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0:00Luke chapter 23 verse 1.
0:04Then the whole body of them got up and
0:06brought him before Pilate.
0:09And they began to accuse him saying,
0:12"We found this [music] man misleading
0:14our nation
0:16and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar
0:19and saying that he himself is Christ a
0:21king."
0:23So Pilate asked him [music] saying,
0:26"Are you the king of the Jews?"
0:28And he answered [music] him and said,
0:30"It is as you say."
0:33Then Pilate said to the [music] chief
0:34priests and the crowds,
0:36"I find no guilt in this man."
0:39But they kept on insisting saying, "He
0:42stirs up the people teaching all over
0:45Judea starting [music] from Galilee even
0:48as far as this place."
0:51When Pilate heard it, he asked whether
0:53the man was a Galilean.
0:55And when he learned that he belonged to
0:57Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to
0:59Herod,
1:01who himself also was in Jerusalem at
1:04that time.
1:06So the
1:07the feeling here is that you have a
1:09tension between
1:11the people's hatred and the political
1:14justice system.
1:16And the justice system of the Roman
1:19state
1:20finds no fault in Jesus.
1:23But that's not what's going to kill him.
1:25It's the hatred. It's the envy.
1:29He keeps stirring up the people. They
1:31want to return [music] to business as
1:33usual
1:34and they're full of envy.
1:36Pilate's trying to get out of it from
1:37the very word go.
1:39We learn that his wife has a dream
1:42shortly
1:43and he's trying to get out of it. So
1:44first he punts him off to Herod. Maybe
1:47maybe Herod will take care of this.
1:50You can sense that
1:52>> [music]
1:52>> Pilate is not a compassionate man. He
1:54was a brutal man. He killed people
1:57uh on a daily basis.
1:59And yet
2:01he doesn't want to touch this. There's
2:03some
2:04sense in him that he knows this is
2:07this is
2:08motivated by the wrong reasons.
2:11Now, Herod was very glad when he saw
2:13Jesus, for he had [music] wanted to see
2:15him for a long time.
2:17Because he had been hearing about him
2:19and was hoping to see some sign
2:21performed by him.
2:24And he questioned him at some length.
2:27But he, Jesus,
2:29>> [music]
2:29>> answered him nothing.
2:32And the chief priests and the scribes
2:33were standing there accusing him
2:35vehemently.
2:37And Herod, with his soldiers, after
2:38treating him with contempt and mocking
2:41him,
2:42dressed him in a gorgeous [music]
2:44robe and sent him back to Pilate.
2:48We know that some of the other gospels
2:50say that
2:51they put a purple robe on him. And
2:54that was because only kings were allowed
2:56to wear purple.
2:58And
2:59it was to mock his claim to kingship.
3:03Now, Herod and Pilate became friends
3:05with one another that very day.
3:08For before they had been enemies with
3:10each other.
3:12Here's another insight that
3:14there's something
3:16there's some demonic grace, some demonic
3:18anointing
3:20that comes upon people
3:22who partner up
3:23to harass and accuse
3:26and persecute Christ.
3:30Pilate summoned the chief priests and
3:32rulers of the people and said to them,
3:35"You brought this man to me
3:37as one who incites the people to
3:39rebellion.
3:40And behold, having examined him before
3:44you,
3:44I have found no guilt in this man
3:47regarding the charges which you make
3:49against him.
3:52No, nor has Herod,
3:54for he sent him back to us. And behold,
3:57nothing deserving of death has been done
4:00by him.
4:02Therefore, I will punish him and
4:04[clears throat] release him.
4:07Now, he was obliged to release to them
4:09at the feast [clears throat]
4:11one prisoner.
4:13But they cried out all together saying,
4:16"Away with this man
4:18and release for us Barabbas."
4:22He was one who had been thrown into
4:24prison for an insurrection made in the
4:28city and for murder.
4:32Pilate, wanting to release Jesus,
4:36addressed them again.
4:38But they kept on calling out saying,
4:40"Crucify him. Crucify him."
4:45And he said to them the third time,
4:46"Why?
4:48What evil has this man done?
4:50I have found in him no guilt demanding
4:53death.
4:54Therefore, I will punish him and release
4:57him."
4:59But they were insistent with loud voices
5:02asking that he be crucified,
5:05and their voices began to prevail.
5:11And Pilate pronounced sentence
5:13that their demand be granted.
5:16And he released the man they were asking
5:18for, who had been thrown into prison for
5:21insurrection and murder,
5:23but he delivered Jesus to their will.
5:29Luke wants us to understand several
5:31things here.
5:33He's emphasizing that the political
5:35system
5:37found no cause for death in Jesus, but
5:39the will of the people is what is going
5:42to murder him.
5:44And And going to hijack the political
5:46system as its tool
5:49simply because it's full of envy and
5:51hatred and slander.
5:56He also wants us to understand
5:58the substitutionary nature
6:01of this exchange.
6:04Barabbas is the worst sort of criminal.
6:07Barabbas is an insurrectionist. He's
6:09actually guilty
6:11of the trumped-up false charges that
6:13they're bringing against Jesus. Barabbas
6:15did them.
6:17He's a murderer.
6:19But Jesus is going to die in his place.
6:22And that's the substitutionary
6:25act. He's going to accept from the
6:27system of justice
6:30what belonged to another.
6:33It's very powerful that
6:35the conclusion here is that he delivered
6:38Jesus to their will.
6:43It is human will
6:45that crucified Jesus.
6:48It is our rebellious will that crucified
6:52Jesus.
6:53And that's the will that starts in the
6:55Garden of Eden when we say we will be
6:57like God
6:58and we start to take from the tree of
7:00knowledge and violate our covenant
7:01relationship with the Father.
7:04And if it's that will that crucified
7:06Jesus, then we know what it is that must
7:09die in repentance. It's that same
7:12stubborn
7:13will that is in competition with the
7:16authority of the anointed one.
7:20When they led him away, they seized a
7:22man
7:23Simon of Cyrene
7:26coming in from the country and placed on
7:28him the cross to carry behind Jesus.
7:32And following him was a large crowd of
7:35the people
7:36and of women
7:37who were mourning and lamenting.
7:42Literally beating their breasts
7:46in anguish.
7:49But Jesus, turning to them, said,
7:52"Daughters of Jerusalem,
7:54stop weeping for me,
7:57but weep for yourselves and for your
7:59children.
8:02For behold, the days are coming
8:04when they will say, "Blessed are the
8:06barren
8:07and the wombs that never bore
8:10and the breasts that never nursed."
8:13Then they will begin to say to the
8:14mountains, "Fall on us and to the hills,
8:18cover us."
8:20For if they do these things when the
8:22tree is green,
8:24what will happen
8:26when it is dry?
8:29You remember that after he cursed the
8:31the tree and said, "No more shall anyone
8:33eat fruit from you again,"
8:35the very next morning the tree was
8:36already dry. It was already withered.
8:40And so he's saying,
8:41"This system that has rejected the
8:44fruits of repentance,
8:47this religious system that has rejected
8:50the Lamb of God, the one who comes in
8:52the name of the Lord,
8:54it's not going to stay green.
8:56It's going to come under judgment."
8:59So he's prophesying the sacking of
9:01Jerusalem. He's prophesying the
9:03uprooting of the Jewish people from
9:06their land
9:07and the scattering of these same people
9:10into the nations, thrown into the sea of
9:13the Gentiles.
9:14And he's telling the women, "Don't weep
9:17for me. This is not a self-centered
9:19Jesus. He's been beaten. He has a crown
9:21of thorns smashed down on his head.
9:24He's been mocked.
9:26He's been scourged with a cat of nine
9:28tails.
9:30And yet he's telling them, "Don't weep
9:31for me. This isn't about my pain. You're
9:35Something is coming. If you can't get
9:37rid of this envy, if you're going to
9:39release the murderer
9:42inside, if you're going to release human
9:44will
9:45to this extent, there's a judgment that
9:47is coming on this city and this people
9:50that is going to astonish you. And
9:52you're he's saying you're going to wish
9:54you didn't have children. You're going
9:55to wish you weren't expectant or young
9:58mothers in this time.
10:01Two others also who were criminals were
10:03being led away
10:05to be put to death with him.
10:07When they came to the place called the
10:09skull,
10:11Golgotha,
10:12there they crucified him and the
10:14criminals,
10:16one on the right and the other on the
10:17left.
10:19But Jesus was saying, "Father,
10:21forgive them, for they do not know what
10:24they are doing."
10:26And they cast lots,
10:28dividing up his garments among
10:29themselves.
10:31And the people stood by, looking on. And
10:34even the rulers were sneering at him,
10:36saying, "He saved others.
10:39Let him save himself, if this is the
10:41Christ of God, his chosen one."
10:45The soldiers also mocked him, coming up
10:47to him, offering him sour wine, and
10:50saying, "If you're the king of the Jews,
10:52save yourself."
10:55Now there was also an inscription above
10:57him,
10:58"This is the king of the Jews."
11:02One of the criminals who were hanged
11:03there
11:04was hurling abuse at him, saying,
11:07"Are you not the Christ? Save yourself
11:10and us."
11:12But the other answered and rebuked him
11:14and said,
11:16"Do you not even fear God,
11:18since you are under the same sentence of
11:21condemnation?
11:23And we indeed are suffering justly,
11:27for we are receiving what we deserve for
11:29our deeds.
11:30But this man
11:32has done nothing wrong.
11:35And he was saying,
11:36"Jesus,
11:37remember me when you come into your
11:40kingdom."
11:43And he, Jesus, said to him,
11:45"Truly I say to you, today
11:48you shall be with me in paradise."
11:52It was now about the sixth hour,
11:54and darkness fell over the whole land
11:57until the ninth hour,
11:59because the sun was obscured, and the
12:02veil of the temple was torn in two.
12:05And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice,
12:07said,
12:08"Father, into your hands I commit my
12:11spirit."
12:13Having said this, he breathed his last.
12:17Now, when the centurion saw what had
12:19happened,
12:20he began praising God, saying,
12:22"Certainly, this man was innocent."
12:25And the crowds who came together
12:28for this spectacle,
12:30when they observed what had happened,
12:32began to return, beating their breasts.
12:36And all his acquaintances and the women
12:38who accompanied him from Galilee were
12:41standing at a distance, seeing these
12:43things.
12:48The story of the
12:49the two thieves.
12:52There's intentionality in the way they
12:54they did this. They wanted to make him
12:57look like a criminal.
13:00He was numbered with the transgressors,
13:02and they wanted to
13:04mock him even in the way they positioned
13:06the cross.
13:08So, they sandwiched him between two
13:10murderers.
13:12But even in that, the devil got a black
13:14eye and lost,
13:16because right there,
13:17he's leading someone to faith,
13:20and he's saying,
13:21"Jesus, remember me when you come into
13:24your kingdom."
13:26And he's giving him that assurance.
13:29Even from the cross, he's forgiving.
13:31He's acting in exactly the opposite way
13:34as the whole spectacle was engineered to
13:37provoke.
13:39And he's showing grace, he's showing
13:40mercy.
13:42And the
13:44the events that occurred upon his death
13:46would have been so dramatic that people
13:49are walking away beating their breasts.
13:52That the Centurion is saying he was
13:54innocent.
13:55Other gospels fill in more of what he
13:57said and add that he said, "Surely this
14:00was the son of God."
14:02That the sun was darkened and the veil
14:04of the temple was torn.
14:06This is the sign that the glory and the
14:08presence of God has departed from the
14:11temple.
14:12And that temple is now
14:14going to be torn down
14:16in a matter of a few years.
14:20And a man named Joseph, who was a member
14:22of the council, a good and righteous
14:25man.
14:26He had not consented to their plan and
14:28action.
14:30A man from Arimathea,
14:32a city of the Jews, who was waiting for
14:34the kingdom of God.
14:36This man went to Pilate and asked for
14:38the body of Jesus.
14:40And he took it down and wrapped it in
14:43linen cloth
14:44and laid him in a tomb cut into the rock
14:47where no one had ever lain.
14:50It was the preparation day and the
14:53Sabbath was about to begin.
14:55Now, the women who had come with him out
14:57of Galilee followed and saw the tomb and
15:00how his body was laid.
15:03Then they returned and prepared spices
15:05and perfumes. And on the Sabbath, they
15:08rested according to the commandment.
15:11The veil of the temple
15:13was this critical symbol
15:16that divided God's holy most holy place
15:21from the people, the worshippers.
15:25And in that holy place was the Ark of
15:28Covenant.
15:30And above the Ark were the
15:32cherubim, the the angels.
15:35And the cherubim had their wings up like
15:39a startled eagle over prey.
15:42In a in a posture of aggression and
15:45protection.
15:47And those cherubim represented the
15:50angelic host of God
15:52guarding people
15:54from access to his presence
15:57because
16:00our sins made us unable, unworthy to
16:04enter his presence
16:06and live.
16:07And so those cherubim are seen
16:10throughout the Bible. The first place
16:12that they're seen is at the gate of of
16:15Eden.
16:16When the when Adam and Eve are driven
16:19out of their communion with the Lord
16:22where they used to walk with God in the
16:23cool of the day, literally the spirit of
16:26the day.
16:27They're driven out. Sin drives them out.
16:30They cannot enter his presence without
16:32being
16:33without being consumed by it.
16:36And so the cherubim then, when they look
16:38back, are guarding the gate of Eden. The
16:40angels of God are guarding the gate of
16:42Eden with a flaming sword so that they
16:44cannot enter.
16:46And that veil
16:48is erected to say, "This one spot in all
16:52of the community of Israel where the
16:55presence of God dwells,
16:57you can come close to it, but you can't
17:00come into it because of this veil."
17:03I believe the veil was as thick as 2 ft
17:05thick.
17:07It was a It was like a wall of fabric,
17:10this impenetrable barrier. So there was
17:13no there was no conceivable way that
17:16someone was going to tear the veil or
17:19accidentally tear the veil.
17:21And um
17:23And on the day when Jesus is crucified,
17:26Luke says that
17:27uh the light of the sun was obscured.
17:32There are many historical records from
17:34the Romans that specifically say
17:38tell about a solar eclipse that happened
17:40on that specific day.
17:43The problem is is it was out of
17:46character. There was no planned solar
17:47eclipse.
17:49And
17:50the other gospels say there was an
17:52earthquake. So, at the moment of his
17:55death,
17:56you've got the sun being darkened and
17:59you've got the earth shaking
18:01and you've got the Lord ripping the veil
18:04of the temple from top to bottom, not
18:07from bottom to top, as if the Father
18:10himself is saying,
18:13"I've torn
18:15the barrier
18:16and now you can have [music] access, not
18:19into that temple because the presence
18:21has left it forever,
18:23but into the holy of holies,
18:25>> [music]
18:25>> into heaven itself, as the writer of
18:27Hebrews says."
18:29And this is what he means when he says,
18:31"Now we have confident access
18:34by one spirit to one Father through the
18:38blood of Jesus."
18:40The writer of Hebrews tells us that
18:42Christ's body
18:43was that veil.
18:45That veil [music] that was a barrier
18:47became a veil that was a door.
18:50"I am the door, so that through him
18:54we might approach the throne of grace
18:56and find mercy." The throne of grace and
18:59mercy refers to the mercy seat
19:04in between the wings of the cherubim on
19:06the ark of the covenant. That space
19:09was called the kapporet
19:12or caporet like Yom Kippur. [music] And
19:16caporet means atonement or mercy seat.
19:21So, when the veil of his flesh is torn
19:24the atonement is complete. He has
19:29paid justice. He has balanced the scales
19:32of justice so that there [music] is no
19:35hell due to those who flee for refuge
19:38into him.
19:40For those who pass through the torn veil
19:43of his body, of his sacrifice, accepting
19:46the new and living way of his blood
19:48offering, and come into him in that
19:52place
19:53there is refuge.
19:54And we now have that access. We now have
19:57that communion. In essence, we can enter
20:00back into
20:01the oneness of the Holy Spirit, the Eden
20:05of relationship with God in Christ.
20:09>> [music]
20:20[music]

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