the Passover meal
Jesus is troubled as His hour is very close
He prays to His Father
Deeply troubled
That He will be made sin – the Holy Righteous Sinless Son of God
That He would be forsaken by God – out of fellowship with the Father
The cup cannot be taken away – there is no other way
Jesus goes to the cross because He loves us
A multitude come for Jesus, including Judas
Jesus knows what is coming
He knows that Judas will betray Him with a kiss
The disciples want to fight as it suddenly dawns on them what is happening
The come in the dark
They take Jesus
They falsely accuse Him
They have an illegal court hearing
They take Him to the Roman Governor
Jesus is crucified
Alongside two criminals
Nailed Him to the cross
Psalm 22 & Isaiah 53 – reveals to us something that is happening to Jesus
Explanation
“Father forgive them for they know not what they do” – a glorious prayer from the cross
He could have invoked judgment
Instead He prays for forgiveness (for all)
What a glorious and kind God
Would you not like to know the peace and joy of sins forgiven?
The promise of eternal life in paradise?
Do not have a stubborn heart
Like the Centurion – recognise this is the Son of God
The power of saving grace
The triumphal return
There is an hour when Jesus is coming again
It will affect our souls
Turn and seek the Lord Jesus Christ
Know salvation