Sermon Tone Analysis

THE STEPS OF A KING

The Crucifixion

 

Why is it that the Easter Season and Tax season always happen at the same time?

President Herbert Hoover was the first President to give his salary back to the government.

Now the government would like everybody to do it.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

The rest of us wait until income tax time.

Don't you long for the good old days when Uncle Sam lived within his income and without most of yours?

When making out your tax return, it's better to give than to deceive.

An income tax return is like a girdle.

If you put the wrong figure in it you’re likely to get pinched

 

Benjamin Franklin said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.”

In all the history of mankind there has never been any event more certain, more assured, more definitely planned than the crucifixion of Christ.

The steps of King Jesus were planned and purposed long before the time He left heaven, was born in a manger in Bethlehem, walked on this earth, lived a sinless life; His steps took Him to a cross planted on a hill called Golgotha; there, to experience a cruel death so that all of mankind could be provided with the means of salvation.

Nothing has ever been more certain than that death.

God did not have to come up with plan B.  Christ’s crucifixion at Calvary was not a detour, it was His divine destination.

/Matthew 27: 32As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross.

33They came to a place called Golgotha (which means The Place of the Skull).

34There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it.

35When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots.

36And sitting down, they kept watch over him there.

37Above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is jesus, the king of the jews.

38Two robbers were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left.

39Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads 40and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself!

Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!”/

/41In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him.

42“He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself!

He’s the King of Israel!

Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.

43He trusts in God.

Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” 44In the same way the robbers who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him./

/45From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.

46About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”—which