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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED (27B OF 28)

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: Matthew 27:33-66
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Title: Mission Accomplished (27b of 28)
Series: Matthew
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Matthew 27: 33-66

Matthew Series - Sermon 27 (B) of 28

I - The Prescribed Place (33)

II - The Painful Punishment (34 - 35a)

III - The Prophetic Parting (35b)

IV - The Posted Plaque (36 - 37)

V - The Prominent Participants (38 - 44)

VI - The Puzzling Phenomenon (45 - 56)

VII - The Passionate People (57 - 66)

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REMEMBER THE MISSION

In 1629, when the favorite wife of Indian ruler Shah Jahan died, he ordered that a magnificent tomb be built as a memorial to her. The shah placed his wife's casket in the middle of a parcel of land, and construction of the temple literally began around it. But several years into the venture, the Shah's grief for his wife gave way to a passion for the project.

One day while he was surveying the sight, he reportedly stumbled over a wooden box, and he had some workers throw it out. It was months before he realized that his wife's casket had been destroyed. The original purpose for the memorial became lost in the details of construction. They built the Taj Mahal, but they forgot the reason for the building.

They forgot what their mission truly was!

Jesus never forgot his mission, which was to get to the cross, so that he could pay the price and the penalty for the sin of mankind. The main goal of the Lord was never to merely come to this earth and perform miracles and live a pure and moral life, all of those were good, but that was never the goal.

Jesus set his face towards Calvary and there was nothing that was going to detour him from accomplishing his goal of dying upon Calvary's cross for man.

I - The Prescribed Place (33)

Mat 27:33 KJV - And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,

The Gospel of Matthew gives us a very clear and concise location as to "The Place" of the Lord's crucifix ...

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