Sermon Tone Analysis

Life of Christ  Part 3

 

He was put on the cross at 9am, died spiritually at noon, and died physically at 3pm.

There was darkness over the land.

It was not an eclipse, because they do not last for 3 hours.

He made 7 statements from the cross.

The /first/ statement He made was *“Father forgive them for they know not what they do”.*

The /2nd/ statement He made to one of the thieves hung on the cross beside Him when He said *“Today you will be with me in paradise” (Luke **23:43**.)*

The /3d/ statement was when He was dying and turned the care of His mother over to John when He said *“Woman, behold your son.

Behold your mother”.

(John19:25-27).*

The /4th/ statement was *“My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”(*/Deity cannot contact with sin) /*Matt.27:46,

Mark15:34*.

Just before He died physically, the darkness departed.

The /5th /statement was *“I thirst”.*

The /6th /statement was *“It is finished”(John19:30)*

The /7th/statement made from the cross was *“Father, into thy hands I dismiss my spirit”.*

In the 4th statement, He called His Father (God) because at this point He is judged as sin.

To call Him God is the cry of a sinner.

He was considered not His Father then as He spoke as a sinner.

In the 7th statement on the cross He again addresses Him as Father.

In the beginning, He calls Him Father and then later My God.

God cannot fellowship with sin.

In the last statement from the cross He again calls Him Father, the darkness goes away and the light comes back.

Let’s look at how it was during the time of the Crucifixion.

OT saints went to Abraham’s bosom – Paradise, when they died.

Unbelievers went to hell, place of torment.

Did you ever wonder when people died why those in hell could see those in Paradise?

They could see each other.

Why?

There was a gulf /(chasm)/ between them.

How did the rich man in hell see Lazarus in Paradise?

Isn’t Abraham’s Paradise the same as heaven?

*No*.

In the OT people were saved, but they weren’t born again.

What separates their dispensation from ours?

The answer is the HS.

We are all saved by faith and not by animal sacrifices.

Abraham was saved by faith and so was David.

/People could not go to heaven yet/.

They were sent to a holding place and preserved.

*/No one had ever been born again yet and no one had been resurrected yet.

Jesus was the first./*

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The Bible says in *Ephesians 4:8* that *“Jesus led captivity captive and gave gifts unto man.”

*When He led captivity He took them from Abraham’s bosom or Paradise and took them to heaven with Him/./

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/  Remember, we are in the dispensation of the HS/.

He comes to live in me.

/In the OT the HS had not come yet to live in people/ yet.

To /further/ explain, do you remember the /Ark of the Covenant?/

/There was a certain way to transport the //Ark.//

It had rings on the sides and there were long poles that fit into the rings.

This is the way the //Ark// was supposed to be transported.

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In the OT, we have the occasion where the Ark was being moved on a cart pulled by oxen.

/Now God specified that it be moved with the staves, rings, and poles, but for some reason it was not.

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As the Ark was being transported, the Ark started to turn over on the cart.

A man named Uzzah tried to steady it and when he touched it, he was killed instantly.

Why did he get killed?

He was only trying to protect the Ark. 

 

*/You could not approach God’s presence in the OT./*  */To do so would be to die unless you were the High Priest.

The High Priest could only go in once a year.

Even then precautions had to be taken or the High Priest wouldn’t live.

Uzzah touched the presence of God Himself/* .*/The

/**/Ark/**/ was where the Shekinah glory of the Lord dwelt.

People couldn’t come near, and that is why Uzzah died.

People have to understand that God is so Holy, that you cannot come into His presence and live to tell it.

The bible tells us about falling down as if dead in the presence of God.

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 We have the HS living /in /us now and as such we have God’s Spirit /inside of us./

We do not have to worry about touching His presence and dying because we have Jesus’ blood upon us and we are born again of God’s Spirit.

Because of that, we are part of God.

Uzzah didn’t have that.

They were servants, but we are called sons.

Back then they died waiting for the Promise, but we have the fulfillment of the Promise.

When we die, we go into heaven and into His presence.

During OT times, the Spirit would come upon people and then leave.

He would come and go.

The time was coming when God said, *“I will be in them, walk in them, and talk in them.”*

So believers died and went to Paradise while unbelievers went to hell.

There was another place that existed and still does called /Tartarus/ where fallen angels are bound.

They were placed there at the time of the Flood.

(*2 Peter 2:4,5)* tells us what happened to them.

*“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved to judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;”*

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*  * When Christ died, He went to all three places.

He went to hell to suffer for you and I, to Tartarus and preached to the spirits (fallen angels) there, and He went to Paradise and brought the believers with Him.

We know that the spirits he preached to were the fallen angels because when it talks about men in the bible, it always says “spirits of men”.

Let’s read a couple of verses now.

I want to show you something.

*Matthew 5:25,26 “Agree with thine adversary quickly while you are in the way with him, lest at any time the adversary deliver you to the judge and the judge deliver you to the officer and you be cast into prison.”*

/Who is the adversary?/

Satan.

The judge?

God the Father.

Who is the officer?

Demon host.

They are the ones who took Him off the cross and cast Him into prison.

Verse *26* says, *“Thou will not come out of prison until you have paid the uttermost farthing.”

*Christ went to hell, to prison and paid the uttermost farthing and came out of prison.

JC picked up the tab at the cross and paid the tip in hell.

It is God’s grace to us.

We can’t even pay the tip.

It’s free to you and me.

As we said, the reason believers could not go to the Father yet was because they were not indwelled by the HS.