Title: From the Cross to the Crown
Author: Jeff Schreve
Text: Luke 24:13-35
If you have your Bible, please turn to Luke, chapter 24. We want to talk about From the Cross to the Crown.
According to Dr. Harold Horner, the theologian, it was April 3, 33 A.D. when Jesus was crucified. The events of Friday, we call it Good Friday, were horrific. And for those people that lived in that time period who experienced that Friday, April 3, 33 A.D., they didn't call it Good Friday. They called it awful Friday, a horrible Friday, a hope-crushing, killing Friday. It was the worst day that they had ever gone through and had ever experienced in their whole life. See, they had put all their hope in Jesus. He was the Messiah, and now the Messiah has been crucified, and they didn't have a place for that in their theology. They said, "We thought He was going to redeem Israel, but, alas, now He's dead." So, they had a flood of emotions, negative emotions, with sadness , with despair, discouragement, depression, mourning and fear because after what the Jewish religious leaders did to Jesus, maybe they would come after them, too, and do something harmful to them.
Now, when you think about those emotions that they felt, we can kind of relate to that in what we're going through as a people, as a nation, as a world, with the coronavirus. Many people have lost their jobs. Some people have gotten sick. Some people have lost their lives. Some people have lost loved ones as a result of this virus. Many people are afraid. We don't know what's going to happen. We don't know how this world is going to be when we finally come out of this. There is so much uncertainty. Hey, we're like they were. See, they didn't understand that it was Friday, but Sunday was coming. They didn't understand that there was a cross that would lead to a crown. They didn't understand that there had to be suffering before there was glory. And many of us today, if we' ...
Author: Jeff Schreve
Text: Luke 24:13-35
If you have your Bible, please turn to Luke, chapter 24. We want to talk about From the Cross to the Crown.
According to Dr. Harold Horner, the theologian, it was April 3, 33 A.D. when Jesus was crucified. The events of Friday, we call it Good Friday, were horrific. And for those people that lived in that time period who experienced that Friday, April 3, 33 A.D., they didn't call it Good Friday. They called it awful Friday, a horrible Friday, a hope-crushing, killing Friday. It was the worst day that they had ever gone through and had ever experienced in their whole life. See, they had put all their hope in Jesus. He was the Messiah, and now the Messiah has been crucified, and they didn't have a place for that in their theology. They said, "We thought He was going to redeem Israel, but, alas, now He's dead." So, they had a flood of emotions, negative emotions, with sadness , with despair, discouragement, depression, mourning and fear because after what the Jewish religious leaders did to Jesus, maybe they would come after them, too, and do something harmful to them.
Now, when you think about those emotions that they felt, we can kind of relate to that in what we're going through as a people, as a nation, as a world, with the coronavirus. Many people have lost their jobs. Some people have gotten sick. Some people have lost their lives. Some people have lost loved ones as a result of this virus. Many people are afraid. We don't know what's going to happen. We don't know how this world is going to be when we finally come out of this. There is so much uncertainty. Hey, we're like they were. See, they didn't understand that it was Friday, but Sunday was coming. They didn't understand that there was a cross that would lead to a crown. They didn't understand that there had to be suffering before there was glory. And many of us today, if we' ...
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