JESUS AND THE THREE CROSSES (5 OF 13)
Scripture: Luke 23:32-33
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Jesus and the Three Crosses (5 of 13)
Series: Jesus and...
Donald Cantrell
Luke 23:32-33
Luk 23:32 KJV - And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Luk 23:33 KJV - And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
I - The Cross of Denial and Rejection (Mt. 27: 38, 44, Lk. 23: 39)
II - The Cross of Decision and Repentance (Lk. 23: 40 - 42)
III - The Cross of Deliverance and Redemption (Lk. 23: 43)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Theme: ''The crosses of rejection, repentance, and redemption''
Christ Between Two Thieves
George MacLeod ''I simply argue that the cross be raised again at the center of the market place as well as on the steeple of the church, I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles: But on a cross between two thieves; on a town garbage heap; At a crossroad of politics so cosmopolitan that they had to write His title in Hebrew and in Latin and in Greek... And at the kind of place where cynics talk smut, and thieves curse and soldiers gamble. Because that is where He died, and that is what He died about. And that is where Christ's men ought to be, and what church people ought to be about.''
The events that occurred on Golgotha some two thousand years ago portray the best and the worst of two distinct worlds.
The scenario that began back in the garden with the kiss of betrayal had swiftly snowballed to a backroom mock trial. The crowd may have swollen to well over five hundred people as group after group wanted in on the action.
• Humanity at its Worst
Jesus Christ was treated as if he was no better than a violent criminal and he was made a spectacle of shame. The soldiers would mock him, beat him, spit upon him, slam a crown of thorns upon his head, and strip his clothes off his body to infli ...
Series: Jesus and...
Donald Cantrell
Luke 23:32-33
Luk 23:32 KJV - And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Luk 23:33 KJV - And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
I - The Cross of Denial and Rejection (Mt. 27: 38, 44, Lk. 23: 39)
II - The Cross of Decision and Repentance (Lk. 23: 40 - 42)
III - The Cross of Deliverance and Redemption (Lk. 23: 43)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Theme: ''The crosses of rejection, repentance, and redemption''
Christ Between Two Thieves
George MacLeod ''I simply argue that the cross be raised again at the center of the market place as well as on the steeple of the church, I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles: But on a cross between two thieves; on a town garbage heap; At a crossroad of politics so cosmopolitan that they had to write His title in Hebrew and in Latin and in Greek... And at the kind of place where cynics talk smut, and thieves curse and soldiers gamble. Because that is where He died, and that is what He died about. And that is where Christ's men ought to be, and what church people ought to be about.''
The events that occurred on Golgotha some two thousand years ago portray the best and the worst of two distinct worlds.
The scenario that began back in the garden with the kiss of betrayal had swiftly snowballed to a backroom mock trial. The crowd may have swollen to well over five hundred people as group after group wanted in on the action.
• Humanity at its Worst
Jesus Christ was treated as if he was no better than a violent criminal and he was made a spectacle of shame. The soldiers would mock him, beat him, spit upon him, slam a crown of thorns upon his head, and strip his clothes off his body to infli ...
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