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If you were with us last week, you know that we began walking through a short Easter Series...
…focusing in on the gospel of Jesus Christ...
Last week we started with the first phase of the gospel....the Death of Christ.
And we were reminded of how the Jewish nation missed Christ as the Messiah...
because they couldn’t connect the dots of their past.
They were expecting a Messiah who would free them from Roman oppression...
…establish a physical kingdom on the earth...
And instead, Jesus, who claimed to be the Messiah....suffered and died.
And because HE DID....the Jews declared He couldn’t be the Messiah!
And the IRONY, as we saw last week, was that Jewish history is riddled with BLOOD SACRIFICE!
ALL throughout Jewish history you see BLOOD SACRIFICE…and not only that, BUT...
The theme of Jewish History is this: Blood Sacrifice Brought Blessing!
AND YET - when it came time for Christ to be “the LAMB of God”...
the perfect blood sacrifice…ONCE FOR ALL...
the Jews couldn’t accept it!
EVEN SO - we saw that the death of Christ is GOOD NEWS…for those who believe!
WHY?
Because BY FAITH in Him, HIS death becomes our death!
What kind of DEATH?
Jesus Christ DIED to sin…how does that connect with us?
So through FAITH in Jesus - we are BAPTIZED (not water) INTO Christ...
we are placed INTO Jesus Christ…united with Him in His death...
A death to sin...
Through Faith in Christ, SIN no longer has power over us…MEANING the ultimate effect of SIN...
…will not have it’s way with us...
We know what Romans 6:23 says -
And so last week we saw the GOOD NEWS of the Death of Christ...
This week we’ll look at the Good News of the Burial of Jesus Christ.
The Gospel of Christ is this - the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus...
And so this week, we’ll focus in on His Burial.
I think with the Burial of Christ being the MIDDLE-CHILD, if you will of the 3 phases of the Gospel...
I KNOW you’d agree that the burial of Christ gets - LITTLE TO NO consideration in Christian circles...
What do we talk about when we’re sharing the Gospel with people...
We say - HE DIED for your SINS...
He ROSE AGAIN!! - He’s alive!
And that’s GREAT!
Amen to that!
BUT - why no mention of the Burial of Christ?
I think we treat the burial as NON-IMPORTANT information...
…maybe even FILLER...
I’m GUILTY as anyone!
But i think we can learn a lot from His burial!
SLIDE: The Burial of Christ: The Priority of Rome
The Burial of Jesus Christ
When you think back to how Pilate handled the crucifixion of Christ, you can hear in the text how torn he was in trying to handle the situation...
You can hear the tension building up in Pilate...
He doesn’t want anything to do with this…!
He had tried to tell the Jews to take Jesus and do whatever they wanted with Him...
Pilate seems to definitely understand the weight of the situation!
*You ever come across a situation where you’re made aware of something…but because of the people involved…you’re like- NO WAY - I don’t want to get involved!”
This was Pilates reaction...
And it keeps building from here...
And so Pilate hands Jesus over to the Jews to be crucified!
But following the crucifixion, listen to how important it was for them to be careful with what they did with the body...
So what do we know from this exchange!??
We know that PEOPLE WERE LISTENING!
When Jesus spoke about His resurrection....people were listening!
They understood what He was saying!
And BECAUSE they understood, they decided to do what they could to MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE to - FAKE a RESURRECTION!
They set this up so that it would be IMPOSSIBLE for the followers of Jesus to FAKE a RESURRECTION!
The chief priests and the pharisees, and Pilate and some soldiers...
put all their energy into PREVENTING the followers of Jesus from:
stealing the body of Jesus
faking His resurrection
And so - THEY MEANT BUSINESS!
They KNEW what was at stake!
They couldn’t AFFORD for the body of Christ to be stolen, and a resurrection story to begin to spread!
And so from the ROMAN perspective AND from the Jewish Leader perspective…the Burial of Jesus Christ was - PRIORITY!
GET THIS RIGHT - Pilate would have been thinking!
GET THIS RIGHT - the chief priests and pharisees would have been thinking!
NOW...
SLIDE: The Burial of Jesus Christ: The Expectation of His Followers
The Burial of Jesus Christ
So on the one hand - we have the Roman Empire…the chief priests…and the pharisees...
…and ALL of their energy is focused on PREVENTING the body of Christ from being TAKEN!
And on the other hand, you had the followers of Christ...
What were their expectations following the crucifixion?
What were they thinking, following the death of Jesus?
QUESTION: Did they expect Jesus to rise from the dead??
You’ll notice here that the body of Jesus was wrapped in linen cloths, WITH THE SPICES...
Why spices?
Because they ASSUMED that Christ’s body was going to DECAY...
So we see the friends of Christ…His followers....NOT PLOTTING to steal His body...
But what - ASSUMING His body would decay and return to the dust...
So they PROVIDED spices to help in the decaying process...
as was part of the Jewish Burial Custom....
They weren’t thinking about the resurrection at that time..
Now we might think that the apostles were completely confident that Christ would RISE from the dead...
But scripture tells us otherwise!
**College Accounting Class - Professor (broken English)
They couldn’t grasp the IDEA that Jesus was going to DIE, and then RISE again to lIfe...
And JUST SO WE KNOW that nothing has changed....they didn’t ask Him to clarify (like us)
And so BECAUSE they didn’t understand the concept of Him RISING from the dead...
THEY NEVER assumed that He would.
We see this as well...
The guards come to capture Jesus and He says this...
The disciples LEFT Him and fled.
Confident now? - NO
They fled!
They went into hiding...
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