Sunday School Jan 4, 2015 The Crucifixion
The Big Picture CREATION 1. Why Creation 2. Universe 3. Earth 4. Life 5. Species 6. Man 7. Sabbath PREHISTORY 8. Days of Noah 9. Flood 10. Why Flood 11. Adam to Noah 12. Cain 13. The Fall 14. The Garden 15. Civilizations 16. Languages 17. Babylon ISRAEL 18. Abraham 19. Isaac 20. Melchizedek 21. Jacob 22. Job 23. Exodus Overview 24. Bread 25. Water 26, 27, 28 Law 1,2,3 29. Ruth 30. Monarchy 31. Esther 32. The New Covenant EXILE 33. Daniel 34. 4 Kingdoms 35. End of Servitude 36. Seventy Weeks 37. Silent Years GOSPEL 38. Birth of Christ 39. Ministry of Christ 40. Christ s Eschatology 41. Crucifixion 42. Resurrection 43. Salvation 44. The Church 45. Acts of Apostles 46. 7 Churches REVELATION 47. Rapture 48. Seals & Trumpets 49. Scarlet thread 50. Bowls 51. The Millennium 52. Final Judgment 53. Eternity
Jeremiah (~550 BC) Jer 3:23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. Lam 3:26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. Habakkuk (~600 BC) Hab 3:18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. Hab 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. Socrates (~470 BC) It may be, that the Deity can forgive sins, but I do not see how Zoroastrianism (~500 BC) Mental struggle between aša (truth) and druj (lie). The cardinal concept of ašais at the foundation of all Zoroastrian doctrine as the condition for Free Will..02 Billion Followers Buddhism (~500 BC) Desire is the root cause of all evil No one saves us but ourselves, No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.5 Billion Followers Classical Hinduism (~400 BC) The cycle of action, reaction, birth, death and rebirth is a continuum called samsara. The notion of reincarnation and karma is the premise of Hindu thought 1.1 Billion Followers
1. Divine accomplishment and not an accidental tragedy 1Co 15:1 4 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures Act 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Gal 1:3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
2. Passion of the Christ and Love of the Father Jhn 3:16 17 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. Rom 3:24-25Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 1Jo 4:9 10 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Sunday Triumphal entry into Jerusalem (Matt 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11, Luke 19:29-40, John 12:12-15) Monday Cleanses the temple (Mat 21:12-13, Mark 11:15-19, Luke 19:45-46, John 2 14-17) Tuesday Olivet Discourse (Matt 24, Mark 13:1-37, Luke 21:5-36) Wednesday Thursday Passover (Mat 26:17-29, Mark 14:12-25, Luke 22:7-20, John 13:1-30) Prays in Gethsemane (Mat 26:30, 36-46, Mark 14:36, 32-42, Luke 22:39-46, John 18:1) Friday Betrayal (Mat 26:47 56, Mark 14:43-50, Luke 22:47-53, John 18:2-12) The trials (Mat 27:1-44, Mark 15:1-32, Luke 23:1-43, John 18:28 19:27) Crucified (Matt 27:45-50, Mark 15:33-37, Luke 23:44-46, John 19:28-30) Buried (Matt 27:57-60, Mark 15:42-46, Luke 23:50-54, John 19:31-42)
Day Event Old Testament Prophecy Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Triumphal entry into Jerusalem Cleanses the temple Olivet Discourse Passover Grief in Gethsemane Zec 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. Psa 69:9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. Deu 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. Isa 53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. Psa 40:7-8 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. Friday Betrayal The trials & suffering Crucified Buried Psa 41:9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. Zec 11:12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. Isa 53:3-5 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Zec 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. Isa 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
1. Divine accomplishment and not an accidental tragedy Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Dan 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. Lev 24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death. Jhn 19:7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God Jhn 10:36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
2. Passion of the Christ and Love of the Father Jhn 17:1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: Gen 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. Isa 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. Luk 22:42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. Jhn 18:11 Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it? Mat 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Jhn 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.