The Hour: Predicted from in the Ot 1. Pierced as an act of grace: Zech 12:10; 13:10 2. Shocking statement of love: Isa 52:

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3 The Hour: Predicted from in the Ot 1. Pierced as an act of grace: Zech 12:10; 13:10 2. Shocking statement of love: Isa 52: Pierced for our transgressions/iniquities: Isa 53:5 4. Jesus would be taken away: Isa 53:8 5. Location of His burial: Isa 53:9 6. He would carry our guilt and grief: Isa 53:10 7. He would be betrayed by a friend/for the exact amount: Psalm 41:9; Zech 11:12 8. His abuse would be extensive: Isa 50:6; psa 22: What Christ would say on the cross: Psalm 31:5 10. No broken bones: Psa 34:20

4 Vs:27 The Anguish of Jesus in this hour - The Man who was weary at a well and wept before a tomb does not go automatically or casually to the Cross. The flesh shrinks from this awesome death. Here the anguish, the longing of Jesus to avoid the Cross, is boldly recorded. But there is no turning back from the decision made in the counsels of eternity. Jesus has come in loving obedience to the Father s will and every move of His ministry has been a response to that plan. That faithfulness has brought Him to this hour. other names

5 Vs:27 The Anguish of Jesus - And there will never be a harvest, the Greeks will never know, unless Jesus completes His mission. For this purpose He has come! So the trembling, questioning cry, Father, save Me from this hour, is answered by the Son s decisive prayer of obedience, Father, glorify Your name (vv ). That name has been entrusted to Jesus and now in His last, costly act He will lift that name up above all other names

6 Jesus Response to His anguish in this hour? 1. Vs:27 Prayer: He speaks to His father 2. Vs:27 Honesty: My soul is troubled save me 3. An unwavering commitment to Glorify God.

7 How is God Glorified in this hour? : 1. Vs:31 He will judge the world through the cross 2. Vs:31 He will cast out satan 3. Vs:32 He will draw His people to Himself 4. He will make us light as He is light in the world

8 the death of Jesus becomes the decisive dividing line between the condemned and the vindicated. If you trust Jesus, you are united to him and his death is your death (Galatians 2:20), and his condemnation is your condemnation (Romans 8:3). And if you never trust Jesus, you stand condemned both by your sin, and by your rejection of the offer of forgiveness. So God glorifies himself by bringing the final judgment into history so that his Son can bear the sentence of condemnation for all who believe in Christ. This is part of what the angels were singing about: glory to God and peace to men who come to Christ and pass from death to eternal life and never come into judgment.

9 He failed. And in failing, he himself was judged and decisively defeated. Jesus says in John 16:11 that the Holy Spirit is coming to convict the world concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. The sense in which the ruler of this world was cast out or judged is that he experienced his decisive defeat at the cross not the final defeat, but the one that secures and guarantees the final defeat. Jesus did not give in. He kept entrusting himself to God. He did not sin. And therefore he bore our sin.

10 And he stripped Satan of the one weapon that he had that could damn us: namely, the valid accusation of our unforgiven sin. That weapon is taken from his hand. He is disarmed. We have no unforgiven sin. The blood of Jesus covers our sin all of it.

11 Therefore the cross was the decisive defeat of the condemning designs of the devil. He cannot succeed. The victory is ours though faith in Christ. This is why John said in Revelation 12:11, They have conquered [Satan] by the blood of the Lamb. The blood of the Lamb strips Satan of his one condemning weapon, our unforgiven sin.

12 Vs:28 We have a God that speaks: Speaking is central to God. God himself is Word, and his speech commanded nothing to be everything (John 1:1 3). The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty (Psalm 29:4). When God wants the dead to come to life he says, Live! (Ezekiel 16:6), and when Jesus wanted his friend to walk out of the grave, he spoke, Lazarus, come out (John 11:43). Even now, Jesus is holding together your molecules with his words (Hebrews 1:3). If Jesus were to stop speaking, you would stop existing.