Crucifixion: Words of Suffering•
I. SIN’S SACRIFICE
Jn 19:28a After this, knowing that all was now complete,
A. SINLESS SON
1. SMITTEN BY GOD
(see also) Isaiah 53:3-5 “He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our grief’s and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was pierced for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities; upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with His wounds we are healed”
Habakkuk 1:13 “Thine eyes are too pure to approve evil, and Thou cannot look on wickedness with favor.”
John 1:29 “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world”
II Corinthians 5:21 God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him
Zechariah 12:10 “I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn”
Rom 4:25 “Jesus was delivered up because of our transgression”
2. MERCY SEAT
(see also) I John 4:10 “He became the propitiation (mercy seat) for our sins.”
B. SURE SUBSTITUTE
1. TRANSACTION
(see also) I Pet 2:24 “He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross”
I Pet 3:18 “Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit”
2. GOD-MAN
(see also) I Tim 3:16 “God was manifest in the flesh”
Mt 11:27 “No man knows the Son except the Father”
Phil 2:6 “Made Himself in the likeness of man”
Lamentations 1:12-13 “Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto His sorrow”
Psalm 42:1-3 “As the deer pants for the stream, so my heart pants after you, O God.”
II. SCRIPTURE SATISFIED
Jn 19:28b Jesus said (to complete the Scripture),
A. SUBMISSION TO GOD’S WORD
1. BLESSED MAN
(see also) Psalm 1:1 “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.”
2. PSALM 69
Psalm 69:3 “I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God
Psalm 69:4 “More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies.”
Psalm 69:7 “For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach”
Psalm 69:17 “Hide not your face from your servant; for I am in distress; make haste to answer me”
Psalm 69:29 “But I am afflicted and in pain”
Psalm 69:21 “Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none. They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.”
B. SURRENDER TO GOD’S WILL
1. DEATH
(see also) John 4:34 “My food . . . is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish (teleiw) his work”
John 18:11 When he was arrested he told Peter to put his sword away, saying, “Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?”
2. WORK COMPLETE
III. SUPREME SUFFERING
A. SUBSTANTIAL PAIN
Jn 19:28c “I thirst.”
1. CRUCIFIXION
2. WHY NOW?
(see also) Luke 16:24 “Have Lazarus dip the tip of his finger in water and touch my tongue, for I am tormented in the flame”
B. SOLUTION
1. WORKMAN’S THIRST
Jn 19:29 A jar full of sour wine was nearby, so
(see also) Numbers 6:13; Ruth 2:14
2. SATED
Mt 27:48 one of them immediately ran and took a sponge, filled it and put it on a hyssop stalk, holding it to His mouth to drink.
(see also) Ex 12:22; Lev 14:4, 6; Num 19:18; Ps 51:7
Rev 5:5-6 description in heaven of the Lion of the tribe of Judah who turns out to be “a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain”
Heb 4:16 “He can be touched by the feelings of our infirmities”
Heb 2:17 “He is a merciful and faithful high priest.”
I Peter 5:7 “He cares for you”!
Rev 22:17 “And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And he that heareth, let him say, Come. And he that is athirst, let him come: he that will, let him take the water of life freely.”