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Approximately 2000 years ago there was an event that was unnoticed by the vast majority of people in the world.
It was the death of a man named Jesus.
Crucifixion is nothing new, it was a torturous process.
Arguably the worst way to die ever invented by mankind.
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Life Principle - We’re Not Perfect, Because Of This We Need A Savior.
Life Point- What Happened?
There is a huge amount of detail about what happened.
However, I am going to focus on only a few
Jesus is The God Man.
100% God and 100% Man.
People misunderstood His life and His purpose here on earth.
His purpose was to bring peace between God and man.
Not between man and man, at least not yet.
Because Jesus proclaimed Himself to be equal with God the father, he really ticked off the religious leaders of the day.
They wanted Him dead.
They didn’t do it themselves because the common people saw Him as a popular leader.
He raised the dead, healed the sick and cast out demons with a word.
But he didn’t have such nice things to say about the hypocritical leaders.
As an example he said:
They hated him so much that they got the Romans to do their dirty work for them!
They knew he would suffer greatly, but they didn’t care.
They wanted Him gone.
I did some research about the physical pain of crucifixion.
Let me share with you some of things I picked up.
A lot of this comes from an article at Azusa Pacific University on the subject.
“It is important to understand from the beginning that Jesus would have been in excellent physical condition.
As a carpenter by trade, He participated in physical labor.
In addition, He spent much of His ministry traveling on foot across the countryside.
His stamina and strength were, most likely, very well developed.
With that in mind, it is clear just how much He suffered: If this torture could break a man in such good shape, it must have been a horrific experience.”
“After the Passover celebration, Jesus takes His disciples to Gethsemene to pray.
During His anxious prayer about the events to come, Jesus sweats drops of blood.
There is a rare medical condition called hemohedrosis, during which the capillary blood vessels that feed the sweat glands break down.
Blood released from the vessels mixes with the sweat; therefore, the body sweats drops of blood.”
This is brought on by high anxiety and also makes the skin on a person’s body extremely tender.
Pilate orders Jesus to be flogged as required by Roman law before crucifixion Traditionally, the accused stood naked, and the flogging covered the area from the shoulders down to the upper legs.
The whip consisted of several strips of leather.
In the middle of the strips were metal balls that hit the skin, causing deep bruising.
In addition, sheep bone was attached to the tips of each strip.
When the bone makes contact with Jesus’ skin, it tears out chunks of flesh.
The flogging leaves the skin on Jesus’ back in long ribbons.
By this point, He has lost a great volume of blood.
Roman soldiers place a crown of thorns on Jesus’ head and a robe on His back (Matthew 27:28-29).
The robe helps the blood clot which helps to prevent Jesus from sustaining more blood loss.
As they hit Jesus in the head (Matthew 27:30), the thorns from the crown push into the skin and He begins bleeding profusely.
As they mock Him, the soldiers also belittle Jesus by spitting on Him (Matthew 27:30).
They rip the robe off Jesus’ back, opening those wounds.
Jesus’ physical condition is extremely bad.
Because of this He is unable to carry the cross and Simon of Cyrene carries it for Him.
The accused needed to be nailed to the [cross beam] while lying down, so Jesus is thrown to the ground, reopening His wounds, grinding in dirt, and causing bleeding.
The huge nail (seven to nine inches long) damages or severs the major nerve to the hand upon impact.
This causes continuous agonizing pain up both of Jesus’ arms.
Jesus’ feet were nailed as well.
The knees would have been about 90 degrees, the weight His body pushes down on the nails and the ankles support the weight.
Because of this His body pulls down on the diaphragm and the air moves into His lungs and remains there.
Jesus must push up, which causes more pain.
This would make it extremely difficult to speak.
I find it interesting that one for the final things He says is, “Forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
All of this would lead to a slow form suffocation.
This would cause the heart to beat faster and would cause fluid to build up around His heart.
The lack of oxygen also damages the heart.
Jesus most likely died of a heart attack.
When the soldiers came to Jesus, He was already dead so they did not break His legs (John 19:33).
Instead, the soldiers pierced His side (John 19:34) to assure that He was dead.
In doing this, it is reported that “blood and water came out” (John 19:34), referring to the watery fluid surrounding the heart and lungs.
While thinking about His murder, the depth of Christ’s pain emphasizes the true extent of God’s love for His creation.
Learning about the crucifixion and pondering on what He went through is a constant reminder of the magnificent demonstration of God’s love for humanity.
This was always God’s plan.
Jesus was the perfect sacrifice to satisfy God’s justice and His wrath on sin and yet bring us into a right relationship with Him.
He lived a sinless life and through His blood, shed on the cross of Calvary, we have peace with God.
He died on a Roman cross for your sin and my sin, but He didn’t stay dead.
He rose from the dead.
Declaring victory over death, Hell, and the grave!
He left and said He would return to judge the living and the dead.
And then He will rule and reign forever.
Life Point - Why Was This Necessary?
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Why was this necessary?
Because man is born in and lives in sin.
What is sin?
In its simplest form, it means to miss the mark.
It carries with it the image of a marksman with a bow and arrow.
If he misses his shot, he has sinned or missed the mark.
How are we born in sin?
Because Adam and Eve had one rule and they broke that rule.
Because of their sin, their missing the mark, sin entered the world.
Because we are there descendants we are born into sin.
The world is decaying day by day.
Because of sin being in the world it decays us day by day.
Because one of God’s attributes is justice someone has to pay for our sin against God.
You may say, so what?
What’s the big deal?
Why does God require this?
Sin is about who it is against.
If I slap someone in the face.
I have sinned against them.
We may even get into a physical fight.
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