Christ's Last Pulpit
J. Gerald Harris
Matthew 27:33-39
Peter Marshall described it like this: ''The great crowds which had followed the procession from the governor's palace were shouting in chants as they came to Calvary. They called it Golgotha. If seen in a silhouette in the fleeting twilight hours, it suggested a human skull. It was a place to be avoided. It was where two great highways converged upon the city of Jerusalem.
''Down in the valley below there was a place of stench, a place of horror, an ugly place where refuse always burned and the evil smelling smoke curled up and was wafted over the brow of Golgotha. That was the place of public execution. There the procession stopped. Only when the nails were driven in did the shouting and the chanting stop.
''There was a hush, because most of them were stunned and horrified...even the hardest of them were silenced. It is not pleasant to watch nails being driven through human flesh. After this horrifying experience the cross upon which Jesus had been stretched was erected and was dropped with a sickening thud into the pit they had dug for it. The Nazarene had mounted His last pulpit. There you have it - Calvary - the skull-shaped hill bearing Jesus on the cross.''
Dr. R. G. Lee says, ''There is Jesus, God's Rose of Sharon, between two cactus plants of Satan.''
I. THE PLACE OF CALVARY
The scriptures speak of a place called Golgotha, or a place called Calvary. That is where Jesus was crucified. Today if you were to go to Jerusalem you would be directed to a place just outside the city walls called Gordon's Calvary, so named for the man who discovered the garden tomb nearby where Jesus was believed to have been buried.
Golgotha is called the place of the skull because it so closely resembles a skull in its appearance. It is outside the wall of the city of Jerusalem near the gate of Damascus.
The Romans had a law, and according to that law no one could be crucified within the city limits or ...
J. Gerald Harris
Matthew 27:33-39
Peter Marshall described it like this: ''The great crowds which had followed the procession from the governor's palace were shouting in chants as they came to Calvary. They called it Golgotha. If seen in a silhouette in the fleeting twilight hours, it suggested a human skull. It was a place to be avoided. It was where two great highways converged upon the city of Jerusalem.
''Down in the valley below there was a place of stench, a place of horror, an ugly place where refuse always burned and the evil smelling smoke curled up and was wafted over the brow of Golgotha. That was the place of public execution. There the procession stopped. Only when the nails were driven in did the shouting and the chanting stop.
''There was a hush, because most of them were stunned and horrified...even the hardest of them were silenced. It is not pleasant to watch nails being driven through human flesh. After this horrifying experience the cross upon which Jesus had been stretched was erected and was dropped with a sickening thud into the pit they had dug for it. The Nazarene had mounted His last pulpit. There you have it - Calvary - the skull-shaped hill bearing Jesus on the cross.''
Dr. R. G. Lee says, ''There is Jesus, God's Rose of Sharon, between two cactus plants of Satan.''
I. THE PLACE OF CALVARY
The scriptures speak of a place called Golgotha, or a place called Calvary. That is where Jesus was crucified. Today if you were to go to Jerusalem you would be directed to a place just outside the city walls called Gordon's Calvary, so named for the man who discovered the garden tomb nearby where Jesus was believed to have been buried.
Golgotha is called the place of the skull because it so closely resembles a skull in its appearance. It is outside the wall of the city of Jerusalem near the gate of Damascus.
The Romans had a law, and according to that law no one could be crucified within the city limits or ...
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