Why Christians Remember the Crucifixion of Jesus | Sandals Church

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have something to eat you can have something to drink like water wine milk juice and and or whatever and you need something to eat like a cracker piece of bread cereal potato chip whatever it is just make sure you've got something to eat and you are ready to receive communion afterwards well today pastor matt our lead pastor is going to bring it he is bringing the heat with this message and i i am so excited for what he has in store for us he is going to speak a word that god has given him god is going to speak through him here is our lead pastor matt brown is going to be hot [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey guys welcome to sandals church super glad you're here things look a little different today we are here in the hunter park campus uh uh theater auditorium whatever you want to call it getting ready for our series called you next week super excited getting the studio ready so just be praying for that and be praying about all the friends that you need to invite to church because here's the thing you know so many christians are scared to death of the enneagram here's the thing your lost friends your unchurched friends they're not afraid of it and they might have a conversation about how to get real using the enneagram and then ultimately we want to use that to bring them to jesus so be praying for that and today we're going to talk about communion why christians remember the crucifixion so i've used the word communion for some of you if you grew up catholic you just call it mass the entire service is centered around that some of your traditions are the word eucharist celebrating the eucharist which is the greek word that means to give thanks in the tradition that i grew up in we call it the lord's supper uh which is always funny to me because um when i was a kid literally i remember they would pass the plate at the end which we're gonna do it's not a plate don't worry you don't have to give it your first time in church it's we're actually gonna give you a cracker and a little bit of juice don't get too excited it's a small cracker and a small amount of juice uh and if you're on home at home watching you're on your own so whatever you have in the fridge i would encourage you to do that but i always remember as a kid you know i grew up southern baptist and so they would pass the lord's supper and you're only allowed to take it if you're a believer and so as a kid you watch that delicious cracker go by and there's delicious grape juice that go by it wasn't wine catholic sorry we're southern baptists and you know they're they're praying for jesus about his wine problem so but it always amazes me right because we would say you can't share in the lord's supper unless you're a believer which is interesting because jesus shared the first lord's supper with judas and i don't think he was a believer so that always bothers me like jesus was totally okay with not only a non-believer but his betrayer participating in the first lord's supper and so we have all of this tradition all of these backgrounds all of these places that we come from and it's just unfortunately it's a lot of baggage and so what we try to do at saddles church is we try to strip away uh the traditions we don't need to look at the commandments that god's called us to obey and so there's two things we do at sandals church we do the lord's supper which we're going to do in a minute and we do baptism we consider these ordinances these are not things that we do on our own these are things that we do together as the church as the gathered church because christ called us to he called us to be baptized in the name of the father son and the holy spirit and he asked us to remember his crucifixion his suffering what he did for us on the cross and so i'm going to read entirely out of the book of matthew his remembering of the crucifixion of jesus christ and then we're going to unpack this why do we remember this why is this important because a lot of us just go you know what i need to know where jesus has what he has for me today and i need to focus on my life but here's the thing one of the things maybe that jesus wants to teach you today is we need to take some attention and focus off your life and we need to put it on his life and then he's going to bless your life once you can get all of that attention off you so let's look at matthew 27 15 through 25. it says now at the feast of the governor he was it was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted this is kind of scary you know it's not like california where we just let all the prisoners go you know the romans were like yeah that's probably not a wise decision you know california could learn a lot from rome and if you if you're watching from another state god bless you you're blessed okay but in california we just we just let them all go uh i don't know if you've heard but we're letting the guy go that you know killed a guy running for president i mean just it's just crazy town here but the governor said i'm going to let one guy go any one prisoner whom they wanted they got to pick you know who's the guy who's the gal that we want to be set free which is just it's kind of a weird thing but it's what they did and then they had a notorious prisoner called barabbas this guy was super famous everybody knew him and so when they had gathered pilate said to them who do you want me to release for you and so he brings out the most famous criminal in israel barabbas or he says jesus who is called the christ okay that's kind of a you know a little attack on who jesus has claimed to be for he knew it was out of envy that they had delivered him up not barabbas jesus besides while he was sitting on the judgment seat listen as his wife his own wife husbands listen to me god has given your wife wisdom and you need to listen to her when she comes to you and she says i got a bad feeling about this you're like no it's my lucky day let's go to vegas and she's like no besides while he was sitting there on the judgment seat he's on the judgment seat his wife sent word to him listen to this have nothing to do with that righteous man for i have suffered much because of him today in a dream and think about that pilates warned by his own wife don't mess with this guy jesus i got a bad feeling about this guy listen to that i got a bad feeling about this good guy now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for barabbas and to destroy jesus and the governor again said to them which of the two do you want me to release to you and they said barabbas pilate said to them then what shall i do with jesus who's called the christ and they said to him let him be crucified and he said listen to this why why what evil has he done but they shouted all the more kind of sounds like you know our political rallies right where we just shout down the opposition but they shouted all the more let him be crucified so when pilate saw that he was gaining nothing that's all you need to know about politicians when he was gaining nothing but rather that a riot was beginning he took water and he washed his hands before the crowd sang i am innocent of this man's blood isn't that what politicians like to do amen so my fault i didn't do this i'm innocent of this man's blood see to it yourselves and the people answered listen to this his blood be upon us and upon our children we remember the crucifixion of jesus because number one listen to me it happened one of the things that we're doing in our culture is we're having a selective memory of history we're choosing to teach children what we want them to know about history here's what i believe about history and if you're a teacher and you teach history teach him the good teach him the bad and teach him the ugly but for god's sake teach him the truth teach him the truth the crucifixion happened it's a historical event even non-believers and atheists recognize the crucifixion it was a public event it was a public execution it wasn't done you know like politicians kill people nowadays right they didn't try to cover it up they put it right out there for everybody to see in john the gospel of john chapter 19 verse 20 it says and many jews read this inscription because jesus christ was crucified publicly he was crucified on a street corner for the place where jesus was crucified was near a city and listen to this and just so nobody's confused as to who he was it was written in aramaic latin and in greek everybody knew who jesus was everybody could could read what he was accused of and that's why all of us need to embrace the crucifixion it happened and if there's any muslim friends listening today i love you god loves you and he sent his son to die on the cross for you but the modern day interpretation of the quran says that jesus christ did not die he was not crucified it just appeared as though he did i want you to know that it didn't appear that jesus christ died for your sins he really died he really was crucified and i know that there's so many muslim scholars today that are wrestling with that passage because it seems contrary to what we know of history in regards to the life of jesus no one except muslims denies the crucifixion of jesus and here's the thing to my muslim friends you've been taught that god would never kill his anointed when that's precisely what he did to set you free first corinthians 1 23 says this but we preach christ we preach we preach christ crucified that's the sermon that's the message that's the good the bad and the ugly truth so many people ask me pastor why do lies spread like wildfire here's the answer a lie can be whatever it wants the truth can only be what it is that's why lies spread like wildfire because it can be manipulated twisted turned completely exaggerated or just a bold-faced lie the truth is what it is here's the truth jesus christ was crucified we don't just preach him risen we preach him dead dead we preach christ crucified a stumbling block to the jews if you ever come with me to israel and i say this to my jewish friends many of you who watch sandals online christianity is not anti-jewish christ was jewish the apostles were jewish i want you to know this i was having a conversation with one of our jewish guides in israel and we were at the place where history says jesus christ was crucified there's a church built upon the rock with which people believe this is the place where he died and as our church members were going up to the place to touch the rock upon which history says christ was crucified i asked our jewish guide is it strange to you that most of the religious world worships a jewish man she looked right at me and she said that's interesting i never think of jesus as jewish it broke my heart listen to me my jewish friends god has elected you sovereignly and freely throughout history to use your nation your people to bring about the salvation of the world but in order for us to be saved in order for us to live christ had to die and it's a stumbling block to the jews why is that because the jewish bible says anyone hung upon a tree is cursed and just like the muslims who say god would never curse his anointed and bring him to death jewish my jewish friends they can't reconcile the bible and what it says about a man being hung on a tree being cursed they can't reconcile that when that's exactly what had to happen to jesus he had to be cursed to set us free from our curse he stood in our way look at us we can't fix our brokenness we can't even agree as people on the facts when we see the same thing on tv we can't even agree we can't agree on anything but we divide over everything even something like a vaccine that was meant to save us we we divide against one another even things that are meant to help we divide and bring harm that's why jesus christ was cursed so we could remove the curse of humanity we preach christ crucified and so many of you today you think well i'm not that bad there's a bloody cross that says differently and that cross has your name on it my name on it that cross has muslim names on it jewish names hindu names and buddhist names it has the names of atheists it has the names of blacks and whites and gays and straight it has our names on it jesus christ died for the sins of the world we preach him crucified next we remember the crucifixion listen this to refocus our priorities so many churches today and god bless them we need to pray for them they are not preaching christ crucified they are political entities moving for power and some of you you have pressured me and pushed me to be that that is not our calling i want you to look at the crucifixion story it was politicians it was politically driven people who put jesus on the cross one of the mistakes that we've made historically as christians is we've blamed jews the people called the jews for the death of christ the people the jewish people are not responsible for the death of christ their political leaders were responsible for the death of christ and i just want you to know man i've traveled around the world and i've been stopped and i've been held in in very uncomfortable places and i've been in dark rooms where i'm questioned and people want to know what i think about trump or clinton or obama and i'm always like it doesn't matter what i think it matters what you think because i want to get out of this box but people want to hold me accountable for whoever's in the white house let me tell you who god's going to hold accountable for who's in the white house whoever's in the white house not me he's going to hold me accountable for what's in my house i want you to hear me especially if you're jewish the jewish political elite murdered jesus and why pilate knew why they were envious most of our political leaders more than anything else simply want to be popular so that they can have power and jesus christ was a threat to that these were ultra rich these were the one percenters the one percenters right of the jewish population dressed in purple drank the best wine ate the best food never went hungry a day in their life and then charged poor people to come and worship god at the temple and what did jesus do he overthrew he overthrew the tables at the temple that overcharged people and he said my house is called a house of prayer for all people jesus didn't hang out with the rich he didn't hang out with the elite he hung out with the poor and he was a threat to the powers that be why jesus didn't say come to me if you're a kardashian he said come to me all who are weary and heavy burdened and i will give you rest jesus was a preacher to all people and thank god some rich people like nicodemus got it and some rich people like the rich young ruler almost got it but jesus was a threat to the power structure of the time and so they killed him and let me just be honest some of you guys you are more interested in politics than you are in preaching the gospel we remember the crucifixion to bring us back to reality no government will be perfect until it rests upon his shoulders matthew 23 20 says this now the chief priests and the elders listen this they persuaded the crowd to ask for barabbas and to destroy jesus and listen to me my friends whether you're liberal or conservative many of you have been persuaded to pick barabbas because they use your emotions they use your triggers they use you most politics are poisoned to believers and some of you guys are so passionate oh man the democrats are running the earth oh they're republicans oh my gosh you should read my emails it's unbelievable but i want you to listen to what the gospel of mark says about the crucifixion listen to me my political activists mark 15 27 and with him they crucified two robbers one on his right and the other on his left jesus died for both jesus died for both we have to preach christ crucified because i don't care who's in the white house they're a lousy savior jesus wants to know is he in your house and some of you nod your heads but if you ask jesus he's like no i don't think so when i was a young christian i used to go to this this huge evangelistic event called a crusade and in almost every one of these there would be a verse and it says behold i stand at the door and knock if anyone invites me i will come and eat with him and him with me and we used as as an invitation listen to me to bring people to christ when the actual verse in revelation is to a church it's to a church and jesus is actually saying hey christians i'd love to be a part of your church service if you just let me in it has nothing to do with salvation it has everything to do with sanctification the process of us actually becoming like christ next emotionally manipulated people put jesus on the cross man isn't it easy to get worked up it's easy man oh my gosh i think we're all on the edge a little bit right i mean some of you if there was any cracks in your psychosis covet has brought it out amen like if you were gonna go crazy you've gone you've gone over the edge and we are all ready to be emotionally manipulated because we're emotional listen to this the governor again said to them the governor okay that this atheist secular cultic governor named pontius pilate he's the reasonable dude and by the way what we know about history is he's psychotic so the psychotic guy is the most reasonable person in the group the governor said to them which of the two do you want me to release to you and they said barabbas and pilate said to them then what am i going to do with this guy who's called christ what happened they said let him be crucified and he said an occultic psychotic non-believing leader why you know why because they went crazy they went crazy and so many of you you've gone crazy so many of you you know you you attack sandals church i can't believe pastor matt says this or did that and then you wonder why your kids leave the church because in your psychosis in your emotional rant you tear down the very thing god gave you to build you up and just so you know these are all supposed believers these are men who have devoted their life to following god and they're demanding that god's son be killed and they all said to him let it be crucified he said why what evil has he done and so they just shouted all the more let him be crucified you see when i allow myself to become emotionally driven i will morally compromise let me tell you every i don't care how stable your marriage is you give into emotion you can walk away from the god's greatest blessing in your life listen to me singles god bless you i love you jesus was single he knows what it's like some of you when you get overly emotional you're willing to morally compromise because in that moment you don't want to be alone you give yourself permission to violate the very ethical code god has blessed you with right when we get overly emotional we say things we wish we didn't say we do things we wish we wouldn't have done that's what happens proverbs 12 15 says this the way of a fool seems right in his own eyes when i've gotten overly emotional i've said things to my wife that i really believed in the moment and then they came out and i was like oh that was bad that was bad and wives have management memories like elephants i don't actually know if that's true that elephants have good memories but my wife never forgets never forgets so i gotta be really careful about what comes out because i can't remember it five minutes after i said it listen to this some of you are praying about a tattoo here's my one for you and let's put it on your forehead philippians 4 5 let your your reasonable your reasonableness be known to everyone who's yours let me just ask you a question do you see an overwhelming majority of people that are reasonable i mean it's why i hope to god my fate is never determined by fellow jurors because i've been to jury duty anybody else been in jury duty and i'm like i don't want these knuckleheads deciding my fate it's scary listen let your reasonableness be known and here's the thing you know why we're not reasonable it's not popular to be reasonable it's popular right now to be emotional crazy and to simply echo what everybody in your group thinks what do you think would have happened to the person in the crowd that says should we kill jesus what what do you think would happen to him what would happen to her you see that's why we have to be known for being reasonable next leaders motivated by self-interest put jesus on the cross look not all political leaders are bad just most of them and if you're a political leader watching this probably you too anybody know where the president of afghanistan is somewhere with lots of money for the rest of his life while his people die politicians are motivated by self-interest politicians oftentimes are motivated by what do people think like can we just get rid of this can we just stop asking what random americans think i don't care what random joe thinks okay random joe's gift from god is to flip burgers and if you flip burgers god bless you i'll accept your tithe i love you i flip burgers it's a great job but if that's your max level of critical thinking i don't know that i want you know your opinion i just don't understand this here's what i want i want leaders who do what's who do what's right i want leaders who are reasonable who can think through things and here's what happens in our culture we constantly call the other side evil no matter what and we react to what we're afraid might happen rather than actually dealing with what is happening people ask me pastor matt why don't you run for politics why would you ever want to curse me with that i mean why would you want me to be in the public eye you know for somebody in junior high that i can't even remember well he said this on the way home from school okay i have no idea i have no idea and i don't know if you know this but i talk for a living and what that means is at some point in time i said something really stupid and it'll be everywhere everywhere matthew 28 18 for he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up they really didn't want to kill jesus they just really wanted to be in power and he was a threat to their position he was a threat next we remember the crucifixion and this is huge right now i know a lot of you are going through difficulties through challenges through struggles i'm praying for you some of you are sick with covid right now you're you're still recovering from kovid you have long covered we remember the crucifixion to help us embrace suffering here's what every modern-day christian thinks god's role is to keep you from ever suffering or hurting or getting sick or dying listen the crucifixion reminds us that even jesus suffered god's one and only son so they're going to be some days where you suffer there's going to be some days where things are hard and some of you you lose your faith as soon as things get tough because you never understood the point of remembering the crucifixion first peter 2 19 says this for this is a gracious thing this is a gracious thing when mindful of god one endures sorrow while suffering unjustly did you did you hear that verse for this is a gracious thing anybody ever like praise god for the flu praise god for cancer no no you're never going to say that and if you do say that you're lying to yourself others and god but listen this for this is a gracious thing when we're mindful of god one endures sorrow while suffering unjustly the worst suffering on earth is when suffering feels unfair didn't feel fair when i'm suffering from kovid meanwhile my son's down in a two-liter of dr pepper eating you know doritos you know and i'm drinking kale shakes do you know how bad that tastes my dog my dog will not drink a kale shake she's like i have standards i drink kale shakes to stay healthy covets working me i'm like lord jesus christ you probably never drank a kale shake and he's like no i know i know how it tastes i made kale it feels unfair doesn't it and that's that's what happens to us it feels unfair it doesn't feel right i don't know why this happened to me i hear people say this all the time i don't deserve this let me ask you this question did jesus deserve the cross sometimes stuff happens that we can't explain and we don't understand and if if you run that out you're gonna run away from your faith you're gonna get mad at god because we're never gonna know why my kid got sick why my kid died why my marriage failed why my spouse lied and cheated we didn't get a choice in that but we do have a choice to continue to trust god in the midst of our suffering you say oh but pastor my friends abandoned me so did the lord jesus's so did the lord jesus oh but i prayed for my friends i was there for them jesus was there for peter peter bailed oh but i asked my friends to be for there for me jesus asked the disciples to be there for him he said guys i've poured into you i've invested in you i've given you three years of my life and they couldn't even pray and they fell asleep let me just say this the things in life that i begged god to take away have ended up being the very things i needed listen to this to ultimately for me to find my way and i know some of you are young and your parents lied to you and they blocked and tackled for you so that you never suffered and life has punched you in the face that ultimately may be the very thing you need so that you can come face to face with god second timothy 1 8 says this therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our lord nor of me his prisoner but share in the suffering for the gospel how do we do it by the power of god that's why the apostle paul said when i'm weak then i'm strong man if it wasn't for suffering many of you would have never come to church you would have never found your faith and jesus christ would have never saved your soul praise god for whatever ruined you because that's probably the very thing that jesus used to save you next we remember the crucifixion because it was necessary to set us free you see this is where christianity differs from my jewish friends and my muslim friends the muslim faith doesn't understand how god could could kill his anointed my jewish friends don't understand how anyone righteous could be cursed on a tree i want you to know that it was necessary to set you free matthew 27 21 says this which of the two do you want me to release to you and they said listen to this barabbas barabbas did you know that barabbas name is in all four gospels his name occurs in matthew his name occurs in mark his name occurs in luke his name occurs in john barabbas is the most instrumental part of the crucifixion that we are the most ignorant of as christians why is barabbas mentioned in matthew why is barabbas mentioned in mark why is he mentioned in luke why is he mentioned in john why is his name in there on the crucifixion the gospel of matthew calls barabbas notorious well-known super famous an incredibly well-known criminal known to all is how you could translate it the gospel of mark calls barabbas a murderer he had killed people the gospel of john depending on the translation calls him a robber and or a thief the gospel of luke hold on to hold on liberals trigger word the gospel of luke calls him an insurrectionist why on earth is barabbas so intimately tied to the crucifixion story and here's the answer because you're barabbas i'm barabbas we're all barabbas we're all murderers i never killed anybody your sins killed jesus never stolen anything you steal your time and your talents and your money from god every day i'm not an insurrectionist you say my kingdom god that's why you're mad at him all the time because he doesn't answer or bow to you you say i'm not notorious oh but you are known by god and he knows you intimately who is barabbas in hebrew bara's son abbas is abba jesus christ was the son of god was crucified so that the sons of the father could be set free jesus christ died to set you and me free john 8 31-35 says this so jesus said to the jews who had believed in him if you abide in my word listen this and you are truly my disciples you will know the truth and the truth will set you free so what on earth is the truth that needs to set you free listen to me some of you have called yourself christians your entire life listen to john 8 32 he said to those who believed in him he's telling believers you're missing something what is the truth that will set you free here's the truth you were a sinner separated from god and if you're muslim trying to follow all of the lies all of now excuse me follow all of the laws of islam will not set you free if you're jewish meticulously and religiously following the law of the torah will not set you free only the son can set you free because someone had to die to set you free they said we're the offspring of abraham listen we have never been enslaved to anyone that's not actually true how is it that you say you will become free and jesus answered them truly truly i say to you everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin the slave does not remain in the house forever the son remains forever so if the sun sets you free listen this you will be free indeed jesus christ is inviting you out of slavery into sonship jesus christ died on the cross to set barabbas sons of the father free and on the crucifixion on the day that christ suffered the very thing that can happen for all of us can happen for you and for me the crowd cried set barabbas free you need to cry out to jesus set me free set me free from the power of sin set me free from the power of darkness set me free from the power of myself and jesus says he'll set you free that's why we remember the crucifixion because it's the bloody moment where god kills the sinful barabbas in us so that we can become the sons and daughters that he's always called us to be so that when we invite jesus into our hearts listen this we can cry out abba father have mercy on me we need to remember the crucifixion in just a minute we're going to share in the lord's supper your campus pastors are going to lead you through that but i just want you to prepare your hearts and say god help me to take my attention and my focus of politics of my life off the world of everything going on around me and let me look at my heart let me examine myself and jesus set me free from so much of this stress anxiety and worry because i want to be a free indeed let me pray for you god bless you i love you guys heavenly father we pray in the mighty powerful name of jesus that we would be set free today from worry anxiety and fear and we would remind ourselves of the power and the beauty of the cross god preach jesus crucified to ourselves and remind us that we are not just sinners separated from god but that we are deeply loved sinners who have been set free by the blood and death of jesus christ we pray this in his name amen i am so glad that pastor matt speaks truth no matter what you believe the truth is jesus did die on the cross we believe that he died for me for us for you before we receive communion i want to ask you is jesus in your house he has set you free first corinthians 11 24 tells us that before we take communion that we actually should examine ourselves before we eat of the bread and drink of the cup if you have asked jesus into your life take time right now to examine where your heart is what is not right inside of you or that you need to ask for forgiveness for or what sins have you made what needs to be changed before you move on think through these things if you have not asked jesus into your heart maybe today can be your first communion take time right now out loud to pray and ask god to come into your life and acknowledge that that you are a sinner and that jesus who is the son of god died for you rose again and now offers you eternal life [Music] first corinthians 11 24 and 26 says and when jesus had given thanks for the bread he broke it and said this is my body which is for you do this in remembrance of me eat in the same way after supper he took the cup [Music] and he said this is the new covenant in my blood do this whenever you think of me do it in remembrance of me this is a cup of the lord drink and when you do you proclaim the lord's death until he comes drink lord thank you so much for this moment thank you so much for your sacrifice on the cross if it had not been for your sacrifice father which you did not deserve which we deserved lord we would be lost and we would have no way of being in relationship with you father thank you so much for dying on the cross for me for them for us in jesus name amen if this was your first communion we want to know you can do that and let us know by going to saintelchurch.com next earlier we talked about who is your one one of the ways you can discover who your one is is by inviting that one person into a group with you if you are not part of a group where people can can know you and where you can know others then i gotta tell you like like pastor matt said you are lying to yourself god and others inviting people into your life helps you to be real with yourself god and others i'm telling when i'm alone by myself i i never do good almost all the time but when i have others around me man can they steer me and help me and hold me accountable to where i need to be if you want to become a sandals church anywhere and invite that one or maybe people that you know to live life together with you then this is your opportunity maybe you want to be one of our online viewers who starts an online group an online virtual group with people all over the world hey thanks so much for joining us today and remember this week find out think about pray about who is your one and invite them to church either send them a link of the service or invite them to your home you're not going to want to miss it i'm telling you they are not going to want to miss out on this next series i hope to see you next week

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Published: Sat Sep 04 2021