WHY CRUCIFIXION? // Good Friday
Click here to read this evening’s text in full from Matthew 27:27-54
- Jesus’ Crucifixion Proves His Sacrificial Death is Sufficient for Your Salvation
• Priests inspected the sacrifice, not the sinner.
• Jesus is the perfect sacrifice once and for all
• Hebrews 10:11-14 (MSG) | Every priest goes to work at the altar each day, offers the same old sacrifices year in, year out, and never makes a dent in the sin problem. As a priest, Christ made a single sacrifice for sins, and that was it! | Then he sat down right beside God and waited for his enemies to cave in. It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person to perfect some very imperfect people. By that single offering, he did everything that needed to be done for everyone who takes part in the purifying process
- Jesus’ Crucifixion Proves Death is Defeated for ALL
• Death was the separation from God
• Revelation 1:18 (NIV) | I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades. - Jesus’ Crucifixion Shows the material world matters
• Consider this Good Friday
– Remember Ash Wednesday: dust is precious to God
– Jesus’ death impacted the physical world
• You matter to God, which is why Jesus died for YOU!
