Good Friday 2024: Last Words of Christ

GOOD FRIDAY

March 29, 2024

LAST WORDS OF CHRIST

Luke 23

 

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INTRODUCTION:

• 1 Timothy 2:5-6 (NIV) For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, ⁶ who gave himself as a ransom for all people.
• 1 Peter 3:18 (NIV) For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.
• Romans 5:8 (NIV) God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

 

 

TEXT:

Luke 23:33-34 (NIV) When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left. ³⁴ Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.

Luke 23:35-38 (NIV) The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar ³⁷ and said, “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.”

³⁸ There was a written notice above him, which read: this is the king of the jews.

 

 

SEVEN STATEMENTS FROM THE CROSS:

 

1.

Luke 23:34 (NIV) Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”

Matthew 5:43-44 (NIV) “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.”

Acts 2:14 (NIV) Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say.

Acts 2:36 (NIV) “Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.”

Acts 2:37-38 (NIV) 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. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 2:41 (NIV) Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

 

 

2.

Luke 23:39-43 (NIV) ³⁹ One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”

⁴⁰ But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? ⁴¹ We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”

⁴² Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”

⁴³ Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

Luke 23:39 (NIV) “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”

Luke 23:40-41 (NIIV) But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? ⁴¹ We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”

Luke 23:42 (NIV) ⁴² Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”

Romans 10:9 (NIV) If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Luke 23:43 (NIV) Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

 

 

3.

John 19:26-27 (NIV) When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

 

 

4.

Matthew 27:45-46 (NIV) From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. ⁴⁶ About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).

Psalm 22:1 (NIV) My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Matthew 27:46 (NIV) “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

 

Matthew 27:46 (NIV) Why have you forsaken me?”

 

2 Corinthians 5.21 (NIV) God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Romans 6.23 (NIV) …the wages of sin is death…

1 Peter 2:24 (NIV) “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross…”

2 Corinthians 5.21 (NIV) God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Habakkuk 1:13 (NIV) says, Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.

Galatians 3:13 (NIV) says, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”

 

 

5.

John 19:28 (NIV) Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”

 

 

6.

John 19:29-30 (NIV) A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. ³⁰ When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

John 19:28 (NIV) where John said, Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled…

John 4:34 (NIV) “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.”

Colossians 2:13-14 (NIV) Christ forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 1.20 (NIV) …and through Christ to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Isaiah 53:6 (NIV) We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Ephesians 2:8-9 (NIV) For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.

 

 

7.

Luke 23:44-46 (NIV) It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, ⁴⁵ for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. ⁴⁶ Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.

 

 

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