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okay let me just let you know what we can do tonight we’re going to actually sing some pray songs we’re gonna sing some hymns and then after we sing Khalif is gonna read a passage of Scripture and then I’m going to make some comments on that section of Scripture and and then we’re gonna do the same thing three times so we’re gonna sing he’s gonna read I’m going to make some observations about the text and then we’re gonna do the same thing sing read observations about the text saving read observation about the text and then we’ll conclude in some more singing and end it all right so I’m glad you came tonight we really haven’t had a Friday night good night I mean a good Friday service in a long long time and so but uh but I’m glad we’re here tonight and I’m glad you’re able to break away I know that was kind of short notice the announcement but you’re here and so I thank the Lord for that so we’re gonna sing first right oh that was the singing all right okay all right so I’m gonna be reading from mark chapter 15 mark chapter 15 starting at verse 16 all of the readings tonight will be in mark 15 so you might as well just leave it open there okay so mark 15 starting at verse 16 the soldiers took him away into the palace that is the praetorium and they call together the whole Roman cohort they dressed him up in purple and after twisting a crown of thorns they put it on him verse 18 and they began to acclaim him he’ll King of the Jews they kept beating his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling and bowing before him after they had mocked him they took the purple robe off of him and put his own garments on him we’ll stop there when we look at the Gospel of Mark one of the major themes in the gospel mark was who is Christ who is he and so when you get to really this place in Scripture which really is the third stage of the Gospel of Mark and it’s a large section the Gospel March mark that just shows us what where it all led to and what’s going on so in this third States stage it’s Friday morning possibly of course before this about 5 to 6 a.m. in the morning the Sanhedrin all night have been trying Jesus and they convened and and and officially endorsed the decision to condemn Jesus to death the members of the Sanhedrin that’s the seventy mocked him beat him and abused him and so this third stage is Friday morning shortly after dawn Jesus is formally condemned by the Sanhedrin and Jesus is tried by a Roman court and found not guilty Jesus is not condemned by the Roman Court he is found actually innocent instead he has offered up by some festival custom and a crowd persuaded by jealousy and of course the religious body was very jealous of Jesus and they wanted him dead at all costs so Pilate the politician towers and caves Barabbas the criminal is released according to what the crowd wanted Jesus the innocent is scourge fulfilling prophecy and then of course all levels of people spiritual blindness madness and folly prevailed all that day when the soul is dead in the hardest numb people are capable of committing you the worst of brutal acts and that is what we see here in this section of Scripture the sinful mind without divine illumination concludes incorrectly concerning Jesus suffering and death so that’s really just pondering tonight Christ’s suffering and death which really brings us to three things to ponder this evening the first one is found in the passage that Khalif just read and that that Jesus was mocked and smitten as a would-be King even though he was a great king so you see that the mockers are actually saying exactly what Jesus is opposite and so it’s a kind of ironic when you’re reading Scripture and it goes it’s like that throughout all the last part of the Gospel of Mark so remember it is Friday it’s around 6 a.m.
Jesus is now handed over to the Roman soldiers to prepare Jesus for crucifixion that was their job so Jesus is already beaten very badly the soldiers it says in verse 16 took him away into the palace that is the Praetorian and they called together the whole Roman cohort now a Roman cohort was around 200 soldiers so that’s a lot of soldiers to take care of one person and yet the government thought he was such a threat that they gave this whole section of soldiers and now these soldiers has authority over the prisoner and took liberty to mock and smite Jesus as a would-be King so in other words the soldiers were saying let’s have a little fun right this is a going to be a tough day let’s have a little fun so what they did is they actually the soldiers say six things to ridicule Jesus Christ to be a king and so mark gives a vivid really description of this horrific event and so what happens in Scripture is that these six things are actually true of Jesus even though they’re mocking him and what are they well I’ll let you see from the text the first one is that if he is a king then they mock him with a purple robe right that’s what they did and then of course a king also needs a crown so they twist eighth or a crown of thorns and put it on his head and so they mock him with the crown they also a king also knees adoration so they acclaim him and held him King of the Jews and they offer up sarcastic acknowledgments of his royal deity a king also needs a staff and of course here it says he kept they kept beating him in the head with a reed Reed is like a staff and so they addressed asking Jesus as a king who they looked at as powerless and unable to use his scepter his rod to rule and so they beat him with it they beat him in the head with it and of course a king also needs respect so they give him mock respect and they disrespect him by hurling upon him the grossest kind of insults the insult that anyone possibly can have in that spitting at him in they spit at him and then of course a king needs worship so they give him mock worship by bowing before him and they give him mock homage and so we see that actually the verb used in the text means that the soldiers actions were repeated they kept doing this over and over and over again so pilot let this barbaric type of situation go on almost for three hours from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
and remember what the Apostle Peter said in first Peter he says and while being reviled he did not revile in return while suffering he uttered no threats he kept entrusting himself to the one who judges righteously so what happens at a particular point is that he’s brought before Pilate and Pilate has a conversation with Jesus and how did that conversation go well if you notice in this text here it says there that Pilate entered again into the praetorium and summoned Jesus said to him listen and this is what Pilate wanted to know because if Jesus was claiming to be a king to take over the Roman government they wanted to know what kind of king he was and what kind of authority he had right so what is Pilate asked him here you are you the King of the Jews right jesus answered are you saying this on your own initiative or did others tell you about me Pilate answered I am NOT a Jew am I your own nation and the chief priest delivered you to me what have you done verse 36 jesus answered my kingdom is not of this world if my kingdom were of this world then my servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews but as it is my kingdom is not of this realm verse 37 therefore Pilate said to him so you are a king jesus answered so you say correctly that I am a king for this I have been born and for this I have come into the world to testify to the truth everyone who is of the truth hears my voice so at that point this shameful demeaning activity that was taking place by the guards ended and they took off Jesus purple robe that they gave him and they gave him back his old garments making him now ready to be crucified so at that point we can come to the next section listening to that I remember that that Jesus was suffering as an innocent man and how angry are you when you see an innocent man suffer but if you were there that day and you were watching this happened and you were seeing this and it’s an innocent man suffer your anger would be mixed with a great sadness as well as a great joy because he’s suffering and he’s enduring this for you he’s only enduring this for you that’s saying he’s him o sacred head now wounded the soul possessed me Oh next let’s stand as we sing the old rugged cross Oh Oh boy Oh today that’s worse me full to and then continuing our reading in mark 15 starting at verse 20 the second portion and they led him out to crucify him they press into service a passerby coming from the country Simon of Cyrene the father of Alexander and Rufus to bear his cross then they brought him to the place of Golgotha which is translating a place of a skull verse 23 they tried to give him wine mixed with myrrh but he did not take it and they crucified him and divided up his garments among themselves casting Lots for them to decide what each man should take it was the third hour when they crucified him the inscription of the charge against him read the King of the Jews okay this brings us to our second movement in our passage and of course it is that Jesus was led to the slaughter as a defenseless and a helpless lamb even though he was the great Lamb of God so the procession of it says and they let him out and crucified him that procession for criminals to be crucified was the very public thing for the Romans a matter of fact it was to be as public as possible because these people are used as an example don’t do this stuff alright so what they would do is that they would run the procession through the most populated streets and then also the actual crucifixion was placed on a major highway where everybody who passed by could see what was going on so when we come to this text we see that there are several things that are mentioned in the passage about how how Jesus is viewed in this part a portion of Scripture and of course we again we see how people are looking at Jesus in the wrong way and in in the opposite of who he really is and so we come and we see that there are actually this is how they view him first they view him as a man who needed help we see that the Bible tells us that the Roman soldiers these mean spirited Roman soldiers saw that that Jesus seemed to be frail at that point and so they pressed it says into service a by passerby coming coming from the country the country Simon of Cyrene and so Cyrene is actually is equal to that of the area of Africa and so his father Alexander and Rufus are mentioned also and he’s the one who bears Jesus crossed the cross beam of the cross that he bears not the whole thing the way we we see across today is not the way crucifixion was done it it had a cross it was like a tea didn’t have any head part of it so in this case they picked this man now but what did what is the high probability of something happening to Simon of Cyrene on Golgotha that day could have changed his life to work dramatically and some believe that he it was because his he was actually his son Rufus could be the god-fearing man mentioned in the Epistle of Romans where it says greet Rufus a choice man in the Lord also his mother in mind and Simon could be the man mentioned in the book of Acts when who sent Paul and varnas on their first mission to the Gentiles so again it says in in in axises and there were at Antioch in the church that was their prophets and teacher Barnabas and Simeon which is another form of the name Simon right which who is called Niger again a regular name for a man of swath e skin who came from Africa so the possibility that that man carrying Jesus crossbeam that day believed in Jesus the probability from getting the evidence from Scripture is very high all right so he was a man that looked like he needed help i but I think Simon is the one who needed the help and he got it and he got it that day a second thing it says in the text is that Jesus was viewed as an unclean man right for it says and they brought him to the place gal Gotha which is translated place of a skull and the reason why he’s viewed as an unclean man because gal Gotha was outside the city limits of jerusalem and outs and they took everything that was unclean outside the city in fact it says in the book of Hebrews therefore Jesus also that he might sanctify the people through his own blood suffered outside the gate a right so in other words anything that was taken outside the gate was considered unclean so Jesus was considered that day as taking to the place of the skull and of course that really was a place that refer to the shape of a skull a round topped hill referring to a skull like Hill outside the walls of Jerusalem now it’s a cemetery a hill that rises right above the garden tomb in in that portion of Israel and then next thing it was he was viewed as a man who needed drugs they try to give him wine mixed with myrrh but he did not take it now go Gotha of course on Golgotha Jesus was offered a narcotic actually it was a drug murder was at it with wine to give a stupefying effect the soldiers usually recommended it because drugged wine given to someone who was either in or of course in terrible suffering but for them it would subdue the criminal so they can it would be easier for the soldiers to put nails through their hands and their feet however Jesus refused he did not take it because he wanted to remain perfectly clear headed and sober in order to take the full brunt of the suffering that none of his senses would be dulled as he took the load of sin upon him and then Jesus was viewed as a as hopelessly condemned that shown in what the soldiers did they divided his garments among themselves casting Lots for them to decide what each man should take now the reason why they did that is because when they started casting Lots for his clothes is that they realized this person doesn’t need their clothes anymore they’re dying right so would they do it do what they did was they would cast lots now usually there was four lots all right we were blank one was marked and of course they would put it in probably a Roman helmet and mix it around and whoever picked it out would get what they were kind of like gambling on and so of course this was also prophetic in sound 22 it says verse 18 they divided my garments among them for my clothing they cast lots so Jesus is again fulfilling prophecy and of course they went and crucified him and remember on a t-shaped Church history bears the record that the cross was t-shaped had no top piece like our present crosses have Jesus was lifted up about 36 inches from the ground the great nails were driven through his hands and his feet and of course Luke records this see my hands and my feet that it is I myself touch me see for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have and of course Psalm 22:16 they pierced my hands and my feet so again crucifixion is a very horrible way to die it was an agonizing humiliating exhausting death it was meant to be slow and painful and many people who were crucified spent four days on the cross before they died four days before they succumbed to death yet we come to see that Jesus greatest agony was not physical his greatest agony rather was the agony of soul as he bore the guilt of the world sin and that leads to that last one that is that Jesus is viewed as a guilty man where it says it was the third hour when they crucified Him that’s nine o’clock the third hours of 9 o’clock in the morning that Jesus is hanging on the cross and of course John tells us now it was that day of preparation for Passover it was about the sixth hour and of course that was later and he said to the Jews behold your king so the superscription publicly displayed the charge for which the person was guilty and in this case it says the inscription of the charge against him was the King of the Jews so as Jesus was raised on the cross the Jews noticed that superscription which Pilate had caused to be placed above him right and insisted he modify it but he refused and it’s recorded this way in John it said that so the chief priests and the Jews were saying the Pilate do not write the king of the Jews but he says they said right I am The King of the Jews and Pilate answered what I have written I have written so even though the superscription was used in a mocking way it was pilots way of revenge on the Jews if you want Jesus you will have to have a measure king and that’s exactly what he was see that’s the ironic thing Jesus is the great king amen let’s sing some more songs as we sing these songs you can just in your seats and think about the words what we’re gonna sing I think throughout history Jesus has always been misunderstood by people right the soldiers didn’t understand that who they were crucifying was really the Lord of the universe and it’s no different today people have all sorts of crazy ideas about who Jesus was Jesus is some people think it’s a great man but just a man some people think he was a liar a cult leader some people think he wasn’t real at all but we know better don’t we to us he’s our Lord and our Savior but not only that he’s our brother our friend and that’s who he is to us but sting to song so we got child of a lowly brutally in a stable shelter coldly No who from and two last boo some men over yes No can the behold him shed drops of blood this despised rejected and saw what a name for the Son of God who came proving sinners to reclaim Holly water in my content Easter fields my party Oh God okay it’s bee pollen and ished was his cry thirteen yeah oh gee heeey okay two three is song water amen continuum verse 27 they crucified two robbers with him one on his right and one on his left and the scripture was fulfilled which says and he was numbered with transgressors those passing by were hurling abuse at him wagging their heads and saying ha you who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days save yourself and come down from the cross in the same way the chief priests also along with the scribes were mocking him saying mocking him among themselves and saying he saved others he cannot save himself let this Christ the King of Israel now come down from the cross so that we may see and believe those who were crucified with him were also insulting him amen in this last part this last section of scripture tonight we come to a third movement in the passage and it’s that of Jesus was crucified to save others not himself even though he was the son of God and a great king the great king was crucified there’s two things that are important in this these few verses 27 and 28 is that Jesus is crucified with sinners crucified they crucified two robbers with him it says on his right and not his left so these convicted robbers were directly connected to Jesus because they were sinners they were not petty thieves they were considered highwaymen those who robbed the innocent victims while they were traveling from place to place back then they didn’t have you know police cruising the the roads back then if you’re caught out in the middle and there’s thieves there you usually had no way to protect yourself and so they knew that and they would rob people and they were found guilty they were ever caught found guilty and of course tried by the Roman government because believe me if they’re hanging on the cross that is about the worst penalty you can get by the Roman government the crucifixion so these guys were not just petty thieves they were wicked evil men who probably robbed many people and probably didn’t much more than that than robbed them so Jesus is placed smack right in the middle of these two criminals Jesus was the most important person held at centre place between two sinners who were dying justly for their crimes and Jesus was the opposite of that our text is clear that Jesus was fulfilling prophecy for it says in verse 28 and the scripture was fulfilled which says and he was numbered with the transgressors and of course that’s what it says in Isaiah therefore I will allot him a portion with the Great and he will divide the booty with the strong because he poured out himself to death and was numbered with the transgressors yet he himself bore the sins of many and interceded for the transgressors so Jesus the great king is crucified with sinners but he is also crucified for sinners for already in our text it lets us know that and that of course that is the great doctrine of substitution and that is where you and I should have been dying on the cross for our sins and our iniquities and now we have a substitute lamb that dies in our place takes the full wrath of God for us pays for every sin that his sheep would commit and he now dies to the point where he gives himself wholly to that sacrifice fulfills everything in the Old Testament that pointed to that sacrifice and he dies for sinners so Jesus was fulfilling his mission that he was not dying for the righteous or there are none but he was a substitute sacrifice for all kinds of sinners as second Corinthians informs us a very pointed passage of scripture where it says he made him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf the righteous King Jesus Christ is being sin being made sin on our behalf not his own sin our sin for what reason that we may become the righteousness of God so when we get saved when you and I come to Christ we repent of our sins we ask him to save us forgive us we have nothing to offer Christ at that point we have no righteousness we have no good deeds we have nothing to offer him all we have to offer him is a bundle of sin even sins that we forgot we did Jesus died for those too right and then so we have to be saved with an alien righteousness as Luther said a righteousness not of our own we could never have supplied it who supplies our righteousness Jesus Christ so he takes our sin he nails it to the cross and he takes his righteousness and he puts it over our account so when God the Father sees our account he no longer sees our sin but he sees the righteousness of His Son Jesus Christ and the shed blood that washes that sin away never again to come up against us to condemn us and so that becomes the great truth of Scripture it’s hard to believe that Jesus Christ would die for the helpless for the ungodly for the sinners for enemies that’s what we died for and yet when Paul records this these truths and brings them all together in Romans chapter 5 verse 6 through 10 where he says for a while we were still helpless at the right time at the right time at the right moment in human history Christ died for the ungodly for it says for one will hardly die for a righteous man though perhaps for a good man someone would dare even to die but God demonstrates his own love towards us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us much more then having now been justified by his blood we shall be saved from the wrath of God through him when people ask you what do you really say from you know what you’re safe from your fit you’re saved from God you’re safe from God’s wrath because nobody nobody can rescue themselves from God’s wrath except Jesus Christ who took the wrath for you and I in our place so if while we were yet enemies the Bible says we were reconciled to God through the death of his son much more having been reconciled shall we be saved by his life so what does this suffering and mockery and torment of the servant King do for those who repent and place their faith and trust in Jesus Christ for salvation well I’ll close with this it’s adapted from JC rile about the crucifixion and he says this remember it was for us and our sin that caused Christ to go through the cross and here are eight things to ponder first Jesus suffering in our place brings us to God it says in first Peter 4 Christ also died for sins once for all the just for the unjust so he might bring us to God having been put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit secondly he said Jesus suffering in our place delivers us from the pit of destruction and the torment of the prison of hell thirdly he said Jesus suffering in our place sets us free from every charge in the day of judgment and to present present us faultless before the Father with exceeding joy the fourth thing he said Christ suffering in our place is so that we might have glory and honor and eternal life through faith in Christ atonement and that we might be received into God’s kingdom with triumph at the last day and receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away fifth thing he said is that Jesus suffering in our place is that we might be clothed in perfect righteousness the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ because we have no righteousness of our own not clothing defiled by sin but pure white unstained wedding garments as the Bride of Christ the sixth thing that Jesus suffered in our place so that we may be delivered from the curse of sin where the Bible says Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law having become a curse for us for it is written cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree seventh that Jesus suffered in our place so that we may be reckoned innocent in Christ for Christ’s sake and found worthy to escape escape God’s judgment and be pronounced not guilty before heaven and before earth and then lastly that Jesus suffered in our place so that we may have a strong consolation when we walk down into the valley of the shadow of death we do not have to fear evil we do not have to fear death where the scripture tells us in second Corinthians 5:6 therefore being always of good courage and knowing that while we are are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord but when we leave these bodies we are going to be present with Christ from faith to sight and that is going to be the day that is going to be a glorious day so as we just celebrate tonight the Lord’s suffering on our behalf let’s never forget what took place there on the cross that every day it should occupied our mind and some of these things tonight that we can ponder these truths that will take us not only through the next day but it’ll take us through the next year until the day we close our eyes and death or Christ comes back again amen let’s close with our fuse pray songs we’re gonna sing one more song to close the service I know when we stand for this one it sort of remind you of course then when Jesus stretched out his arms on Calvary and died that’s an invitation to everybody hesitation to you if you’re not a Christian that is a limitation it was his invitation for you to come to him and exchange your burden of sin and guilt for his righteousness and even if you are a Christian you know some of us wander away and we can always come back right Jesus is always there for us and that’s why he suffered that’s why he died the light of although with the world on his shoulders the weight of all the in surrender Hey I know about his the hill of Calvary be Oh now you are wound three me breathe cross for me who praise the god of to cross the cross is all if all I need to see the God before I pray to close our service so I thank everybody who came together the last minute to make this happen thank everybody if it was everybody came together and good worship our Lord and I also want to remind you there’s refreshments in the back so if you want to hang out a bit that would be awesome let’s pray father we are so grateful for the opportunity to come here tonight and to remember what you did for us on that cross and we remember now Lord that the pain that you felt was real pain it was real human pain but the spiritual pain that you felt of being separated from the father is something that we’ll never fully understand it’s a pain that transcends not only our understanding but we could never could never endure that and it was that pain Lord that that’s suffering that paid the debt that we owed so long as we as we ponder upon these things and the great lengths to which you’ve gone to make a bridge between us and God as we ponder these things for the next few days and pray Lord that you would help us to have this these things see deeply into our hearts so that we could have develop a love for you that’s based on what you’ve done for us based on who you are and Lord when we come back on Sunday to celebrate your resurrection we’ll be all that much sweeter so remember Lord that you died but death could not hold you so order thank you in Christ’s name