Mark 15:33-39
The Death

V.33
Birth = Light
Death = Darkness

See Exodus 10:21-23

V.34 “Eloi, Eloi...”

A cry of abandonment or a cry of direction? Or both?

•Psalm 22 (Innocent Sufferer)

V.35-36 “Listen, he’s calling Elijah”

A terrible misunderstanding

1 Peter 3:18 For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.

V.37 “With a loud cry...”

“It is finished. Father, into Your hands I commit my spirit.”

Tetelastai
1. A merchant
2. An artist
3. A servant
4. A priest

The gospel is not D-O.
It is D-O-N-E

John 6:28 Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?"29 Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."

“Father, into Your hands I commit my spirit.”

What we fear the most will come upon us like sleep and we will awake in the arms of Jesus.

V.38-39 Three significant events

1. Total darkness

“Why is this happening?”

2. The tearing of the temple’s curtain
(Heb. 9:1)
•Certain times
•Certain place
•Certain person could mediate

3. Centurion’s statement

“Surely this man was the Son of God.”

a. The prayer of Jesus

Luke 23:34 “Father, forgive them.” in everything that these soldiers heard from the cross I guarantee they had heard nothing like this.

b. The conversation with the thief
c. The blackout
d. The loud cry

What did the death of Jesus accomplish?
2 Cor 5:19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them.

Do you believe that Christ died for you.

Acts 2?
Acts 2:23 and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross.

Acts 2:36 "Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ." 37 When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"

38 Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins.

This Christmas turn your attention away from Bethlehem to Calvary

✝ Communion