The Suffering Son of Man
John 19:28-29

Hebrews 4:15 “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.”


Jesus physically suffered, atonement

Psalm 22:15, “My mouth is dried up like a potsherd and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.”

Jesus was 100% man, the incarnation

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” John 1:14

“Who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” Philippians 2:6-8

kenosis = emptied

Nicene Creed puts it, “For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven; he became incarnate by the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary, and was made human.”

Jesus took our punishment, substitution.

“And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.” 1 John 2:2 NASB

"Take a branch of the hyssop plant, dip it into the bowl filled with blood, and then wipe the blood on the sides and tops of the doorframes." Exodus 12:22

John 4:11 “Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. 14 But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

Cross = Love - Week 4 - My God, My God

Matt. 27:37-45 (NASB)
37 And above His head they put up the charge against Him which read, “THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.” 38 At that time two rebels *were being crucified with Him, one on the right and one on the left. 39 And those passing by were speaking abusively to Him, shaking their heads, 40 and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the
cross.” 41 In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking Him and saying, 42 “He saved others; He cannot save Himself! He is the King of Israel; let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in Him. 43 HE HAS TRUSTED IN GOD; LET GOD RESUCE HIM now, IF HE TAKES PLEASURE IN HIM; for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.'” 44 And the rebels who had been crucified with Him were also insulting Him in the same way. 45 Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour. 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabaktanei?” that is, “MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?”


Psalms 22:7-8
7 All who see me deride me; They sneer, they shake their heads, saying, 8 “Turn him over to the Lord; let Him save him; Let Him rescue him, because delights in him.”

Psalm 22:1 - My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?


Psalm 22:22-24
22 I will proclaim Your name to my brothers; In the midst of the assembly I will praise You. 23 You who fear the Lord, praise Him; All you descendants of Jacob, glorify Him, And stand in awe of Him, all you descendants of Israel. 24 For He has not despised nor scorned the suffering of the afflicted; Nor has He hidden His face from him; But when he cried to Him for help, He heard.


Psalm 22:30-31
30 A posterity will serve Him; It will be told of the Lord to the coming generation. 31 They will come and will declare His righteousness to a people who will be born, that He has performed it.

Care Given at the Cross
John 19:17-27

Love Our family

Luke 2:34-35 34 Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother: “This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against, 35 so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul too.”

Ex. 20:12 12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

1 Tim. 5:3-4 3 Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need. 4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.

1 Tim. 5:8 Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Love Believers as Family

1 Tim. 5:1-2 5 Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

Romans 12:10 10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.

Gal. 6:2 2 Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

Gal. 6:10 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.


John 13…34A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. 35By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

1 Timothy 5:Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. ESV

Warren Wiesbe, “One of the weaknesses in the church is Christians don’t get close enough to the cross to feel their responsibility.”

How Sure is Your Salvation
Luke 23:43

1. I will meet God after I die.

Luke 23:40 - But the other criminal protested, “Don’t you fear God even when you have been sentenced to die?

Hebrews 9:27 - And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment

2. I have sinned against God.

Luke 23:41 - We deserve to die for our crimes...”

Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

3. Jesus is more than a man.

Luke 23:41 - "...but this man hasn’t done anything wrong.”

Ecclesiastes 7:20 - "There is not a single person in all the earth who is always good and never sins."

2 Corinthians 5:21 - For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
4. Only God's grace can save me.

Luke 23:42 - Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.

Ephesians 2:8-9 - God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
5. Jesus will save me if I ask Him

Luke 23:42 - Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”

Acts 16:31 - They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, along with everyone in your household.”
HOW CAN I BE SURE I AM SAVED?

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

It is IMMEDIATE - "Today"

It is CERTAIN - "you will"

It is RELATIONSHIP - "be with me"

It is FOREVER - "in paradise"

14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:14-15

WHEN CAN I BE SAVED?

2 Corinthians 6:2 - For God says, “At just the right time, I heard you. On the day of salvation, I helped you.” Indeed, the “right time” is now. Today is the day of salvation.

Romans 10:13 - "Anyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."

Forgive Them
Luke 23:26-34

“I am so bored with it all.” Winston Churchill
“I finally get to see Marilyn again.” Joe Dimaggio
“oh wow.” Steve Jobs
“Money can’t buy life.” Bob Marley
“Friends applaud, the comedy is finished.” Beethoven
banker Richard Mellon to his brother who he had a 7 decade game of tag, “Last tag”
Playwright Wilson Mizner to the priest, “why should I talk to you? I’ve just been talking to your boss.”
Groucho Marx, “Die my dear? Why, that's the last thing I'll do."

READ Luke 23:26-34

Isa. 53:12 Because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors

1. GOD FORGIVES ME GENEROUSLY.

Isaiah 55:7 - Let them turn to the Lord that he may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously.

2. GOD FORGIVES ME COMPLETELY.

Colossians 2:13-14 - You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. 14 He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.

3. GOD FORGIVES ME REPEATEDLY.

Hebrews 7:25 - Therefore he is able, once and forever, to save those who come to God through him. He lives forever to intercede with God on their behalf.

4. GOD FORGIVES ME FREELY.

Ephesians 1:7 - He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins.
Acts 7:59 They went on stoning Stephen as he called on the Lord and said, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!” 60 Then he fell on his knees and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” Having said this, he [a]fell asleep. NASB

The Kind of Worshipers the Father Seeks
Psalm 100:1-5 (ESV)

Matthew 15:8-9 “‘These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
9 They worship me in vain;
their teachings are merely human rules.

“Worship is to honor with extravagant love and extreme submission.” Webster's Dictionary,1828

“Redemption is the means; worship is the goal. In one sense, worship is the whole point of everything. It is the purpose of history, the goal of the whole Christian story. Worship is not one segment of the Christian life among others. Worship is the entire Christian life, seen as a priestly offering to God. And when we meet together as a church, our time of worship is not merely a preliminary to something else; rather, it is the whole point of our existence as the body of Christ.” –John Frame
“Worship is our response, both personal and corporate, to God for who He is, and what He has done; expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live.” -- Louie Giglio
“Worship is ascribing honor, glory, and respect to God; treasuring Him above all things.” – Allen Bonnell

John 4:23 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

Pslam 100:1-5 Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth!
2 Serve the LORD with gladness!
Come into his presence with singing!
3 Know that the LORD, he is God!
It is he who made us, and we are his;[a]
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; bless his name!
5 For the LORD is good;
his steadfast love endures forever,
and his faithfulness to all generations.

He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.” Luke 19:40

1. Worship with awe.

Hebrews 12:28-29 28 Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, 29 for our God is a consuming fire.

Psalm 95:6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!

2. Worship with abandon.

2 Samuel 6:14 14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might. And David was wearing a linen ephod.

2 Samuel 6:21-22 21 And David said to Michal, “It was before the LORD, who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me as prince[a] over Israel, the people of the LORD—and I will celebrate before the LORD. 22 I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your[b] eyes. But by the female servants of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor.”

3. Worship with intimacy.

Psalm 27:4 One thing have I asked of the LORD,
that will I seek after:
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD
and to inquire in his temple.

“Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.” Hebrews 13:15-16


“O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me!
Give ear to my voice when I call to you!
Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,
and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!” Psalm 141:1-2

Who do you think you are?
Judges 6:11-23

Designed by God

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:27

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. Psalm 139:13-14


Shaped by others

Judges
11 Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor.” 13 And Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian.” 14 And the Lord[a] turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?” 15 And he said to him, “Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.” 16 And the Lord said to him, “But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.” 17 And he said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me. 18 Please do not depart from here until I come to you and bring out my present and set it before you.” And he said, “I will stay till you return.”
19 So Gideon went into his house and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah[b] of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them. 20 And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them on this rock, and pour the broth over them.” And he did so. 21 Then the angel of the Lord reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes. And fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight. 22 Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the Lord. And Gideon said, “Alas, O Lord God! For now I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.” 23 But the Lord said to him, “Peace be to you. Do not fear; you shall not die.”

Michaelangelo (pic of David)

Healed through the Father.
7 And David said to him, “Do not fear, for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father, and you shall eat at my table always.” 8 And he paid homage and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog such as I?” 9 Then the king called Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master's grandson. 2 Samuel 9:7-9
“But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “ God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” James 4:6

Choosing the Better
Learning to be Mary-ed

And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me." But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.
LUKE 10:38-42

"We are so steeped in the error of working for God that we are determined to defend Martha. In straining to give her some due, some merit we are defending our own self-conscious labors and hoping they too will count with God. They will not. Make no mistake, Jesus scolded Martha.
Martha had chosen duty. Mary had chosen Jesus.
Adoration
Adoration Martha Kilpatrick.

"Work does not begin with work. God's work must begin with rest. It then moves out from rest to power and performance. Work that does not start with rest is work without Christ's approval or participation. Life is confusing, insolvable...Need screams your name.”
“You have nothing to give to Him until you are filled with Him."
Adoration
Adoration | Martha Kilpatrick, pp. 111, 113.

"Choosing can be casual, floating lazily with the tide. Indecision is a decision not to decide and as such…rules.”
Adoration
Adoration| Martha Kilpatrick

Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is week. Mark 14:38

They bear fruit in every good work and increase in the knowledge of GOD. - Colossians 1:10

Take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. - 2 Corinthians 10:5

10:5

"The power of influence is a scent rather than a speech, a mystery instead of an explanation. Influence can never be conscious. If it is conscious, it is manipulation and not inspiration."
Adoration
Adoration | Martha Kilpatrick, p.57

As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word. but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. - Matthew 13:22

Let marriage be held in honor among all… - Hebrews 13:4

Who Am I?
1 Peter 2:9-10

“Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ.” Blaise Pascal

1 Peter 2:9-10 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

1. You are accepted.

“He hath made us accepted in the beloved.” Ephesians 1:6

2. You have purpose.

3. You are valuable.

“For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.” 1 Peter 3:18

4. You are adopted.

“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” Romans 8:15

5. You are forgiven.

“As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.” Psalm 103:12

Your Next Step > Staying Where You Are
Mark 1:17

Vision Statement - Growing leaders to plant healthy churches in college towns across Kentucky and beyond for the glory of God.

Mark 1:17 “And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.”

Following Jesus

Being changed by Jesus

“And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:30-31

(Vanny Testimony)

On mission with Jesus

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