The Story - The Wonderful Cross?

Pastor Chris Enoch - April 9, 2017

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Scriptures:

Matthew 27:32-44

            As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross. And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull), they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it. And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots. Then they sat down and kept watch over him there. And over his head they put the charge against him, which read, “This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.” Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left. And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.” So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him.  For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way.”

Zachariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Isaiah 53:4-6 

Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”

Genesis 3:8

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:21

The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

Hebrews 10:4

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Hebrews 2:10-12; 14-16

In  bringing  many  sons  to  glory,  it  was  fitting  that  God,  for  whom  and  through  whom  everything  exists,  should  make the   author   of   their   salvation   perfect through suffering.

Both  the  one  who  makes  men  holy and those who are made holy are of the  same  family.  So  Jesus  is  not  ashamed  to call them brothers. 

Since   the   children   have   flesh   and   blood,  he  too  shared  in  their  humanity  so  that  by  his  death  he  might  destroy  him  who  holds  the  power  of  death--that  is, the devil-- and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham's descendants.

The Wonderful Cross 
Chris Tomlin, Isaac Watts, J. D. Walt, Jesse Reeves, Lowell Mason 
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