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Speaker 2All right , guys , we made it to the end of the week , and all week I have been taking you on a journey to Golgotha . So I took you to Mount Moriah for the story of Abraham and Isaac , where God stopped Abraham from sacrificing Isaac and provided a substitutionary sacrifice in the form of an adult male lamb with his head stuck in a crown of thorns . Then we took you to the battle of Elah , where the teenage shepherd boy named David killed the giant Philistine Goliath , cut off his head with his own sword and took that head to Jerusalem and he buried it on a mountainside outside the city walls , the mountain Mount Moriah , the nickname for that mountain , golgotha , or the place of a skull . Now we need to fast forward about another thousand years or so so we've got a 30-year-old Jew from Bethlehem named Jesus , who started his public ministry . He began to perform signs and wonders that you know , wowed the crowds and infuriated the religious , governmental and cultural elites of his day , and over the next few years he gained a dedicated following of apostles and disciples . He claimed to be the Son of God , the Messiah for all mankind , and the Jewish elites just could not really let this perceived blasphemy stand right , so they enlisted the help of the Roman Empire to capture , condemn and murder Jesus . The Romans scourged him with a cat of nine tails and then delivered him to be crucified on a wooden cross . So let's actually pick the story up here in Mark 15 , verse 22 . And they brought him to the place called Golgotha , which means place of a skull , and it was the third hour when they crucified him , and the inscription of the charge against him read the king of the Jews .
Speaker 2Now , verse 33 . And when the sixth hour had come and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour , and at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice , which means my God , my God , why have you forsaken me ? My God , my God , why have you forsaken me ? Verse 37, . And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last . Then Jesus was taken down from the cross and was placed in a tomb .
Speaker 2And , guys , we kind of know at this point that , you know , a stone was rolled onto the opening of the tomb and that was really supposed to be the end of the story , right ? But let's go to Matthew 28 , and we'll start in verse 1 . Now , after the Sabbath , sabbath , toward the dawn of the first day of the week , mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb and behold , there was a great earthquake , for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it . His appearance was like lightning and his clothing white as snow and for fear of him , the guards trembled and became like dead men . But the angel said to the woman do not be afraid men . But the angel said to the woman do not be afraid , for I know that you seek Jesus , who is crucified , but he is not here , for he is risen , as he said , arrested , scourged , condemned , crucified , resurrected . And , guys , if we go all the way back to Genesis three , verse 15 , you know God is talking to Satan , the serpent . This is after the fall and says this I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring . He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel . So in this moment , jesus crushed Golgotha , the place of the skull and the head of the serpent . So we've been working on this all week .
Speaker 2So let's put this all together and we're going to do that by looking at three things One , substitutionary atonement . Two , the defeat of the enemies of God . And three Jesus conquering the grave . So , number one substitutionary atonement . So God called Abraham to sacrifice his son on Mount Moriah . But then God provided a substitutionary sacrifice in the form of an adult male lamb with its head stuck in a crown of thorns . So this prefigures God offering his one and only son , jesus , as a substitutionary payment for the sins of all humanity .
Speaker 2Number two the defeat of the enemies of God . So David of the tribe of Judah kills Goliath , the great enemy of God . Then he takes Goliath's decapitated head and buries it on Mount Moriah and it became known as Golgotha . And who is in the genealogical line of David ? Jesus , who became the lion of the tribe of Judah . And then , number three Jesus conquering the grave . David killing Goliath foreshadows God through Christ defeating sin , and death at Golgotha foreshadows God through Christ defeating sin and death . At Golgotha , jesus , with his own crown of thorns on his head , was sacrificed to pay the sin debt of humanity forever and in full .
Speaker 2So that's pretty awesome , right , you know ? I mean the biblical canon has so many points of crossover and reference , so it's cool to connect some of the dots to make a powerful narrative right over in reference . So it's cool to connect some of the dots to make a powerful narrative right . But how does this apply to you ? Well , when Jesus died on the cross at Golgotha , at Calvary , that counted for you . And if you believe and transfer your faith to that reality the reality that when Jesus died on the cross , that it somehow counted for you then you can be saved . So if you have not previously done so , I am compelling you right now to repent of your life of sin and believe in Jesus . And if you have already done that , then I think it's time you start telling some people about it . All right , guys , thank you for your attention this week . Stay sharp .
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