Day 317 (Luke 23, John 18-19) - Year 6
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Today's reading has a lot in common with yesterday's reading. We covered the first step yesterday, so today will look at the last half. And IT may not be suitable for little ears, so usual own discretion. When we left off, jesus had just gone through six trials and was ultimately handed over by pilot for crucial fiction.

At this point he's been mark and beta in, had a crown of thorns put on his head, and i'm guessing they didn't do that gently then on his way to cross, either personally flags him or ordered him to be flog. The jews have a rule that they can't flog a person more than thirty nine times. But pilot is a roman gardens.

And the romans have a reputation for being more cruel than other governments. They want to strike fear in the hearts of the interaction is with public beatings, invisible, crucify, tions. So we don't know how many times jesus was beaten.

We just know from the province of as a fifty two fourteen that he to be beaten beyond human recognition. This is not the image we often see of him on the cross with a few cuts in a trigger of blood that feels like a mercury to what he actually endured. This speeding is a total undoing of his body.

In fact, he's so weak that they have to get someone else to Carry the cross for him. They pull in a man named Simon who has likely come to jerusalem to celebrate, pass over. He's from the town of siren, which is in modern day libya.

It's about eleven hood miles away, making IT about a six week journey. As soon as he arrived, they pull him in to help jesus as he stumbles toward his death. By the way, most historians indicate that jesus would have been Carrying just across beam.

The party goes behind the arms because woods was scarce in israel. So the romans would often use fixed, upright, over and over. And IT was possibly just a bare tree trunk that they would nail the cross pain, too.

The romans are often the crucified people on the main roads going into the city for a few reasons. First, they would only execute people outside the cities. And second, these criminals would serve as a warning sign to coming visitors.

So jesus is probably classified on a main road leading out of the city on a tree track, and he was probably crucified at street level ee to eye with the people walking past, because john nineteen twenty six to twenty seven tells us he's close enough to talk with onlookers despite not having much breath, his lungs from the torture. Scripture never tells us that happened on a hill, but IT probably did, because jerusalem in the outlying areas are basically all hills. Scripture tells us that happens at gog artha, which means the place of the skull.

Some say that phrase describes any place of death, while others believe IT refers to a hill that looks like a skull. There is a spot on the north side of the city with the hill that resembles a skull face. So will linked to an image of that in the show notes.

By the way, the word calvery is just the lattin translation of the word gogoffs. So it's referring to the same place, just in a different language. I say all that to say, we don't know where jesus was crucified.

We just take the piece of scripture gives us and try to put the story together from there. Some believe he was crucified on the mound of olives on the e side of jerusalem. Others say he was at a hill on the west side of the city, which is now marked by the church of the holy semple ker and IT.

Others say he was on the north side of the city, knew that skull face till this spot is now marked by the sight of the garden tub. Those last two options, the church of the holy selector on the west in the garden tub to the north, are both on moult. Maria, that's the hill who abril him, took his son to offer him up as a sacrifice in genesis twenty two, which foresees ws this event two thousand years later, where god provided the true sacrifice.

His son, as jesus has been resident ed, the soldiers cast lots over his clothes, which not only fulfills provacatzia, potentially gives us some insight into something that happens at his resurrection. Later, put a pin in that will come back to you tomorrow. Then not only does he asked the father to forgive his crucifiers, but despite his physical agony, he also spent his final moments inviting signers into the kingdom.

Two criminals are crucified on either side of him. One marked him, but one hales him as king, and asks him to remember him when he comes into his kingdom. And jesus says, guess what? That's today.

I'll see there. This man spent his life in sin and turned to crist at the last possible moment. And jesus says, you are welcome in my kingdom.

You get a seat at the table too. Rome crucified people for roughly a thousand years, and they probably changed up the methods over time, sometimes tying certain limbs and sometimes nAiling them. Until recently, there was no arch ological evidence to help us understand crucial fictions, despite there are being possibly millions of people who died that way.

All we had were biblical and historical accounts. But in one nineteen sixty eight, an ankle bone was found, and in two thousand seven a full skeleton was found. Not of jesus, of course, that of other people who were crucified.

We've linked to articles about both of those stories in the show notes. While we don't know the exact process replacements the romans used on jesus, we do know from loop twenty four that there were nails and vote, his hands and his feet as he's hanging on the cross cheese. The first line of sam twenty two, when he says, my god, my god, why have you forsaken me? Most people believe this points to a separation between god, the son and god, the father.

In that moment, they say it's because god can't look on sin. We even seen a song in church that says the father turned his face away. But based on scripture, I think that's not only not what happened, but I don't even think it's possible.

Let me impact that sam twenty two was written by king David in parts of IT are certainly profited statements pointing to the masa. But here's what many people forget in jesus day. The books of the bible didn't have chapters.

So from what I understand, when they went to reference a certain sum, they would do IT by quoting the first line. So here's what I think may have been happening in this moment where jesus is on across quoting the first line of this. Sam, I think it's almost as if you're saying, hey, remember that sam, about becoming masa, that privacy, David wrote, it's about me.

This is IT. I'm IT. Here is why I think this is important. Our faith is founded on who god is in. Central to this idea is the trinity, god the father, god the son, and god the sphere.

There are three eternally distinct persons of the one true god, that each other, the same characteristics and personality, but with different functions and roles, they are eternally distinct, but also eternally unified. I don't believe it's theologically possible for any person of the trinity to be removed from the others even for a moment. And in fact, first twenty four of sam twenty two, that same chapter says he has not hidden his face from him.

He didn't turn his face away. People tend to think that god can log on sin, which is an idea that comes from her bagg. One three bit is taken out of context. God sees all in in the book of job. God, the father has conversations with sin.

The reason I think this is important to point out is because if we believe in a god who can't look at sin, who turns away from himself, that often translate tes to the human heart, s shame that drives us from god when we sin. Instead of encouraging us to run two guard when we sent, if you disagree with my thoughts on what jesus was trying to communicate, no worries were still friends and you're probably in the majority. I just tried to point out this single any time and counter this conversation in case it's a new idea for some of you.

We'll even link to a few things in the shower notes that may be helpful if you want to dig into this further. Right before jesus dies, he tells the father he's committing his spirit into his hands, ts, and cries out the phrase that reminds me, I can add nothing to his saving work on across. He says IT is finished when they come to make sure he's dead.

They, pears aside in both blood and water, pour out. We've linked to an article that explains in graphic detail what is happening to his body at this time, but the summary is that he probably died of a heart attack outfitting because the sun is about to set and the new day is about to start on where they can't do any work. They get him off across quickly.

A man named Joseph asked for his body, embarrassing in his own tomb nearby. Then Joseph and nick demas and a few women are there, and they rap him and annoying him. Roll the stones over the tomb.

These tomes are often cave like, and a big rock is used to cover the mouth of the cave. This day brought up so many emotions. It's exhAusting in moving in sharking, in terrible and beautiful. And I can get over IT. Picking one god shop was chAllenging, but I decided to focus on the maculate things god does that barely get a sentence.

These are from all four gospel accounts in Matthew twenty seven, fifty two to fifty three, we saw that there was a great earthquake in people who were dead and buried, suddenly resurrected, and walk through the city. He brings the dead to life in john pilot accidentally proposition, writing that jesus is the king of the jews in matter. Mark and luke all tell us that the sky went dark at noon, and in the temple the curtain was torn from top to bottom, from heaven to earth, indicating that he was an act of god opening up his presence to his people in a way they hadn't been able to access before. Ha, lua, and praise the lord, he is where the joy is.

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