Good Friday 2025: He Chose the Cross

GOOD FRIDAY

April 18, 2025

HE CHOSE THE CROSS

Mark 15:16-39

 

((6:30PM))Good Evening:

 

As we begin: Message Outline Notes…

 

 

INTRODUCTION:

John 3:16-17 (NIV) “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,that whoever believes in himshall not perish but have eternal life. For Goddid not send his Son into the worldto condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”

 

 

Jesus the Cross!

 

 

 

 

 

TEXT:

Mark 15:16-39 (NIV) ¹⁶ The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called together the whole company of soldiers.¹⁷ They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him.¹⁸ And they began to call out to him, “Hail, king of the Jews!”¹⁹ Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him.²⁰ And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.

²¹ A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross.²² They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”).²³ Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.²⁴ And they crucified him. Dividing up his clothes, they cast lots to see what each would get.

²⁵ It was nine in the morning when they crucified him.²⁶ The written notice of the charge against him read: the king of the jews.

²⁷ They crucified two rebels with him, one on his right and one on his left. ²⁹ Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days,³⁰ come down from the cross and save yourself!”³¹ In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself!³² Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.

³³ At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.³⁴ And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).

³⁵ When some of those standing near heard this, they said, “Listen, he’s calling Elijah.”

³⁶ Someone ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. “Now leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah comes to take him down,” he said.

³⁷ With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.

³⁸ The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.³⁹ And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died,he said, “Surely this man was the Son of God!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three elements of the to notice:

 

1. THE

 

 

Mark 15:16-20 (NIV) The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called together the whole company of soldiers.¹⁷ They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him.¹⁸ And they began to call out to him, “Hail, king of the Jews!”¹⁹ Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him.²⁰ And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.

 

 

 

 

Isaiah 50:6 (NLT)“I offered my back to those who beat me and… I did not hide my face from mockery and spitting”

 

 

 

 

2. THE

 

Mark 15:24 (NIV)And they crucified him.(NLT)Then the soldiers nailed him to the cross.

 

 

 

 

Colossians 2:13-14 (TLB)He [Jesus] forgave all your sins, and blotted out the charges proved against you, the list of his commandments which you had not obeyed. He took this list of sins and destroyed it by nailing it to Christ’s cross.

 

 

 

 

3.  THE

 

Mark 15:26 (NIV)The written notice of the charge against him read: the king of the jews.

 

 

 

 

John 19:19-20 (NIV)¹⁹ Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews.²⁰ Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.

 

 

 

 

Philippians 2:9-11 (NLT)“God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord”

 

 

 

 

Luke 23:42 (NIV)Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.

 

 

 

 

 

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